Rachel Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 4215430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2118-2141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘The burden is very much on yourself’: A qualitative study to understand the illness and treatment burden of hearing loss across the life course
INTRODUCTION: Hearing loss is a chronic health condition that rises sharply with age. The way people respond to and cope with health conditions is influenced by their capacity to perform illness and treatment-related work. The aim was to explore the cumulative burdens of living with hearing loss and the resources mobilised to ease the burdens. METHODS: A qualitative design was used with semi-structured interviews (online or in-person) with partic…
Diarised Reflections on Covid-19 and Bereavement: Disruptions and Affordances
COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing measures have restricted funerals and memorial events and have limited the face-to-face social networks that grieving people might normally be able to draw upon for emotional support. However, while there is considerable expert informed speculation about the impacts of grief and “COVID bereavement”, detailed accounts of experiences of bereavement and bereavement support during the pandemic have the potentia…
A qualitative exploration of barriers to university students’ willingness to attend sexual violence prevention workshops
Universities have implemented a range of education programmes to address the problem of sexual violence on campus. While these programmes can improve the attitudes and behaviours that contribute to rape culture, little is known about the factors influencing students’ decisions to participate in such programmes. The aim of this study was to understand university students’ decisions about attending sexual violence prevention workshops. Focus groups…
Pro‐social bystander sexual violence prevention workshops for first year university students: Perspectives of students and staff of residential colleges
Bring in The Bystander is a workshop programme that was developed to tackle the problem of sexual violence on university campuses by taking a community values approach. In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative findings from a process of piloting the programme at a university in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The study was designed as a parallel QUAN‐qual approach, utilising a survey and focus group discussions as data collecting methods. The…
Do the Welsh have it? Evaluating a bereavement support service supporting people bereaved by dementia
Accumulating evidence suggests that a dementia diagnosis, for many, triggers feelings of grief, and often marks the first of many losses that will be experienced by both the person who has received the diagnosis and their loved ones, as the disease progresses. Previous research has also revealed that carers who report higher levels of pre-death grief are at greater risk of complicated grief after their loved one has died. Despite this evidence, a…
Beyond the script: On the inclusion of film within a discursive analysis and the immaculate construction of Daniel Blake
Modern UK welfare reforms, such as employment and support allowance (ESA), aim to provide financial support to individuals unable to work due to disability or chronic health conditions. As part of a media framing analysis, which explores the ways in which these welfare reforms have been reported by the UK press, Ken Loach’s 2016 film I, Daniel Blake was identified by the research team as an important discursive resource. Through a novel multimoda…
Lifeworld interpretation of tinnitus
Lifeworld-led care provides a route through which research and practice can navigate the ‘biopsychosocial’ allowing us to overcome the shortfalls of the medical model and enabling us to prioritise humanity in the care of people living with tinnitus. In this article, we sought to explore qualitative descriptions of life with tinnitus. We aimed to address the question ‘what it is like to live with tinnitus?’ In doing so we examined qualitative stud…
Preliminary development of proxy-rated quality-of-life scales for children and adults with Niemann-Pick type C
The NPCQLQ-C and NPCQLQ-A are the first disease-specific QoL scales to be developed for people living with NPC. This novel approach to scale development values the experiential, real life impact of living with NPC and focused on the lived-experiences and impact on QoL. The scales will enable healthcare professionals and researchers to have a better understanding and quantifiable measurement of the impact of living with NPC on a patient's daily li…
Surviving and thriving REF2021 for qualitative psychologists: Discussion panel event at QMiP 2017 conference
In a 2016 issue of QMiP Bulletin (Issue 21), our current Chair, Sarah Riley, highlighted some of the particular issues faced by qualitative psychologists in relation to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Memorably describing REF as: ‘The Voice and the Spanish Inquisition rolled into one, with a lot more meetings’, the article concludes with a promise that REF issues would be addressed at QMiP’s 2017 conference – where a REF discussion panel…
Perceptions and experiences of frailty interventions: Quantitative and qualitative results from a survey of partners within the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA)
The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) was launched by the European Commission in 2011 to promote innovation in ageing research. This paper explores the experiences of partners delivering frailty interventions within Europe, registering their programmes with the EIP-AHA. Data were collected using an online survey from 21 partners in seven countries. A mixed-method approach was used with inductive thematic analy…
Teaching research ethics as active learning: Reading Venkatesh and Goffman as curriculum resources
The pedagogy of teaching research methods, let alone research ethics, is an under-researched field. In this article a sociology lecturer connects five postgraduate students in a qualitative research ethics course with two novice ethnographers’ candid empirical studies. While it is common for students to read articles and books on the topic, what was unusual in this ethics course was assigning the readings without priming the students of the ethic…
Enjoying the third age! Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities
Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affect…
Theory, Method and Psychology: The British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference
Appraising qualitative research for inclusion in systematic reviews: A quantitative and qualitative comparison of three methods
Objective: Qualitative research is increasingly valued as part of the evidence for policy and practice, but how it should be appraised is contested. Various appraisal methods, including checklists and other structured approaches, have been proposed but rarely evaluated. We aimed to compare three methods for appraising qualitative research papers that were candidates for inclusion in a systematic review of evidence on support for breast-feeding. M…
Why we use qualitative methods in psychology
Teaching research ethics as active learning: Reading Venkatesh and Goffman as curriculum resources
The pedagogy of teaching research methods, let alone research ethics, is an under-researched field. In this article a sociology lecturer connects five postgraduate students in a qualitative research ethics course with two novice ethnographers’ candid empirical studies. While it is common for students to read articles and books on the topic, what was unusual in this ethics course was assigning the readings without priming the students of the ethic…
Enjoying the third age! Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities
Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affect…
Perceptions and experiences of frailty interventions: Quantitative and qualitative results from a survey of partners within the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA)
The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) was launched by the European Commission in 2011 to promote innovation in ageing research. This paper explores the experiences of partners delivering frailty interventions within Europe, registering their programmes with the EIP-AHA. Data were collected using an online survey from 21 partners in seven countries. A mixed-method approach was used with inductive thematic analy…
Why we use qualitative methods in psychology
Appraising qualitative research for inclusion in systematic reviews: A quantitative and qualitative comparison of three methods
Objective: Qualitative research is increasingly valued as part of the evidence for policy and practice, but how it should be appraised is contested. Various appraisal methods, including checklists and other structured approaches, have been proposed but rarely evaluated. We aimed to compare three methods for appraising qualitative research papers that were candidates for inclusion in a systematic review of evidence on support for breast-feeding. M…
Theory, Method and Psychology: The British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference
Teaching research ethics as active learning: Reading Venkatesh and Goffman as curriculum resources
The pedagogy of teaching research methods, let alone research ethics, is an under-researched field. In this article a sociology lecturer connects five postgraduate students in a qualitative research ethics course with two novice ethnographers’ candid empirical studies. While it is common for students to read articles and books on the topic, what was unusual in this ethics course was assigning the readings without priming the students of the ethic…
Enjoying the third age! Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities
Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affect…
Surviving and thriving REF2021 for qualitative psychologists: Discussion panel event at QMiP 2017 conference
In a 2016 issue of QMiP Bulletin (Issue 21), our current Chair, Sarah Riley, highlighted some of the particular issues faced by qualitative psychologists in relation to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Memorably describing REF as: ‘The Voice and the Spanish Inquisition rolled into one, with a lot more meetings’, the article concludes with a promise that REF issues would be addressed at QMiP’s 2017 conference – where a REF discussion panel…
Perceptions and experiences of frailty interventions: Quantitative and qualitative results from a survey of partners within the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA)
The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) was launched by the European Commission in 2011 to promote innovation in ageing research. This paper explores the experiences of partners delivering frailty interventions within Europe, registering their programmes with the EIP-AHA. Data were collected using an online survey from 21 partners in seven countries. A mixed-method approach was used with inductive thematic analy…
Do the Welsh have it? Evaluating a bereavement support service supporting people bereaved by dementia
Accumulating evidence suggests that a dementia diagnosis, for many, triggers feelings of grief, and often marks the first of many losses that will be experienced by both the person who has received the diagnosis and their loved ones, as the disease progresses. Previous research has also revealed that carers who report higher levels of pre-death grief are at greater risk of complicated grief after their loved one has died. Despite this evidence, a…
Beyond the script: On the inclusion of film within a discursive analysis and the immaculate construction of Daniel Blake
Modern UK welfare reforms, such as employment and support allowance (ESA), aim to provide financial support to individuals unable to work due to disability or chronic health conditions. As part of a media framing analysis, which explores the ways in which these welfare reforms have been reported by the UK press, Ken Loach’s 2016 film I, Daniel Blake was identified by the research team as an important discursive resource. Through a novel multimoda…
Lifeworld interpretation of tinnitus
Lifeworld-led care provides a route through which research and practice can navigate the ‘biopsychosocial’ allowing us to overcome the shortfalls of the medical model and enabling us to prioritise humanity in the care of people living with tinnitus. In this article, we sought to explore qualitative descriptions of life with tinnitus. We aimed to address the question ‘what it is like to live with tinnitus?’ In doing so we examined qualitative stud…
Preliminary development of proxy-rated quality-of-life scales for children and adults with Niemann-Pick type C
The NPCQLQ-C and NPCQLQ-A are the first disease-specific QoL scales to be developed for people living with NPC. This novel approach to scale development values the experiential, real life impact of living with NPC and focused on the lived-experiences and impact on QoL. The scales will enable healthcare professionals and researchers to have a better understanding and quantifiable measurement of the impact of living with NPC on a patient's daily li…
A qualitative exploration of barriers to university students’ willingness to attend sexual violence prevention workshops
Universities have implemented a range of education programmes to address the problem of sexual violence on campus. While these programmes can improve the attitudes and behaviours that contribute to rape culture, little is known about the factors influencing students’ decisions to participate in such programmes. The aim of this study was to understand university students’ decisions about attending sexual violence prevention workshops. Focus groups…
Pro‐social bystander sexual violence prevention workshops for first year university students: Perspectives of students and staff of residential colleges
Bring in The Bystander is a workshop programme that was developed to tackle the problem of sexual violence on university campuses by taking a community values approach. In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative findings from a process of piloting the programme at a university in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The study was designed as a parallel QUAN‐qual approach, utilising a survey and focus group discussions as data collecting methods. The…
Diarised Reflections on Covid-19 and Bereavement: Disruptions and Affordances
COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing measures have restricted funerals and memorial events and have limited the face-to-face social networks that grieving people might normally be able to draw upon for emotional support. However, while there is considerable expert informed speculation about the impacts of grief and “COVID bereavement”, detailed accounts of experiences of bereavement and bereavement support during the pandemic have the potentia…
‘The burden is very much on yourself’: A qualitative study to understand the illness and treatment burden of hearing loss across the life course
INTRODUCTION: Hearing loss is a chronic health condition that rises sharply with age. The way people respond to and cope with health conditions is influenced by their capacity to perform illness and treatment-related work. The aim was to explore the cumulative burdens of living with hearing loss and the resources mobilised to ease the burdens. METHODS: A qualitative design was used with semi-structured interviews (online or in-person) with partic…
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Thematic analysis (3 works)