The humanisation of healthcare: A value framework for qualitative research
Page published 1 February 2009
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Health and Social Care is holding its next Open Research Seminar on Wednesday 11 February at 1pm on Royal London House (room 207), Lansdowne. |
The School of Health and Social Care is holding its next Open Research Seminar on Wednesday 11 February at 1pm on Royal London House (room 207), Lansdowne.
The seminar held by Professors Immy Holloway and Kate Galvin will focus on The humanisation of healthcare: A value framework for qualitative research.
The session will explore what we mean by the term 'humanisation of healthcare', providing a conceptual framework for humanising care by offering eight philosophically informed dimensions that are relevant to a conceptualisation of humanisation. The pair will illustrate each humanising dimension by drawing on findings from qualitative research studies.
Together these eight dimensions form a framework that can inform a comprehensive value base for considering both the humanising and dehumanising elements in caring systems and interactions. Finally the pair will suggest how such a philosophically informed framework for humanising healthcare can provide a focused agenda for a dedicated and comprehensive research programme.
Biographies
Professor Immy Holloway has been at BU since its inception. Though now retired from full-time work, she still takes an active part-time role in teaching and PhD student supervision and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research. As a medical sociologist she taught health and social care professionals for thirty years and also carried out research. Her speciality is qualitative research. She wrote, edited and co-wrote several books in this field which have been published in several languages and published a large number of articles in peer reviewed journals. Her latest book published in 2008 is A-Z of Qualitative Research in Healthcare. Oxford: Blackwell
Professor Kathleen Galvin is a nurse, Chair in Health Research and Deputy Dean Research and Enterprise at the School of Health & Social Care. As part of her work with the Centre for Qualitative Research she is particularly interested in using phenomenology to develop insights for caring practice and professional education. Her personal interest is in exploring the potential benefits of poetry for communicating experiences deeply and how this could be used in healthcare and nursing in particular. Her professional interests include how peoples' experiences can guide practice, what research methods can access experiences deeply, how such experiences can be made central in evaluation programmes, professional education and in dissemination of findings.
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