Laura Sheard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 208556 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Sheard |
| PRENOMES | Laura |
| SOBRENOME | Sheard |
| ASSINATURA | SHEARD L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9241-8361 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Powerless or Powerful? Healthcare Professionals' Construction of Agency in Patient and Family Engagement Accounts
“It's not bullying if I do it to everyone”
The study aimed to understand NHS healthcare workers’ perceptions of toxic organisational cultures and behaviours, by undertaking an analysis of tweets. The prompt tweet was posted in late 2022 by @DrLindaDykes (a prominent UK physician), inviting healthcare staff to share their experiences of “red flags that indicate you’re probably in a toxic organisation”. A qualitative analysis of response tweets was undertaken, using inductive thematic analy…
Adolescent girls as local active citizens
Parks offer opportunities for adolescent girls to be physically active, yet many are excluded from these spaces, particularly those who are affected by intersecting inequalities. This paper draws from six focus groups with 33 adolescent girls in Bradford, United Kingdom, to explore the relationship between their sense of belonging in their local parks and their engagement with physical activity (PA) in these spaces. Drawing on Yuval-Davis’ sociol…
Intersectional problems, intersectional solutions
Local park-based physical activity (PA) interventions for teenage girls: • Have women PA leaders & teenage girls as Park Ambassadors to – • co-design walking pathway & group walking sessions (combined with intensive PA); • co-deliver park safety training & social media campaign for adolescents. • Informed by intersectional rights to the city & gender-transformative approaches. Parks are important spaces to engage with physical activity (PA) for a…
Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside
Prison has been described as the ultimate form of time-punishment - a place where time is no longer a commodity for individuals to spend, but is ordered by a system which symbolises its power through the control of segments of people's lives. As such, a prison sentence epitomises the experience of waiting. Yet anticipating release is not the only form of waiting within carceral life; waiting for healthcare in its various forms also shapes people'…
I am just a shadow of who I used to be'-Exploring existential loss of identity among people living with chronic conditions of Long Covid
Identity loss and (re)construction forms a central debate in sociology of chronic illness. Living with chronic/persistent health conditions may raise questions about how disruptions can touch upon and further threaten the very roots of existence, by which people reflexively perceive a coherent and stable sense of 'being-in-the-world'. Whilst medical sociologists have shown interest in 'existential loss' in chronic illness, this question remains l…
Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on the delivery and receipt of prison healthcare
“It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”
Compliant citizens, defiant rebels or neither? Exploring change and complexity in Covid‐19 vaccine attitudes and decisions in Bradford, UK
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 vaccines have been the central pillar of the public health response to the pandemic, intended to enable us to 'live with Covid'. It is important to understand change and complexity of COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and decisions to maximize uptake through an empathetic lens. OBJECTIVE: To explore the factors that influenced people's COVID-19 vaccines decisions and how their complex attitudes towards the vaccines had changed in a…
‘I don't know what to do or where to go’. Experiences of accessing healthcare support from the perspectives of people living with Long Covid and healthcare professionals
BACKGROUND: In October 2022, it was estimated 2.3 million people in the United Kingdom have self-reported Long Covid (LC). Many people have reported not receiving adequate healthcare support. There is a lack of research which provides an in-depth exploration of the barriers faced by people with LC in accessing healthcare support. It is important to understand these barriers to provide better support, care and advice for those experiencing LC. OBJ…
A glimpse behind the organisational curtain
Healthcare staff are encouraged to use feedback from their patients to inform service and quality improvement. Receiving patient feedback via online channels is a relatively new phenomenon that has rarely been conceptualised. Further, the implications of a wide, varied and unknown(able) audience being able to view and interact with online patient feedback are yet to be understood. We applied a theoretical lens of dramaturgy to a large ethnographi…
Telling a story or reporting the facts? Interpretation and description in the qualitative analysis of applied health research data
Interpretative analysis of qualitative data has been likened to a form of creative storytelling. However, analysis of qualitative health research data is often subject to concerns derived from quantitative empiricism such as replicability, bias and impartiality. In applied health research, it seems that qualitative portrayals have become dominated by descriptive reporting at the expense of interpretative accounts. I conducted a documentary analys…
Growing up during a public health crisis
For children at the start of their adolescence undergoing change and formation, the experiences and feelings Covid-19 has set in motion will likely have an impact on their mental and cognitive functioning as they develop further. It is important to acknowledge these early adolescent experiences and continue to monitor and provide targeted support to this group of young people
Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention
Logic models feature prominently in intervention research yet there is increasing debate about their ability to express how interventions work in the real-world. ‘Real-world’ logic models are a new proposition which express complex interventions in context. They are designed to help researchers strike a balance between context-sensitivity and scalability. This article explores the utility of real-world logic models in a trial involving a complex …
Doing involvement
CONTEXT: Being involved in one's care is prioritised within UK healthcare policy to improve care quality and safety. However, research suggests that many older people struggle with this. DESIGN: We present focused ethnographic research exploring older peoples' involvement in healthcare from hospital to home. RESULTS: We propose that being involved in care is a dynamic form of labour, which we call 'involvement work' (IW). In hospital, many patien…
Understanding Covid‐19 misinformation and vaccine hesitancy in context
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 vaccines can offer a route out of the pandemic, yet initial research suggests that many are unwilling to be vaccinated. A rise in the spread of misinformation is thought to have played a significant role in vaccine hesitancy. To maximize uptake, it is important to understand why misinformation has been able to take hold at this time and why it may pose a more significant problem within certain contexts. OBJECTIVE: To understa…
Patient experience feedback in UK hospitals
What's the problem with patient experience feedback? A macro and micro understanding, based on findings from a three‐site UK qualitative study
CONTEXT: Collecting feedback from patients about their experiences of health care is an important activity. However, improvement based on this feedback rarely materializes. In this study, we focus on answering the question-"what is impeding the use of patient experience feedback?" METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study in 2016 across three NHS hospital Trusts in the North of England. Focus groups were undertaken with ward-based staff, and hosp…
Improving Patient Experience in Hospital Settings
This article presents a process evaluation of the implementation and refinement of a patient experience toolkit (PET) by action researchers in six hospital wards in the English National Health Service (NHS). An initial assumption that health care professionals (HCPs) would use PET to improve patient experience proved unrealistic due to staff and service pressures. However, the action researchers' facilitation of PET and their support during the i…
The Patient Feedback Response Framework – Understanding why UK hospital staff find it difficult to make improvements based on patient feedback
Patients are increasingly being asked for feedback about their healthcare experiences. However, healthcare staff often find it difficult to act on this feedback in order to make improvements to services. This paper draws upon notions of legitimacy and readiness to develop a conceptual framework (Patient Feedback Response Framework - PFRF) which outlines why staff may find it problematic to respond to patient feedback. A large qualitative study wa…
Anything Could Have Happened
This article explores how 40 women interviewed in the north of England used spaces in the night-time economy and consumed alcohol. The most significant issues were: age of the women, risk and 'luck', drink spiking, and night-time economy spaces themselves. The notion of safety (and strategies for ensuring safety) is illustrated. Palpable fear existed for the women interviewed, related to concerns about unprovoked violence towards them by (male) u…
Methodological Reflections on Closing Qualitative Interviews with Women Drug Users
This article reflects on closing in-depth interviews with women drug users and is based on a grounded theory study conducted with 45 female injectors in two areas of the United Kingdom (UK). In order to bring the interviews to a natural close and to focus the discussion on more positive topics than had been discussed in the main sections of the interview, participants were asked about their plans and hopes for the future. Four methodological issu…
Contradictions and Misperceptions
We report the findings of an in-depth interview study conducted with 45 women injecting drug users in Britain. Women described experiences of injecting themselves and being injected by others, including instances of bodily harm and pain. Cleanliness when injecting was an issue of particular importance. An interesting division ("line of decency") occurred between opinions on sharing needles versus sharing injecting equipment. Partnership dynamics …
Is peer injecting a form of intimate partner abuse? A qualitative study of the experiences of women drug users
Women are over-represented as the recipients of injections of illicit drugs and are often injected by their intimate partners. This study used qualitative research to explore women drug users' experiences of abuse from intimate partners when being injected with illicit drugs. In-depth interviews were conducted with 45 women drug users in the city of Leeds and the area of North Nottinghamshire, UK. The practice of peer injecting illicit drugs plac…
Barriers to accessing generic health and social care services
While research has clearly documented the difficulties injectors encounter in accessing specialist addiction services, there is less evidence of the problems they face when securing general health care and non-substance-misuse-specific support. This paper seeks to fill some of these knowledge gaps. Between January and May 2006, 75 current injectors were recruited and interviewed through three needle exchange programmes located in diverse geograph…
Anything Could Have Happened
This article explores how 40 women interviewed in the north of England used spaces in the night-time economy and consumed alcohol. The most significant issues were: age of the women, risk and 'luck', drink spiking, and night-time economy spaces themselves. The notion of safety (and strategies for ensuring safety) is illustrated. Palpable fear existed for the women interviewed, related to concerns about unprovoked violence towards them by (male) u…
Barriers to accessing generic health and social care services
While research has clearly documented the difficulties injectors encounter in accessing specialist addiction services, there is less evidence of the problems they face when securing general health care and non-substance-misuse-specific support. This paper seeks to fill some of these knowledge gaps. Between January and May 2006, 75 current injectors were recruited and interviewed through three needle exchange programmes located in diverse geograph…
I am just a shadow of who I used to be'-Exploring existential loss of identity among people living with chronic conditions of Long Covid
Identity loss and (re)construction forms a central debate in sociology of chronic illness. Living with chronic/persistent health conditions may raise questions about how disruptions can touch upon and further threaten the very roots of existence, by which people reflexively perceive a coherent and stable sense of 'being-in-the-world'. Whilst medical sociologists have shown interest in 'existential loss' in chronic illness, this question remains l…
The Patient Feedback Response Framework – Understanding why UK hospital staff find it difficult to make improvements based on patient feedback
Patients are increasingly being asked for feedback about their healthcare experiences. However, healthcare staff often find it difficult to act on this feedback in order to make improvements to services. This paper draws upon notions of legitimacy and readiness to develop a conceptual framework (Patient Feedback Response Framework - PFRF) which outlines why staff may find it problematic to respond to patient feedback. A large qualitative study wa…
A glimpse behind the organisational curtain
Healthcare staff are encouraged to use feedback from their patients to inform service and quality improvement. Receiving patient feedback via online channels is a relatively new phenomenon that has rarely been conceptualised. Further, the implications of a wide, varied and unknown(able) audience being able to view and interact with online patient feedback are yet to be understood. We applied a theoretical lens of dramaturgy to a large ethnographi…
Contradictions and Misperceptions
We report the findings of an in-depth interview study conducted with 45 women injecting drug users in Britain. Women described experiences of injecting themselves and being injected by others, including instances of bodily harm and pain. Cleanliness when injecting was an issue of particular importance. An interesting division ("line of decency") occurred between opinions on sharing needles versus sharing injecting equipment. Partnership dynamics …
Associations between migrancy, health and homelessness
There is limited awareness of the link between differing health problems and migrancy of homeless people. The present cross-sectional study sought to quantify the extent of migrancy of homeless people from their place of birth (PLOB) and evaluate whether a history of problematic drug use, alcohol misuse or enduring mental health problems were associated with migrancy from their PLOB. The work was conducted at an inner-city health centre for the h…
Is peer injecting a form of intimate partner abuse? A qualitative study of the experiences of women drug users
Women are over-represented as the recipients of injections of illicit drugs and are often injected by their intimate partners. This study used qualitative research to explore women drug users' experiences of abuse from intimate partners when being injected with illicit drugs. In-depth interviews were conducted with 45 women drug users in the city of Leeds and the area of North Nottinghamshire, UK. The practice of peer injecting illicit drugs plac…
Methodological Reflections on Closing Qualitative Interviews with Women Drug Users
This article reflects on closing in-depth interviews with women drug users and is based on a grounded theory study conducted with 45 female injectors in two areas of the United Kingdom (UK). In order to bring the interviews to a natural close and to focus the discussion on more positive topics than had been discussed in the main sections of the interview, participants were asked about their plans and hopes for the future. Four methodological issu…
Improving Patient Experience in Hospital Settings
This article presents a process evaluation of the implementation and refinement of a patient experience toolkit (PET) by action researchers in six hospital wards in the English National Health Service (NHS). An initial assumption that health care professionals (HCPs) would use PET to improve patient experience proved unrealistic due to staff and service pressures. However, the action researchers' facilitation of PET and their support during the i…
Associations between migrancy, health and homelessness
There is limited awareness of the link between differing health problems and migrancy of homeless people. The present cross-sectional study sought to quantify the extent of migrancy of homeless people from their place of birth (PLOB) and evaluate whether a history of problematic drug use, alcohol misuse or enduring mental health problems were associated with migrancy from their PLOB. The work was conducted at an inner-city health centre for the h…
Is peer injecting a form of intimate partner abuse? A qualitative study of the experiences of women drug users
Women are over-represented as the recipients of injections of illicit drugs and are often injected by their intimate partners. This study used qualitative research to explore women drug users' experiences of abuse from intimate partners when being injected with illicit drugs. In-depth interviews were conducted with 45 women drug users in the city of Leeds and the area of North Nottinghamshire, UK. The practice of peer injecting illicit drugs plac…
Barriers to accessing generic health and social care services
While research has clearly documented the difficulties injectors encounter in accessing specialist addiction services, there is less evidence of the problems they face when securing general health care and non-substance-misuse-specific support. This paper seeks to fill some of these knowledge gaps. Between January and May 2006, 75 current injectors were recruited and interviewed through three needle exchange programmes located in diverse geograph…
Methodological Reflections on Closing Qualitative Interviews with Women Drug Users
This article reflects on closing in-depth interviews with women drug users and is based on a grounded theory study conducted with 45 female injectors in two areas of the United Kingdom (UK). In order to bring the interviews to a natural close and to focus the discussion on more positive topics than had been discussed in the main sections of the interview, participants were asked about their plans and hopes for the future. Four methodological issu…
Contradictions and Misperceptions
We report the findings of an in-depth interview study conducted with 45 women injecting drug users in Britain. Women described experiences of injecting themselves and being injected by others, including instances of bodily harm and pain. Cleanliness when injecting was an issue of particular importance. An interesting division ("line of decency") occurred between opinions on sharing needles versus sharing injecting equipment. Partnership dynamics …
Anything Could Have Happened
This article explores how 40 women interviewed in the north of England used spaces in the night-time economy and consumed alcohol. The most significant issues were: age of the women, risk and 'luck', drink spiking, and night-time economy spaces themselves. The notion of safety (and strategies for ensuring safety) is illustrated. Palpable fear existed for the women interviewed, related to concerns about unprovoked violence towards them by (male) u…
The Patient Feedback Response Framework – Understanding why UK hospital staff find it difficult to make improvements based on patient feedback
Patients are increasingly being asked for feedback about their healthcare experiences. However, healthcare staff often find it difficult to act on this feedback in order to make improvements to services. This paper draws upon notions of legitimacy and readiness to develop a conceptual framework (Patient Feedback Response Framework - PFRF) which outlines why staff may find it problematic to respond to patient feedback. A large qualitative study wa…
Patient experience feedback in UK hospitals
What's the problem with patient experience feedback? A macro and micro understanding, based on findings from a three‐site UK qualitative study
CONTEXT: Collecting feedback from patients about their experiences of health care is an important activity. However, improvement based on this feedback rarely materializes. In this study, we focus on answering the question-"what is impeding the use of patient experience feedback?" METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study in 2016 across three NHS hospital Trusts in the North of England. Focus groups were undertaken with ward-based staff, and hosp…
Improving Patient Experience in Hospital Settings
This article presents a process evaluation of the implementation and refinement of a patient experience toolkit (PET) by action researchers in six hospital wards in the English National Health Service (NHS). An initial assumption that health care professionals (HCPs) would use PET to improve patient experience proved unrealistic due to staff and service pressures. However, the action researchers' facilitation of PET and their support during the i…
Doing involvement
CONTEXT: Being involved in one's care is prioritised within UK healthcare policy to improve care quality and safety. However, research suggests that many older people struggle with this. DESIGN: We present focused ethnographic research exploring older peoples' involvement in healthcare from hospital to home. RESULTS: We propose that being involved in care is a dynamic form of labour, which we call 'involvement work' (IW). In hospital, many patien…
Understanding Covid‐19 misinformation and vaccine hesitancy in context
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 vaccines can offer a route out of the pandemic, yet initial research suggests that many are unwilling to be vaccinated. A rise in the spread of misinformation is thought to have played a significant role in vaccine hesitancy. To maximize uptake, it is important to understand why misinformation has been able to take hold at this time and why it may pose a more significant problem within certain contexts. OBJECTIVE: To understa…
Telling a story or reporting the facts? Interpretation and description in the qualitative analysis of applied health research data
Interpretative analysis of qualitative data has been likened to a form of creative storytelling. However, analysis of qualitative health research data is often subject to concerns derived from quantitative empiricism such as replicability, bias and impartiality. In applied health research, it seems that qualitative portrayals have become dominated by descriptive reporting at the expense of interpretative accounts. I conducted a documentary analys…
Growing up during a public health crisis
For children at the start of their adolescence undergoing change and formation, the experiences and feelings Covid-19 has set in motion will likely have an impact on their mental and cognitive functioning as they develop further. It is important to acknowledge these early adolescent experiences and continue to monitor and provide targeted support to this group of young people
Development of a ‘real-world’ logic model through testing the feasibility of a complex healthcare intervention
Logic models feature prominently in intervention research yet there is increasing debate about their ability to express how interventions work in the real-world. ‘Real-world’ logic models are a new proposition which express complex interventions in context. They are designed to help researchers strike a balance between context-sensitivity and scalability. This article explores the utility of real-world logic models in a trial involving a complex …
Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on the delivery and receipt of prison healthcare
“It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”
Compliant citizens, defiant rebels or neither? Exploring change and complexity in Covid‐19 vaccine attitudes and decisions in Bradford, UK
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 vaccines have been the central pillar of the public health response to the pandemic, intended to enable us to 'live with Covid'. It is important to understand change and complexity of COVID-19 vaccines attitudes and decisions to maximize uptake through an empathetic lens. OBJECTIVE: To explore the factors that influenced people's COVID-19 vaccines decisions and how their complex attitudes towards the vaccines had changed in a…
‘I don't know what to do or where to go’. Experiences of accessing healthcare support from the perspectives of people living with Long Covid and healthcare professionals
BACKGROUND: In October 2022, it was estimated 2.3 million people in the United Kingdom have self-reported Long Covid (LC). Many people have reported not receiving adequate healthcare support. There is a lack of research which provides an in-depth exploration of the barriers faced by people with LC in accessing healthcare support. It is important to understand these barriers to provide better support, care and advice for those experiencing LC. OBJ…
A glimpse behind the organisational curtain
Healthcare staff are encouraged to use feedback from their patients to inform service and quality improvement. Receiving patient feedback via online channels is a relatively new phenomenon that has rarely been conceptualised. Further, the implications of a wide, varied and unknown(able) audience being able to view and interact with online patient feedback are yet to be understood. We applied a theoretical lens of dramaturgy to a large ethnographi…
Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside
Prison has been described as the ultimate form of time-punishment - a place where time is no longer a commodity for individuals to spend, but is ordered by a system which symbolises its power through the control of segments of people's lives. As such, a prison sentence epitomises the experience of waiting. Yet anticipating release is not the only form of waiting within carceral life; waiting for healthcare in its various forms also shapes people'…
I am just a shadow of who I used to be'-Exploring existential loss of identity among people living with chronic conditions of Long Covid
Identity loss and (re)construction forms a central debate in sociology of chronic illness. Living with chronic/persistent health conditions may raise questions about how disruptions can touch upon and further threaten the very roots of existence, by which people reflexively perceive a coherent and stable sense of 'being-in-the-world'. Whilst medical sociologists have shown interest in 'existential loss' in chronic illness, this question remains l…
Powerless or Powerful? Healthcare Professionals' Construction of Agency in Patient and Family Engagement Accounts
“It's not bullying if I do it to everyone”
The study aimed to understand NHS healthcare workers’ perceptions of toxic organisational cultures and behaviours, by undertaking an analysis of tweets. The prompt tweet was posted in late 2022 by @DrLindaDykes (a prominent UK physician), inviting healthcare staff to share their experiences of “red flags that indicate you’re probably in a toxic organisation”. A qualitative analysis of response tweets was undertaken, using inductive thematic analy…
Adolescent girls as local active citizens
Parks offer opportunities for adolescent girls to be physically active, yet many are excluded from these spaces, particularly those who are affected by intersecting inequalities. This paper draws from six focus groups with 33 adolescent girls in Bradford, United Kingdom, to explore the relationship between their sense of belonging in their local parks and their engagement with physical activity (PA) in these spaces. Drawing on Yuval-Davis’ sociol…
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