Current Research Projects
- A stepped-wedge, multi-method evaluation of two nursing team initiatives to improve patient care for acute, in-patient adults in NHS Tayside. Improving Patient Experience of Care Study (IPEC Study)
- Mobilising knowledge to improve UK health care: learning from other countries and other sectors
- Exploring the job role of Heads of Nursing in NHS Tayside
- Arts based creative engagement intervention for people after stroke: a feasibility trial
- Domestic violence and disability
- Use of patient-reported outcomes (PROMS) by people with low literacy and/or learning disabilities
- Measuring outcomes in community-based stroke rehabilitation: enhancing inclusion and participation
- Evaluation of the Stobswell equally well pilot site
- Mixed ethnographic and quantitative methods to understand and measure organisational culture in UK general practice
- What scope is there to improve the use of patient experience feedback data for quality improvement in primary care?
- Evaluation of the workplace health coaching programme
Completed Research Projects
- Philosophy and the quality of health care: Conceptualising the co-creation of health
- Exploring barriers and facilitators to maintaining engagement in physical activities after the end of post-stroke rehabilitation: a qualitative study of stroke survivors, caregivers and stroke physiotherapists
- Working after cancer: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies exploring experience, problems and strategies in relation to employment and return to work
- Determining the impact of the senior charge nurse review
- Evaluation of hearty lives Dundee
- Extending the assessment of patient centerdness in health care in Tayside
- How is patient centred care affected by giving woman the opportunity to write in hand-held healthcare notes
- Valuing Patient Experience
- Mapping the healthcare improvement research needs of Scottish healthcare managers
- Infant feeding plans from late pregnancy to 16 weeks after delivery: Exploring the demographic, clinical and psychological predictors
- Scottish Clinical Interactions Project (SCIP)
- Delivering health care through managed clinical networks (MCNs): lessons from the North
- Genetic health in the 21st century (21CGH) – building the infrastructure, developing the science, enhancing the knowledge base, engaging the public
- Household face-to-face survey of home-held antibiotics and awareness of good antibiotic use
- The longitudinal studies centre – Scotland and the establishment of the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS)
- The UK data audit
- The provision of geographical data in longitudinal data sets
- Examining attendance in primary care for diabetic retinopathy screening in Tayside
- An exploration of reasons for low physical activity levels among children with moderate to severe asthma: informing the development of new interventions
- Patients’ understanding, preferences and decision-making strategies for lipid-lowering and antihypertensive medication
- Managing postoperative pain in adults: the role of acute pain services in the UK
- The utilisation of research evidence in the Scottish national mental health policy making process
- Organisational culture in Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs)
- Interprofessional relationships at work
- The mental health (care and treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003: Developing a research programme to investigate its introduction and impact
- The learning practice: Learning organisations in primary care
- Managing to implement evidence-based practice in nursing?
- Learning organisations in primary care practices
- Examining the cross-sample validity of the Intensive Care Questionnaire (ICEQ) between two independent critical care settings
- Randomised controlled trial comparing a self-help cognitive behavioural programme, the Angina Plan, with standard care for angina patients admitted to hospital
- Changing lifestyle in children – All Change: Can this reduce cardiovascular risk?
- Healthcare professionals review
