Nicola Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0870-8324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Talking about death and dying
Talking about death and dying is promoted in UK health policy and practice, from a perception that to do so encourages people to plan for their end of life and so increase their likelihood of experiencing a good death. This encouragement occurs alongside a belief that members of the public are reluctant to talk about death, although surveys suggest this is not the case. This paper describes findings from a research study in which people participa…
Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care
The demands and costs of health care resulting from increasingly ageing populations have become a major public health issue in the United Kingdom and other industrially developed nations. Concern with cost containment and shortage of resources has prompted a progressive shift in responsibility from state provision of care to individual patients and their families, and from the institutional setting of the hospital to the domestic home. Under the …
Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With Different Communication Needs
This article explores the challenges and adaptations we undertook to engage people with different communication needs, specifically those living with motor neurone disease (MND), in qualitative research interviews. While interviewing those in advanced stages of illness has raised ethical concerns, participants continue to report value in contributing to research. We reflect on our experiences of conducting qualitative interviews with people livin…
The ideal and the real
Home has become established as the preferred place of death within health policy and practice in the UK and internationally. However, growing awareness of the structured inequalities underpinning end-of-life care and the challenges for family members undertaking care at home raise questions about the nature of patient and public preferences and priorities regarding place of death and the feasibility of home management of the complex care needs at…
It’s Not Like in the Films’
This paper explores how people enact and experience the deathbed vigil when someone close to them is dying. It draws on qualitative interviews with 34 bereaved people carried out as part of a wider study exploring public perceptions of death and dying. Participants were aware of the expectation that they would attend the deathbed and did their best to do so. Findings are reported using four themes: gathering, enacting the deathbed vigil, experien…
Ethical challenges in researching and telling the stories of recently deceased people
This paper explores ethical challenges encountered when conducting research about, and telling, the stories of individuals who had died before the research began. Cases were explored where individuals who lived alone had died alone at home and where their bodies had been undiscovered for an extended period. The ethical review process had not had anything significant to say about the deceased ‘participants’. As social researchers we considered whe…
What do family care-givers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? A qualitative study
In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia living in the community. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out in England with 14 family care-givers (FCGs) recruited from a single private home care provider. A thematic analysis of th…
Moral ambiguity in media reports of dying alone
More older people are living alone in the UK, thereby increasing the prospect of dying alone at home. Lone deaths tend to be regarded as bad deaths, in that they contravene notions of accompaniment and open awareness espoused in UK end of life care policies. We describe a media analysis of dying alone conducted in two phases. First, we revisited a previous media analysis to examine whether news reporting of dying alone has changed. Second, we foc…
A Relative Absence
When someone dies, it is usual for relatives to gather at a funeral to embody a collective act of eulogy for the deceased and stand against the finality of death. When someone who lived alone dies alone at home, it is not always possible to identify anyone to attend a funeral. In such cases, funeral professionals are required to perform the appropriate social rites in the absence of the confirmatory power of a society. Drawing on interviews with …
My life's properly beginning
This paper explores how young people who are living with a parent who is dying talk about the future. Drawing on a qualitative, interview study, I argue that young people are able to move imaginatively beyond the death of a parent, and in doing so, to maintain a sense of biographical continuity. While thinking about the future, most were able to generate an alternative to the 'harm story' typically associated with parental loss. Furthermore, the …
Troubling meanings of family and competing moral imperatives in the family lives of young people with a parent who is at the end of life
This article draws on a narrative study of young people with a parent who is at the end of life to examine how family lives are troubled by life-limiting parental illness. Young people struggled to reconcile the physical and emotional absence of family members with meanings of ‘family’; the extent to which young people could rely on family to ‘be there’ in these troubling circumstances was of practical, emotional and moral significance. Our discu…
Recruiting young people to sensitive research
This article contributes to a growing literature that takes a more nuanced approach to exploring the complexities of relationships and negotiations with gatekeepers. Using our study of young people living with a parent at the end of life as a ‘critical case’ of sensitive qualitative research, we discuss how far from being a smooth, linear process, participant recruitment was experienced as a series of overlapping challenges, characterised here as…
Recruiting young people to sensitive research
This article contributes to a growing literature that takes a more nuanced approach to exploring the complexities of relationships and negotiations with gatekeepers. Using our study of young people living with a parent at the end of life as a ‘critical case’ of sensitive qualitative research, we discuss how far from being a smooth, linear process, participant recruitment was experienced as a series of overlapping challenges, characterised here as…
Troubling meanings of family and competing moral imperatives in the family lives of young people with a parent who is at the end of life
This article draws on a narrative study of young people with a parent who is at the end of life to examine how family lives are troubled by life-limiting parental illness. Young people struggled to reconcile the physical and emotional absence of family members with meanings of ‘family’; the extent to which young people could rely on family to ‘be there’ in these troubling circumstances was of practical, emotional and moral significance. Our discu…
Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care
The demands and costs of health care resulting from increasingly ageing populations have become a major public health issue in the United Kingdom and other industrially developed nations. Concern with cost containment and shortage of resources has prompted a progressive shift in responsibility from state provision of care to individual patients and their families, and from the institutional setting of the hospital to the domestic home. Under the …
Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With Different Communication Needs
This article explores the challenges and adaptations we undertook to engage people with different communication needs, specifically those living with motor neurone disease (MND), in qualitative research interviews. While interviewing those in advanced stages of illness has raised ethical concerns, participants continue to report value in contributing to research. We reflect on our experiences of conducting qualitative interviews with people livin…
The ideal and the real
Home has become established as the preferred place of death within health policy and practice in the UK and internationally. However, growing awareness of the structured inequalities underpinning end-of-life care and the challenges for family members undertaking care at home raise questions about the nature of patient and public preferences and priorities regarding place of death and the feasibility of home management of the complex care needs at…
What do family care-givers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? A qualitative study
In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia living in the community. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out in England with 14 family care-givers (FCGs) recruited from a single private home care provider. A thematic analysis of th…
My life's properly beginning
This paper explores how young people who are living with a parent who is dying talk about the future. Drawing on a qualitative, interview study, I argue that young people are able to move imaginatively beyond the death of a parent, and in doing so, to maintain a sense of biographical continuity. While thinking about the future, most were able to generate an alternative to the 'harm story' typically associated with parental loss. Furthermore, the …
Recruiting young people to sensitive research
This article contributes to a growing literature that takes a more nuanced approach to exploring the complexities of relationships and negotiations with gatekeepers. Using our study of young people living with a parent at the end of life as a ‘critical case’ of sensitive qualitative research, we discuss how far from being a smooth, linear process, participant recruitment was experienced as a series of overlapping challenges, characterised here as…
Troubling meanings of family and competing moral imperatives in the family lives of young people with a parent who is at the end of life
This article draws on a narrative study of young people with a parent who is at the end of life to examine how family lives are troubled by life-limiting parental illness. Young people struggled to reconcile the physical and emotional absence of family members with meanings of ‘family’; the extent to which young people could rely on family to ‘be there’ in these troubling circumstances was of practical, emotional and moral significance. Our discu…
Moral ambiguity in media reports of dying alone
More older people are living alone in the UK, thereby increasing the prospect of dying alone at home. Lone deaths tend to be regarded as bad deaths, in that they contravene notions of accompaniment and open awareness espoused in UK end of life care policies. We describe a media analysis of dying alone conducted in two phases. First, we revisited a previous media analysis to examine whether news reporting of dying alone has changed. Second, we foc…
A Relative Absence
When someone dies, it is usual for relatives to gather at a funeral to embody a collective act of eulogy for the deceased and stand against the finality of death. When someone who lived alone dies alone at home, it is not always possible to identify anyone to attend a funeral. In such cases, funeral professionals are required to perform the appropriate social rites in the absence of the confirmatory power of a society. Drawing on interviews with …
My life's properly beginning
This paper explores how young people who are living with a parent who is dying talk about the future. Drawing on a qualitative, interview study, I argue that young people are able to move imaginatively beyond the death of a parent, and in doing so, to maintain a sense of biographical continuity. While thinking about the future, most were able to generate an alternative to the 'harm story' typically associated with parental loss. Furthermore, the …
Ethical challenges in researching and telling the stories of recently deceased people
This paper explores ethical challenges encountered when conducting research about, and telling, the stories of individuals who had died before the research began. Cases were explored where individuals who lived alone had died alone at home and where their bodies had been undiscovered for an extended period. The ethical review process had not had anything significant to say about the deceased ‘participants’. As social researchers we considered whe…
What do family care-givers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? A qualitative study
In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia living in the community. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out in England with 14 family care-givers (FCGs) recruited from a single private home care provider. A thematic analysis of th…
It’s Not Like in the Films’
This paper explores how people enact and experience the deathbed vigil when someone close to them is dying. It draws on qualitative interviews with 34 bereaved people carried out as part of a wider study exploring public perceptions of death and dying. Participants were aware of the expectation that they would attend the deathbed and did their best to do so. Findings are reported using four themes: gathering, enacting the deathbed vigil, experien…
The ideal and the real
Home has become established as the preferred place of death within health policy and practice in the UK and internationally. However, growing awareness of the structured inequalities underpinning end-of-life care and the challenges for family members undertaking care at home raise questions about the nature of patient and public preferences and priorities regarding place of death and the feasibility of home management of the complex care needs at…
Talking about death and dying
Talking about death and dying is promoted in UK health policy and practice, from a perception that to do so encourages people to plan for their end of life and so increase their likelihood of experiencing a good death. This encouragement occurs alongside a belief that members of the public are reluctant to talk about death, although surveys suggest this is not the case. This paper describes findings from a research study in which people participa…
Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care
The demands and costs of health care resulting from increasingly ageing populations have become a major public health issue in the United Kingdom and other industrially developed nations. Concern with cost containment and shortage of resources has prompted a progressive shift in responsibility from state provision of care to individual patients and their families, and from the institutional setting of the hospital to the domestic home. Under the …
Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With Different Communication Needs
This article explores the challenges and adaptations we undertook to engage people with different communication needs, specifically those living with motor neurone disease (MND), in qualitative research interviews. While interviewing those in advanced stages of illness has raised ethical concerns, participants continue to report value in contributing to research. We reflect on our experiences of conducting qualitative interviews with people livin…
Psychology (11 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)