Tom Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 263494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3145-2731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Collaborating across academia and local government
In the UK, increasing attention is being given to strengthening the use of academically produced evidence within local government. Recent investment from the National Institute for Health and Care Research has supported various initiatives designed to foster closer collaboration between universities and local authorities. This includes the Health Determinants Research Collaborations (HDRCs) and a separate researcher-in-residence programme focused…
Trajectories of Despair
Suicide is a major public health issue. There are over 700,000 deaths globally and rising levels of suicidal ideation are reported. While epidemiological research has demonstrated associations between social factors and suicide, further attention is needed to understand the processes through which these factors combine, accumulate and shape vulnerability over time. Drawing on 28 qualitative interviews with third-sector suicide-prevention practiti…
‘It Was About as Far at Odds With Our Provider Failure Protocol…as You Can Get’. Untangling Care Policy When Care Homes Close
This article takes an extreme case ‐ the emergency closure of a care home on a Friday evening ‐ to explore how a lack of coordination between national and local stakeholders led to a brutalising experience for frail residents and social care staff. Care home closures sit at the interface of multiple policy domains including funding, infrastructure, staffing, quality assurance and regulation. Drawing on interviews with managers and wider stakehold…
Understanding older people’s experiences of care home closure through the lenses of precarity and transition
This article addresses a gap in current evidence by examining the experiences of older people and families when care homes close. We adopt the dual lenses of the precarity of ageing and adaptation to transition to facilitate understanding of the structural and experiential dimensions of care home closure. We argue that the experiences of older people and their families of care home closure are a largely hidden example of the increasing precarity …
What happens when care homes close? A review of the literature
In a fraught fiscal and post-pandemic context, English adult social care is likely to see further care home closures. To make sure that closures minimise distress and potentially negative outcomes for residents, this article reports findings from an analytical narrative review of the existing research evidence about the process and outcome of such closures in the UK. Despite the importance of these issues, there is little underpinning research to…
Learning from pandemic precarity
This commentary is a critical reflection by early career researchers (ECRs) working in qualitative health research (QHR) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of the pandemic have been acutely felt by ECRs working in QHR. Many studies stopped, almost overnight, as healthcare institutions restricted access and redeployed staff, forcing researchers to redesign or even abandon projects. We reflect on the burden of these challenges for insec…
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis
Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis (CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and moreover works at a …
The Disparate Approaches of General Practitioners to the Pharmaceuticalisation of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
In the context of current clinical practice guidance, this paper will analyse the role of GPs in decision-making about the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) using the concept of pharmaceuticalisation. Drawing on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 GPs, the paper argues that the way GPs approach CVD pharmaceuticalisation is shaped by their understandings of and use of guidelines (and the knowledge they embody),…
Hopes, hesitancy and the risky business of vaccine development
Trust matters for doctors? Towards an agenda for research
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
Trust matters for doctors? Towards an agenda for research
Trust matters for doctors? Towards an agenda for research
Hopes, hesitancy and the risky business of vaccine development
The Disparate Approaches of General Practitioners to the Pharmaceuticalisation of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
In the context of current clinical practice guidance, this paper will analyse the role of GPs in decision-making about the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) using the concept of pharmaceuticalisation. Drawing on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 GPs, the paper argues that the way GPs approach CVD pharmaceuticalisation is shaped by their understandings of and use of guidelines (and the knowledge they embody),…
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis
Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis (CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and moreover works at a …
Learning from pandemic precarity
This commentary is a critical reflection by early career researchers (ECRs) working in qualitative health research (QHR) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of the pandemic have been acutely felt by ECRs working in QHR. Many studies stopped, almost overnight, as healthcare institutions restricted access and redeployed staff, forcing researchers to redesign or even abandon projects. We reflect on the burden of these challenges for insec…
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
What happens when care homes close? A review of the literature
In a fraught fiscal and post-pandemic context, English adult social care is likely to see further care home closures. To make sure that closures minimise distress and potentially negative outcomes for residents, this article reports findings from an analytical narrative review of the existing research evidence about the process and outcome of such closures in the UK. Despite the importance of these issues, there is little underpinning research to…
‘It Was About as Far at Odds With Our Provider Failure Protocol…as You Can Get’. Untangling Care Policy When Care Homes Close
This article takes an extreme case ‐ the emergency closure of a care home on a Friday evening ‐ to explore how a lack of coordination between national and local stakeholders led to a brutalising experience for frail residents and social care staff. Care home closures sit at the interface of multiple policy domains including funding, infrastructure, staffing, quality assurance and regulation. Drawing on interviews with managers and wider stakehold…
Understanding older people’s experiences of care home closure through the lenses of precarity and transition
This article addresses a gap in current evidence by examining the experiences of older people and families when care homes close. We adopt the dual lenses of the precarity of ageing and adaptation to transition to facilitate understanding of the structural and experiential dimensions of care home closure. We argue that the experiences of older people and their families of care home closure are a largely hidden example of the increasing precarity …
Collaborating across academia and local government
In the UK, increasing attention is being given to strengthening the use of academically produced evidence within local government. Recent investment from the National Institute for Health and Care Research has supported various initiatives designed to foster closer collaboration between universities and local authorities. This includes the Health Determinants Research Collaborations (HDRCs) and a separate researcher-in-residence programme focused…
Trajectories of Despair
Suicide is a major public health issue. There are over 700,000 deaths globally and rising levels of suicidal ideation are reported. While epidemiological research has demonstrated associations between social factors and suicide, further attention is needed to understand the processes through which these factors combine, accumulate and shape vulnerability over time. Drawing on 28 qualitative interviews with third-sector suicide-prevention practiti…
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works)