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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.
Libby is a research physiotherapist. She is single. Her ethnic background is White Welsh.
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.
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.
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.
Abi is a speech and language therapy researcher. Her ethnic background is White English.
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.
Gavin is a podiatry researcher. He is married and has three children. His ethnic background is White Scottish.
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.
Melanie is a research nurse. She is married and has children. Her ethnic background is White British.
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.
Laura Y is a research nurse. She is in a relationship. Her ethnic background is White Italian.
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.
Nikki is a research physiotherapist. She is in a relationship. Her ethnic background is White English.
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.
Jisha is a research nurse. She is widowed and has children. Her ethnic background is Indian.
Sugrah is a clinical research nurse coordinator. She has been in research for six years and continues to do bank shifts. She feels there is a lot of encouragement as well as opportunities in her unit to continue developing research experience.
Sugrah is a clinical research nurse coordinator. She is single. Her ethnic background is British Pakistani.
Julie is a nurse researcher working in the area of paediatric intensive care. She has been in her current post for 10 years, during which time Julie has undertaken a PhD. Her role has evolved from research delivery to include managerial aspects, independent research and research capacity building.
Julie is a nurse researcher. She is in a relationship and has children. Her ethnic background is White British.
