Improving our health by translating research evidence into local NHS practice
DISSEMINATION EVENT 28TH - 29th MARCH 2012
USING SOCIOLOGY TO HELP PREVENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Keynote Speakers
Professor Anne Rogers
Anne Rogers is Professor of the Sociology of Health Care at the University of Manchester. Her research interests lie in a programme of work drawing on the sociology of health care, mental health and most recently social networks, relationships and personal (self) long term condition management. Her recent research which includes applied research with the greater Manchester CLAHRC where her interests include a focus on the 'work' that patients undertake in the area of long term condition management and addressing how social position, networks, relationships and illness work undertaken in domestic settings connect to accessing resources in local communities and health services to support living with long term condition management.
Dr Charlie Davison
Charlie Davison is a Medical Anthropologist and independent healthcare development consultant based in Colchester, Essex. His specialist areas are public engagement, patient experience, healthcare research design and research methods training. At present much of Charlie’s work is based around the cultural changes needed to implement the headline NHS policies of patient choice, public and community involvement, world-class commissioning and the integration of patient experience into healthcare provision and evaluation.
Dr Sabi Redwood
Sabi Redwood is a Research Fellow in Medical Sociology working in applied health research on the NIHR Birmingham and Black Country Collaborations in Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). She is the CLAHRC academic lead for Patient and Public Involvement. She works in the field of medical sociology and uses predominantly qualitative research methods. She has specific responsibilities for the research and evaluation themes on the implementation of effective community care for diabetes, improving patient safety through studying an evolving information technology system, and the evaluation of paediatric outreach services.
As part of her role, she is exploring the use of a variety of methods to engage those whose voices are seldom heard in applied health research, such as women from the South Asian and African Caribbean communities who are disproportionately affected by chronic illness. She has a particular interest in developing culturally sensitive ways of facilitating communication between the participants and researchers in order to enhance the usefulness of qualitative methodologies in exploring health needs and how to address them in different groups.
