Anita Kaiser is a friend from my years at the University of Toronto. She is getting close to finishing her PhD focused on activity based therapy in spinal cord research. Her journey into research is personal as is her connection to spinal cord research.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Research is always new and exciting

2) If you need to take a break from being a researcher, there are ways to stay connected to the researcher community

3) Personal experiences drive curiosity around possible research ideas

Bio: Anita Kaiser has been living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) for over 25 years. She is a Research Trainee at KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network. She completed a Master of Science degree in Rehabilitation Sciences through the University of Toronto and is currently working towards her doctorate specializing in activity-based therapy. Anita has been Director of Research for the Canadian Spinal Research Organization since 2005 and is also a member of the North American SCI Consortium. Anita has mentored over 80 individuals with SCI through SCI Ontario and has been a strong advocate within the SCI community.

Find Anita on social media:

https://twitter.com/AnitaKaiser9

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-kaiser-vanier-scholar-2121a6165/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh-8mYOps4xNuRCxWL6Mw1Q

SCI Mobility Lab: https://sites.google.com/view/scimoblab

Read Anita's Research:

PHD:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8338546/

* https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/7/e040014.long

* https://www.archives-rrct.org/article/S2590-1095(22)00046-5/fulltext

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638288.2023.2196443

* https://meridian.allenpress.com/tscir/article/29/Supplement/53/496748/Providing-Insights-into-the-Challenges-of

Masters:

* https://www.possibilitiesprojectplus.ca/post/navigating-the-challenges-of-parenthood-with-a-spinal-cord-injury-insights-from-anita-kaiser?utm_campaign=d506e259-634c-4819-bfcc-a02c525ca95c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=d6b6e0c4-ec32-4f29-9735-e5a30b068ae1

* https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11195-011-9238-0

* Book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rrd883

Learn more about activity based therapy:

* https://praxisinstitute.org/research-care/key-initiatives/activity-based-therapy/abt-cop/

* https://praxisinstitute.org/research-care/key-initiatives/activity-based-therapy/spinal-moves-podcast/

Anita is reading:

Both feet in the grave by Jeaniene Frost

Data Visualisation Tool (Open source):

https://app.diagrams.net/

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures @researcherrevealed takes while travelling by checking out her other YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

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Rhys, cardiology pharmacist, joined me to discuss how he has incorporated research into his clinical role. He shares how he got introduced to research and how it is currently shaping both his role and his clinical interactions. We talk all about real-world evaluation.

Top 3 takeaways

1) Real world evaluation as reporting on how evidence-based treatments or interventions work in people who get excluded from research studies.

2) Research delivery in large research studies and a training ground and inspiration for becoming a driver research design.

3) No data is bad data, even if you do not prove your hypothesis, you still add to the knowledge base

Bio:

Rhys is a specialist clinical pharmacist who is a cardiology independent prescriber in Wales at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend. After his introduction to research (Ferric Derisomaltose in HF) he has become active in multiple real-world evaluations and research projects. In addition to his interest in the management and practice-based research in Heart Failure, he also works to promote the benefits and the role of a specialist pharmacists within multi-disciplinary teams.

Find Rhys

X (twitter): @RhysWMPharm https://twitter.com/RhysWMPharm

Rhys is reading:

Burn: The misunderstood science of metabolism by Herman Pontzer

Rhys’ Research:

https://academic.oup.com/ehjcr/article/5/8/ytab281/6352634?login=false

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures @researcherrevealed takes while travelling by checking out her second YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

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Emma Lane joined me in person for a special Christmas episode. In addition to sharing her research journey she also shared her Christmas wish list as a PhD. From “accidently” becoming a cardiac Physiologist to her stubbornness in pursuing her development to become a researcher, Her journey is filled with inspiring moments, an interesting perspective on who makes good researchers and of course all she wants for Christmas!

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Ask why, be curious when faced with anything you wonder about.

2) Expand knowledge, look for ways to take what we do know into places where we do not know.

3) Have moxie; the energy and persistence to go after what you want.

Bio: Emma has worked in NHS for 25yrs in variety of roles but settled in cardiology in 2005 after too many times at university. She works as a Senior Cardiac Physiologist. Currently she works part time as a cardiac scientist specialising in echocardiography and stress echocardiography at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. She is also a honorary senior lecturer for University of Portsmouth and heavily involved as a trainer, mentor and supervisor for the training of medics in focussed ultrasound. Emma is in the final year of a part time PhD at the University of Portsmouth. Her PhD research is focused on the use of echo for detecting and predicting heart failure in ICU pts with sepsis or septic shock. Her study is called GlassHeart and she plans on publishing the results related to this work after her PhD is completed.

Find Emma on social media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/em_echo

Read Emma’s Research:

Her research is in the analysis stage, follow her on social media for updates related her research and her journey.

https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/glassheart-study/

https://echo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1530/ERP-19-0056

Emma listens to:

Play in a time lapse (deluxe edition) by Ludovico Einaudi on Amazon Music

https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B00GAMVRQ8?trackAsin=B00GAMW17W&do=play&ref=dm_sh_d18PkgesQzI12oWFHrhavDPna

Emma is reading:

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures @researcherrevealed takes while travelling by checking out her other YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

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Professor Alison Pilnick, from Manchester Metropolitan University, discusses her award-winning book, “Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and abandonment”. As well as sharing her journey into research and she gives Masterclass on Conversation Analysis.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Opportunity: Be open to the journey that research might take you on

2) Consider what is the actual evidence base, do a deep dive into the robustness of the evidence guiding policy and pathways in healthcare services

3) Complex methods are like riding a bike, hard to explain but easier once you get stuck in. Access resources to support your learning around a given research method.

Bio: Alison Pilnick is the Professor of Language, Medicine and Society in the Faculty of Health and Education at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a sociologist of health and illness with a specific interest in communication between professionals and their patients and clients in health and social care. She has worked with a wide range of professionals across a diverse range of care settings both in the UK and overseas, using audio and video recordings to examine interactions and to inform and develop communication skills training. She has published 4 books and over 60 journal articles. Her most recent book, ‘Reconsidering patient centred care: between autonomy and abandonment’ was published in 2022 and draws on the work she carried out during a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship. The book was awarded the 2023 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness prize. Alison was selected as an Academy of Medical Sciences Future Leader in Innovation, Enterprise and Research in 2020-21.

Find Alison on social media:

Twitter: @AlisonPilnick

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alison-pilnick-438a8b5b/

Read Alison’s Research:

‘Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment’:  https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/210514129/reconsidering-patient-centred-care/alison-pilnick/  *use code EME30 for 30% discount.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hex.13834

What Alison read recently:

The Urban Brain https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178608/the-urban-brain

Explaining mental Illness https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/explaining-mental-illness

Sickening https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening

More resources about conversation analysis:

https://learn.lboro.ac.uk/ludata/cx/ca-tutorials/intro1.htm

https://emcawiki.net/Main_Page

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On Episode 5 of Researcher Revealed:

Associate Professor Lindsey Cherry joins Dr Rosalynn Austin to talk all about mentorship. Lindsey was requested as both a guest for the podcast and to focus on the topic of mentorship by the listeners.

Top 3 takeaways

1) Mentorship is a combination of asking probing questions together with expert advice. It is the art of showing you the art of the possible

2) The value interdisciplinary mentorship to reframe for perspective.

3) Research is for anyone who has a gripe or a complaint! Be brave and reach out to researchers to help you with your gripe or move to an environment where you will get the support to explore your gripe.

Bio:

Lindsey is Associate Professor of Personalised Care at the University of Southampton and Education Environment Lead for Central Southampton Primary Care Network. Lindsey completed her PhD in 2012 in the epidemiology of rheumatic foot disease and has since remained an active clinical academic Podiatrist, authoring several textbook chapters, national and international policy briefs, clinical guidelines, or best practice guides and publishing over 50 peer reviewed papers. Lindsey has been lead or co-applicant for over £5million research funding and leads a programme of research focussed upon supporting personalised care for people to live well with long term conditions.

She leads the personalised care research programme within LTC group at Soton; this is about putting the person at the centre of their health care. There has been massive changes to UK policy & workforce transformation that support this type of care, however this is against a backdrop of service pressure and efficiency drivers. Mentorship has been an important pillar of workforce transformation (experienced personally and relevant at scale) and will be vital with likely future reform.

Lindsey is reading:

This Child of Mine, by Emma Claire Wilson

Find Lindsey:

X (Twitter): @cherry_linds

Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x5gvy/doctor-lindsey-cherry

Read some of Lindsey’s Research:

https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/61/10/3907/6619581?login=false

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00296-022-05236-8

https://jfootankleres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13047-021-00486-4

The content in this podcast are the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Assistant professor Lindsey Cherry) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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On today's episode, Dr Lindsay Welch (Ph.D. RN) joined me to share the lessons she's learned along her research journey.

Top 3 takeaways:

1. Your research is a bigger journey than just you!

2. Grow an expertise ribbon through your career, but always explore new ideas, thoughts, and areas that will enrich your career

3. Identify your skills and collaborate with others who fill gaps or complement your expertise to help raise your game

Lindsay is currently working for the Health Innovation Wessex as the programme manager leading on NHS England Health Inequalities Programmes.

During her time at the University of Southampton, her research centred around digital disadvantage, developing, and testing ubiquitous technology designed for people with respiratory conditions. She is currently collaborating with the UOS Malysia Engineering school to develop AI acoustic sounds using chest wall microphones.

Lindsay has taught adult nursing, with a focus on marginalised populations and public health and population statistics. She has worked as community respiratory nurse, leading community long term conditions services in the Wessex region. During this time Lindsay adapted services and promoted innovative ways of working, including embedding singing in respiratory services.

Lindsay is passionate about capturing the voice of the people, and often those voice that are seldom heard. Her clinical interest is focused on people with long-term respiratory disease (COPD) in digital implementation, human and computer interactions, and accessibility in innovations and digital design.

Lindsay will start a clinical academic post with University Hospital Dorset (Poole and Bournemouth, and with Bournemouth University) in November 2023, to build research capacity through nursing leadership within the trust.

What Lindsay listens to

Binaural beats: focus music – Alpha waves

Spotifiy https://open.spotify.com/artist/0rV884TJaWtmnJf392FG6e

What Lindsay is reading

1) Qualitative Analysis: Eight approached for the social sciences

Edited by Margaretha Jarvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer

2) Inventing ourselves: The secret life of the teenage brain

By Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Find Lindsay

Twitter (X): @LindsayICOPD

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-lindsay-welch-a0146991/

https://wessexahsn.org.uk/meet-the-people/141/lindsay-welch

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lindsay-Welch-3

https://respiratoryresearch.wordpress.com/

Papers and Research

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-frontline-nurses-did-not-receive-the-mental-health-support-they-deserved-166377

Google Scholar publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=JzfsTNYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Recent Book contribution

https://www.routledge.com/Foundations-for-21st-Century-Health-and-Social-Care-Theory-and-Practice/Arai/p/book/9781032056005

(Chapter 8: Caring for people with long-term conditions and multimorbidity: A health and social care perspective)

The content in this podcast are the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Dr Lindsay Welch) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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Professor Ian Jones, made the time for a quick conversation with me while we were both attending the recent British Association for Nurses in Cardiovascular Care (BANCC) conference. This was the first episode I tried to capture in the “wild”. Unfortuanately the video stopped recording after thei first minute.

Ian is a Professor of Nursing and Allied Health at Liverpool John Moores University. In addition to his teaching roles he also leads on multiple research studies where his passion is in bringing research into the community to build better health for all.

Find Ian

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfIanJones

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-jones-72634330/?originalSubdomain=uk

Bio: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-health/nursing-and-allied-health/ian-jones

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian-Jones-16

BBC News Article about shopping trolley research study

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65983627

What Professor Ian Jones is reading now:

Backbone of the Nation: Mining communities and the Great Strike of 1984-1985 by Robert Gildea

Top 3 take aways from our conversation:

1) Take health and research into the people you wish to serve

2) Embed research into local communities

3) Health and research are complex. Don’t try and do it all in any single piece of work. Instead build communities and a program of work through wide ranging networks.

The content in this podcast are the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Professor Ian Jones) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

Apologies for the variable sound levels. First podcast in the wild and I am still learning. I hope you still enjoy it.

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Faye Forsyth joined me and together we explored her journey into research from clinical nurse to research nurse, to nurse researcher currently completing a PhD at Cambridge. Her research is focused on the experiences of people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Faye’s Bio

Faye qualitied as a nurse in 2008 and worked in General Medicine before moving into a Research Nurse role. Since then, she has worked on multiple studies across various disciplines including traumatic brain injury and latterly, heart failure. After 4 years of research in HFpEF within the Clinical Nursing Research Group at the University of Cambridge, Faye registered as a part-time PhD student to pursue her own research.

Faye's PhD focusses on patient experiences in HFpEF and evidence for lifestyle change. Throughout her PhD projects, Faye has worked closely with the patients in her studies and encouraged them to participate within her research. As a result of this, Faye has become an advocate for patient involvement in research and she drives this agenda in her role as co-chair of the Association of Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Professions (ACNAP) Advocacy Committee.

Since relocating to Luxembourg in 2020, Faye has sought to build collaborations in Central Europe. She regularly attends and has provided research training for the Network Clinical Nursing Science Luxembourg; part of the 'Association Nationale des Infirmières et Infirmiers du Luxembourg' (ANIL). She is actively working with colleagues across the region to encourage more nurses to engage in research and to promote advanced nursing roles in research and practice.

Find Faye

Twitter @FayeForsyth

ORCID

Research Gate

Top 3 take aways from our conversation:

1) Exposure to research as a nurse may lead to a career embedded with research.

2) The difference between a nurse researcher and a research nurse.

3) Being a nurse researcher means you get ask research questions that patients you care for need and want answered.

The content in this podcast are the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Faye Forsyth) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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Today on the first Researcher Revealed podcast, early career researcher Sandra Bartolomeu Pires joins me to discuss collaboration.

Sandra's top tips for successful collaboration:

1) Be visible - "you bake a cake to share it"

2) Ask leaders in your field for opportunities - "they'll say yes"

3) Don't say no to opportunities because you are scared - "do it scared"

Sandra is a nurse researcher, currently completing her PhD at the University of Southampton (UK) while working remotely from Portugal. Her research interests are around integrated care and long-term neurological conditions. She graduated from nursing in Portugal in 2010 working first as as staff nurse in long-term care settings. Her patients’ complex needs inspired her to learn more. She completed a self-funded Master’s in Palliative Care in 2014, focused on conducting family meetings in a palliative care context. She emigrated to Southampton, UK where she worked as staff nurse in a medicine ward for a couple of months, before moving into the Research & Development department. From 2015 Sandra worked as research nurse and research sister in diverse studies and clinical trials, developing an expertise in neurodegenerative diseases. She is passionate about supporting people impacted by long term neurological diseases, particularly those affected by Huntington’s Disease. In 2020 she secured an NIHR ARC Wessex PhD scholarship to research the development of an integrated care model for people and families living with Huntington’s Disease. Sandra has recently returned to Portugal, where she is focused on improving outcomes for people affected by Huntington’s Disease by finishing her PhD research with the University of Southampton.

Find Sandra:

Instagram: @integrate_hd

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sandra-bartolomeu-pires-841594190

Twitter: @BartolomeuPires

Collaboration outputs:

Vester, L. B., [...], Bartolomeu, S., & Portillo, M. C. (2023). A Parkinson care-coordinator may make a difference: A scoping review on multi-sectoral integrated care initiatives for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2023.107931

Nielsen, T., [...], Bartolomeu, S.,Portillo, M.C. (2022). Exploring health and social services in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom for the development of Parkinson’s care pathways. A document analysis.

https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13970 3)

Fearn, S., Bartolomeu Pires, S., [...], & Kipps, C. (2021). The Causes and Impact of Crisis for People with Parkinson’s Disease: A Patient and Carer Perspective. https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-212641

Conference

The European Huntington Association Conference in Belgium - Sandra is a part of the European Huntington's Disease Network.

https://eurohuntington.org/eha-conference-in-belgium/

More about Sandra's PhD experience:

"Don't do it"

https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/blogs-1/sandra-bartolomeu-pires

"Life has no respect for GANTT charts"

https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/blog-life-has-no-respect-for-gantt-charts-by-sandra-bartolomeu-pires

**The content in this podcast is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Sandra Bartolomeu Pires) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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In the first episode of this podcast I'm sharing the audio track from a recent presentation I did at the NIHR ARC Wessex Intern celebration. Last year I received a "Researcher Enhancement Award" which is designed to support early career researchers in moving forward in their research careers. You can find out more here: https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/

My award time deviated significantly from my plan! Listen to find out how.

Watch the presentation on the Researcher Revealed YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/CDHJ9Y-jOfg

Read the transcript *coming soon*

Interested in my Research? Check out the papers from my PhD:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/7/e047060.abstract

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ehf2.13904

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jocn.16484

Interested in other research journey's? Read Sandra Bartolomeu Pires' blog about her research journey:

https://www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/news/blog-life-has-no-respect-for-gantt-charts-by-sandra-bartolomeu-pires/

Declaration:

Shared with permission by NIHR ARC Wessex

For entertainment purposes only.

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