Helen Pain
Biographic Data
| ID | 6698058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Pain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pain |
| SIGNATURE | PAIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1812-1324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Excluded by design
Innovations, especially those involving digital technologies, are expanding rapidly in health and social care in many countries around the world, but the extent to which the needs of underserved populations are considered is unclear. The aim of this study was to explore if and how socioeconomic health inequalities are considered in the design and delivery of health and social care innovations in the United Kingdom. A qualitative study using 23 se…
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
A Literature Review to Evaluate the Choice and Use of Visual Methods
Visual methods are accepted tools for qualitative research and are increasingly used in a wide range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, geography, and health care. A literature review was undertaken with the aims of understanding why visual methods are chosen for use in research, reviewing any evidence regarding outcomes arising from those choices, and reflecting on the role of visual methods in these outcomes. Searches conducted from…
Innovation in qualitative research methods
This article reviews claims for methodological innovation in qualitative research. It comprises a review of 57 papers published between 2000–9 in which claims to innovation in qualitative methods have been made. These papers encompass creative methods, narrative methods, mixed methods, online/e-research methods, focus groups and software tools. The majority of claims of innovation are made for new methods or designs, with the remainder claiming a…
Practice research
Practice research is not always clearly understood, and some aspects of it are a continuing source of debate. The literature, mainly in social work and published in the last decade, was searched and reviewed to discern key issues, any consensus of opinion, and practice research's role in the social work profession. Practice research is defined as encompassing all research that is directly related to practice or concerning the application of resea…
Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles
We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight to eleven years old rate JAPE-generated texts, human-generated texts, and non-joke texts for "jokiness" and funniness. This confirmed that JAPE's output texts are indeed jokes, and that there is …
Practice research
Practice research is not always clearly understood, and some aspects of it are a continuing source of debate. The literature, mainly in social work and published in the last decade, was searched and reviewed to discern key issues, any consensus of opinion, and practice research's role in the social work profession. Practice research is defined as encompassing all research that is directly related to practice or concerning the application of resea…
Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles
We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight to eleven years old rate JAPE-generated texts, human-generated texts, and non-joke texts for "jokiness" and funniness. This confirmed that JAPE's output texts are indeed jokes, and that there is …
Practice research
Practice research is not always clearly understood, and some aspects of it are a continuing source of debate. The literature, mainly in social work and published in the last decade, was searched and reviewed to discern key issues, any consensus of opinion, and practice research's role in the social work profession. Practice research is defined as encompassing all research that is directly related to practice or concerning the application of resea…
Innovation in qualitative research methods
This article reviews claims for methodological innovation in qualitative research. It comprises a review of 57 papers published between 2000–9 in which claims to innovation in qualitative methods have been made. These papers encompass creative methods, narrative methods, mixed methods, online/e-research methods, focus groups and software tools. The majority of claims of innovation are made for new methods or designs, with the remainder claiming a…
A Literature Review to Evaluate the Choice and Use of Visual Methods
Visual methods are accepted tools for qualitative research and are increasingly used in a wide range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, geography, and health care. A literature review was undertaken with the aims of understanding why visual methods are chosen for use in research, reviewing any evidence regarding outcomes arising from those choices, and reflecting on the role of visual methods in these outcomes. Searches conducted from…
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
Excluded by design
Innovations, especially those involving digital technologies, are expanding rapidly in health and social care in many countries around the world, but the extent to which the needs of underserved populations are considered is unclear. The aim of this study was to explore if and how socioeconomic health inequalities are considered in the design and delivery of health and social care innovations in the United Kingdom. A qualitative study using 23 se…
Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works) · Acknowledgement (1 work)