Profiles

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Rachel Y

Rachel Y is the research officer and the professional and educational manager for a national radiography professional body. She draws on her experience of being a research radiographer and of completing doctoral study to support other radiographers.

  • Background

    Rachel Y is a research officer and professional and educational manager. She is married. Her ethnic background is White English.

  • Age at interview 53
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Barbara

    Barbara is a research nurse and trial coordinator, and has been working in research for 18 years. She is planning to retire in a few months and is in the process of preparing to hand over her roles for ongoing studies.

  • Background

    Barbara is a research nurse and trial coordinator. She is married and has four adult children. Her ethnic background is White American.

  • Age at interview 64
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Libby

    Libby is a research physiotherapist. She enjoys the patient contact aspect of her role and how her research activities will hopefully help in the long run. She encourages more allied health professionals to consider pursuing research roles.

  • Background

    Libby is a research physiotherapist. She is single. Her ethnic background is White Welsh.

  • Age at interview 45
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Katherine

    Katherine is a speech and language therapy researcher. She is undertaking a PhD part-time and has a role developing the research culture in her Trust. She would like there to be more opportunities and support available for clinical academic careers.

  • Background

    Katherine is a speech and language therapy researcher. She is married and has three children aged 9, 6 and 2 years. Her ethnic background is White British.

  • Age at interview 38
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Abi

    Abi is a speech and language therapy researcher. She likes being able to actually utilise some of the clinical skills [‚] that I wasn't always able to exercise in a real world clinical setting and that she is adding to her discipline's research culture.

  • Background

    Abi is a speech and language therapy researcher. Her ethnic background is White English.

  • Age at interview 37
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Gavin

    Gavin is a podiatry researcher. He carefully splits his time between clinical work and undertaking a PhD. He sees his PhD as a process of developing research skills which he can then utilise in his own profession, thus building podiatry's research capacity.

  • Background

    Gavin is a podiatry researcher. He is married and has three children. His ethnic background is White Scottish.

  • Age at interview 42
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Melanie

    Melanie is a lead research nurse in dermatology. When she started in her first research nurse post seven years ago, it was both exciting and a bit tricky. She had to do a lot of learning on the job and teaching myself about the job.

  • Background

    Melanie is a research nurse. She is married and has children. Her ethnic background is White British.

  • Age at interview 43
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Laura Y

    Laura Y has been a research nurse for about four months. She likes that her job involves working to improve things and the working hours are much better than before. Laura Y hopes to continue in research and that her fixed-term contract will be extended.

  • Background

    Laura Y is a research nurse. She is in a relationship. Her ethnic background is White Italian.

  • Age at interview 39
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Nikki

    Nikki is a research physiotherapist working in critical care and peri-operative medicine. She continues to work one day a month clinically, which she sees as beneficial for maintaining her skills and fostering the research culture amongst colleagues.

  • Background

    Nikki is a research physiotherapist. She is in a relationship. Her ethnic background is White English.

  • Age at interview 34
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Jisha

    Jisha is a research nurse and team leader in a neurology department. She really struggled for the first six months or so. Now that Jisha has been working in research for four years, she feels really proud and confident.

  • Background

    Jisha is a research nurse. She is widowed and has children. Her ethnic background is Indian.

  • Age at interview 39
  • Sex/Gender Female