Mary Godfrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 126873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Godfrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Godfrey |
| SIGNATURE | GODFREY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2408-534X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
If they don't use it, they lose it’: How organisational structures and practices shape residents’ physical movement in care home settings
Older people living in long-term facilities (nursing and residential homes providing 24-hour care) spend the majority of their time inactive, despite the known health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity and reduced time spent sedentary. In order to successfully embed interventions that aim to increase physical activity or reduce sedentary behaviour, it is necessary to understand the features of the care environment that influence resident…
Unveiling the Maelstrom of the Early Breast Cancer Trajectory
Length and complexity of illness and treatment in early breast cancer mean that the acute phase may extend over months. Employing concepts of "trajectory" and "work" from chronic illness, we explored the temporality of the illness experience for women as it unfolded from diagnosis through acute treatment. We performed multiple, qualitative interviews with 14 women at critical points in their first year postdiagnosis. We differentiated between sub…
Disciplinary power and the process of training informal carers on stroke units
This article examines the process of training informal carers on stroke units using the lens of power. Care is usually assumed as a kinship obligation but the state has long had an interest in framing the carer and caring work. Training carers in healthcare settings raises questions about the power of the state and healthcare professionals as its agents to shape expectations and practices related to the caring role. Drawing on Foucault's notion o…
Poststroke Trajectories: The Process of Recovery Over the Longer Term Following Stroke
We adopted a grounded theory approach to explore the process of recovery experienced by stroke survivors over the longer term who were living in the community in the United Kingdom, and the interacting factors that are understood to have shaped their recovery trajectories. We used a combination of qualitative methods. From the accounts of 22 purposively sampled stroke survivors, four different recovery trajectories were evident: (a) meaningful re…
Older People in Transition From Illness to Health: Trajectories of Recovery
Despite growing interest in the meaning of illness and recovery in older age, much of the research has focused on particular conditions, such as stroke; yet, illness in later life is considerably more diverse. In this article, we examine the experience of illness and process of recovery through interviews with 64 older people receiving intermediate care, a form of transitional care to support people between illness and resumption of everyday life…
The user perspective on managing for health outcomes: The case of mental health
The Department of Health has placed great importance on evidence-based purchasing rooted in the assessment and measurement of health outcomes. This paper critically examines the conventional clinical effectiveness approach and argues for the integration of a user perspective in defining and determining health outcomes. Some conceptual issues around user involvement in mental health are considered first. Then we draw upon research with users and c…
Being a 'good mother: Managing breastfeeding and merging identities
Networks and governance: The case of intermediate care
The present paper describes a novel approach to the study of services conceptualised as networks. It uses data collected as part of a case study evaluation of intermediate care, a 'joined-up government' policy that was explicitly intended to dissolve the boundaries between health and social care services. The evaluation was undertaken in five localities in England. Routine service use data were collated and standardised for the 12-month period fr…
Heroines, villains and victims: Older people's perceptions of others
This paper examines older people's contrasting images of older people as ‘those like us’ and as ‘others’. It draws on data from a qualitative study about the experience of ageing that was undertaken in partnership with two local groups of older people in England. Whilst the informants acknowledged their chronological age, changes in appearance and physical limitations, most did not describe themselves as old. They challenged the idea of older peo…
An evaluation tool to assess the quality of qualitative research studies
Critical appraisal of research studies forms a central role within the application and uptake of evidence‐based approaches within health and social care. While there are established checklists for evaluating quantitative research, this is not the case for qualitative research. This article outlines the process of developing an evaluative tool for qualitative studies, reflecting the uniqueness of the associated paradigm, and illustrates its use by…
Prevention: Developing a framework for conceptualizing and evaluating outcomes of preventive services for older people
There is growing preoccupation among policy makers and commissioners in developing preventive strategies and services. There is simultaneous concern with evidence-based purchasing and provision, within health and social care. In social care the evidence base regarding prevention is neither extensive nor robust. As the review of recent policy documents indicates, the concept of prevention is extremely slippery. What preventive services are and whe…
What Works: Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Public Services
Being a 'good mother: Managing breastfeeding and merging identities
Heroines, villains and victims: Older people's perceptions of others
This paper examines older people's contrasting images of older people as ‘those like us’ and as ‘others’. It draws on data from a qualitative study about the experience of ageing that was undertaken in partnership with two local groups of older people in England. Whilst the informants acknowledged their chronological age, changes in appearance and physical limitations, most did not describe themselves as old. They challenged the idea of older peo…
An evaluation tool to assess the quality of qualitative research studies
Critical appraisal of research studies forms a central role within the application and uptake of evidence‐based approaches within health and social care. While there are established checklists for evaluating quantitative research, this is not the case for qualitative research. This article outlines the process of developing an evaluative tool for qualitative studies, reflecting the uniqueness of the associated paradigm, and illustrates its use by…
What Works: Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Public Services
Unveiling the Maelstrom of the Early Breast Cancer Trajectory
Length and complexity of illness and treatment in early breast cancer mean that the acute phase may extend over months. Employing concepts of "trajectory" and "work" from chronic illness, we explored the temporality of the illness experience for women as it unfolded from diagnosis through acute treatment. We performed multiple, qualitative interviews with 14 women at critical points in their first year postdiagnosis. We differentiated between sub…
The user perspective on managing for health outcomes: The case of mental health
The Department of Health has placed great importance on evidence-based purchasing rooted in the assessment and measurement of health outcomes. This paper critically examines the conventional clinical effectiveness approach and argues for the integration of a user perspective in defining and determining health outcomes. Some conceptual issues around user involvement in mental health are considered first. Then we draw upon research with users and c…
If they don't use it, they lose it’: How organisational structures and practices shape residents’ physical movement in care home settings
Older people living in long-term facilities (nursing and residential homes providing 24-hour care) spend the majority of their time inactive, despite the known health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity and reduced time spent sedentary. In order to successfully embed interventions that aim to increase physical activity or reduce sedentary behaviour, it is necessary to understand the features of the care environment that influence resident…
Networks and governance: The case of intermediate care
The present paper describes a novel approach to the study of services conceptualised as networks. It uses data collected as part of a case study evaluation of intermediate care, a 'joined-up government' policy that was explicitly intended to dissolve the boundaries between health and social care services. The evaluation was undertaken in five localities in England. Routine service use data were collated and standardised for the 12-month period fr…
Disciplinary power and the process of training informal carers on stroke units
This article examines the process of training informal carers on stroke units using the lens of power. Care is usually assumed as a kinship obligation but the state has long had an interest in framing the carer and caring work. Training carers in healthcare settings raises questions about the power of the state and healthcare professionals as its agents to shape expectations and practices related to the caring role. Drawing on Foucault's notion o…
Prevention: Developing a framework for conceptualizing and evaluating outcomes of preventive services for older people
There is growing preoccupation among policy makers and commissioners in developing preventive strategies and services. There is simultaneous concern with evidence-based purchasing and provision, within health and social care. In social care the evidence base regarding prevention is neither extensive nor robust. As the review of recent policy documents indicates, the concept of prevention is extremely slippery. What preventive services are and whe…
What Works: Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Public Services
An evaluation tool to assess the quality of qualitative research studies
Critical appraisal of research studies forms a central role within the application and uptake of evidence‐based approaches within health and social care. While there are established checklists for evaluating quantitative research, this is not the case for qualitative research. This article outlines the process of developing an evaluative tool for qualitative studies, reflecting the uniqueness of the associated paradigm, and illustrates its use by…
Networks and governance: The case of intermediate care
The present paper describes a novel approach to the study of services conceptualised as networks. It uses data collected as part of a case study evaluation of intermediate care, a 'joined-up government' policy that was explicitly intended to dissolve the boundaries between health and social care services. The evaluation was undertaken in five localities in England. Routine service use data were collated and standardised for the 12-month period fr…
Heroines, villains and victims: Older people's perceptions of others
This paper examines older people's contrasting images of older people as ‘those like us’ and as ‘others’. It draws on data from a qualitative study about the experience of ageing that was undertaken in partnership with two local groups of older people in England. Whilst the informants acknowledged their chronological age, changes in appearance and physical limitations, most did not describe themselves as old. They challenged the idea of older peo…
The user perspective on managing for health outcomes: The case of mental health
The Department of Health has placed great importance on evidence-based purchasing rooted in the assessment and measurement of health outcomes. This paper critically examines the conventional clinical effectiveness approach and argues for the integration of a user perspective in defining and determining health outcomes. Some conceptual issues around user involvement in mental health are considered first. Then we draw upon research with users and c…
Being a 'good mother: Managing breastfeeding and merging identities
Older People in Transition From Illness to Health: Trajectories of Recovery
Despite growing interest in the meaning of illness and recovery in older age, much of the research has focused on particular conditions, such as stroke; yet, illness in later life is considerably more diverse. In this article, we examine the experience of illness and process of recovery through interviews with 64 older people receiving intermediate care, a form of transitional care to support people between illness and resumption of everyday life…
Poststroke Trajectories: The Process of Recovery Over the Longer Term Following Stroke
We adopted a grounded theory approach to explore the process of recovery experienced by stroke survivors over the longer term who were living in the community in the United Kingdom, and the interacting factors that are understood to have shaped their recovery trajectories. We used a combination of qualitative methods. From the accounts of 22 purposively sampled stroke survivors, four different recovery trajectories were evident: (a) meaningful re…
If they don't use it, they lose it’: How organisational structures and practices shape residents’ physical movement in care home settings
Older people living in long-term facilities (nursing and residential homes providing 24-hour care) spend the majority of their time inactive, despite the known health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity and reduced time spent sedentary. In order to successfully embed interventions that aim to increase physical activity or reduce sedentary behaviour, it is necessary to understand the features of the care environment that influence resident…
Unveiling the Maelstrom of the Early Breast Cancer Trajectory
Length and complexity of illness and treatment in early breast cancer mean that the acute phase may extend over months. Employing concepts of "trajectory" and "work" from chronic illness, we explored the temporality of the illness experience for women as it unfolded from diagnosis through acute treatment. We performed multiple, qualitative interviews with 14 women at critical points in their first year postdiagnosis. We differentiated between sub…
Disciplinary power and the process of training informal carers on stroke units
This article examines the process of training informal carers on stroke units using the lens of power. Care is usually assumed as a kinship obligation but the state has long had an interest in framing the carer and caring work. Training carers in healthcare settings raises questions about the power of the state and healthcare professionals as its agents to shape expectations and practices related to the caring role. Drawing on Foucault's notion o…
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works)