By Dr Andrew Soundy Chronic low back pain (CLBP) introduces uncertainty around the future, it can challenge hope and requires emotional regulation. Health care professional-patient interactions present critical opportunities to help or hinder this experience. This current study used a social constructivist meta ethnography to understand the interaction. The research evolved across 5 stages and … Continue reading “Dr Andy Soundy and Justine McMillan on an example of a social constructivist meta-enthnography study”
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Annual reviews: Informing the doctorate process
By Professor Barry Drust and Paul Green The doctorate annual review: the supervisors view At Birmingham all post-graduate research students have an annual review. This is a formal requirement at the university. The process involves an evaluation of the progress around an individual’s research training in the past year. In a two-stage process both the … Continue reading “Annual reviews: Informing the doctorate process “