Chai-Ping Yu - PhD Student
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Qualitative research design |
| Sample size estimation |
| Qualitative data analysis |
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My job is to provide administrative support to the Trent RDSU staff Nottingham and also to the:
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire Research Alliance
Nottingham Business Group
Regional Primary Care Special Interest Group
I will also be dealing with:
Data collection
Member of the Marketing Group
Event organisation
Before children I was an analytical chemist and prior to coming to the Trent Focus in 2000 worked as a Clinical Governance facilitator at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. After children I enjoy travelling, genealogy and am involved with an Osprey conservation project.
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I am the Primary Care Lead for research & development support in the counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. I bring to the post both academic and NHS management experience. My research expertise might be described as “having a very broad based understanding of research needs in primary health care”, drawing on personal research experiences and methodologies used in the disciplines of Biological Sciences, Continuing Education and Health Promotion.
In my role I have focused my research to studies where I work along side primary care researchers and practitioners who are employed by the NHS, contributing understanding of both setting and skills. This has led to the development of my own knowledge in a number of new areas including diabetes and mental health and rehabilitation.
I have many years experience as a facilitator and adult educator and think that these skills are used equally with my research skills to bring about the co-ordination of the research activity of the two widely different counties in which I work.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Obtaining funding (project grants or personal awards/fellowships) |
| Qualitative research design |
| Quantitative research design |
| Ethics, research governance |
| Consumer involvement |
| Literature searching / appraisal |
| Data collection processes including forms / surveys / focus groups |
| Qualitative data analysis |
| Quantitative data analysis |
| Research presentations, writing a paper, dissemination |
| I can help on most issues specified especially with regards to primary care |
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Advice and Support Administrator.
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I joined Trent RDSU (formerly Trent Institute) on a full time basis in 1997 in the role of course administrator/secretary, then progressed to the Administrator for the Nottingham unit of Trent Institute. I was appointed as Unit Administrator for Trent RDSU (Nottingham) in May 2005 and my main responsibilities are:
Supervision of admin support team
Day to day co-ordination of admin staff and University systems
Admin support to Director of Trent RDSU (Nottingham)
Overall management of finances
Management and co-ordination of personnel records and procedures
Organising conferences and away days
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I am a medically trained epidemiologist with research methodology expertise. Before joining Trent RDSU I worked for 20 years for the Medical Research Council’s Institute of Hearing Research. My research experience is based around the epidemiological study of all aspects of permanent childhood hearing impairment and my MD was a study of hearing impairment following bacterial meningitis in children. My current research interests are in health technology assessment broadly and specifically in screening services, child health and audiology. Details of current research collaborations and publications can be found on the Nottingham University staff webpages.
Within the training provision for the RDSU in Nottingham I am the course co-ordinator for the MSc in Health Services Research and module co-ordinator for the certificate level module on dissemination. I contribute to short courses and New Researchers training in research methodology, dissemination and the principles and practice of ethical approval.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Obtaining funding (project grants or personal awards/fellowships) |
| Ethics, research governance |
| Data collection processes including forms / surveys / focus groups |
| Research presentations, writing a paper, dissemination |
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Paul is a Research Fellow in Qualitative Methods who joined the Trent RDSU in March 2007. He is a sociologist by background who has an interest in the application of concepts such as social exclusion and social capital to health and social care research and service delivery. Paul also has an interest in community research and the development of community as an important concept in social and healthcare provision. Prior to joining the RDSU Paul was based in the School of Nursing, University of Nottingham where he was involved in the evaluation of a number of local Sure Start programmes in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. He was part of team who organised a successful national Sure Start conference (Learning form Sure Start – a national conference of local evaluation, Nottingham, June 2006 ), and is currently, with colleagues, editing a book about the Sure Start experience (Schneider, Avis & Leighton (2007), Jessica Kingsley Publishing). Paul’s current research activity is focused upon the delivery of multi-agency social and healthcare support to families, with a specific interest in the transition from Sure Start local programmes to Children’s Centres in a number of geographic sites in the Midlands and North-west of England. Paul has a particular interest in the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of qualitative research and can offer support and training in these areas. He can also offer training and support more broadly in the process of qualitative research – from research design and planning, to methods of data collection and data handling, and the principles and practice of data analysis.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Qualitative research design |
| Qualitative data analysis |
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I am a health economist within the Nottingham unit of the Trent RDSU. After studying economics at Bradford University, I had a brief career in private banking with Barclays Bank, before taking an MSc in Health Economics at York University.
At the Trent RDSU, I help provide advice and support in health economics.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
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I'm a medical statistician with a broad experience in teaching and supporting NHS health service researchers. I have a general interest in medical statistics, particularly relating to the design and analysis of randomised controlled trials. I am involved in the Trent RDSU statistical advice and support clinics.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Quantitative research design |
| Sample size estimation |
| Quantitative data analysis |
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I am Primary Care Organisations Co-ordinator for the Trent RDSU, working with the Primary Care Trusts and their R&D leads across the Trent RDSU patch. The focus of the role is to help support the development of research management capacity within PCTs, primarily through the 10 new Research Management and Governance (RM&G) partnerships. This is done through the provision of information and advice and the facilitation of local and national networking and information sharing.
I chair the Trent PCT(RM&G) Leads Group which provides a forum for R&D Managers to discuss issues related to the research management agenda. I am also Facilitator for the national Primary Care Working Group of the NHS R&D Forum. Through this Group I have contributed to the development of the Forum Research Governance Tool Kit for Primary Care Trusts.
Prior to joining the organisation in December 2001 I was Head of R&D at Nottingham Community Health (NHS) Trust for 6 years with responsibility for the NHS R&D Support Funding contract. I was also involved in steering the early development of the Nottingham Primary Care Research Partnership. I originally trained as a Speech and Language Therapist and managed a large S< service in Nottingham for 5 years before moving into research and development.
As well as in-depth knowledge of Research Governance and management issues and experience of developing and supporting research capacity and culture in primary care, I have a long term interest in the application of research to practice and service settings.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Ethics, research governance |
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I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Quantitative research design |
| Ethics, research governance |
| Literature searching / appraisal |
| Sample size estimation |
| Quantitative data analysis |
| Research presentations, writing a paper, dissemination |
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I provide part time administrative support to primary care staff within the Nottingham Unit, promoting research and development in primary health care. The work has a mainly organisational content responding to general issues and administrative matters primarily supporting Gill Sarre, Primary Care Organisation Co-ordinator with the RM&G Group, Rachel Johnson, Training Co-ordinator and other staff as required.
Key Tasks
• Organising and servicing the Research Education and Support Group Meeting and PCT (RM&G) Leads Meeting
• Conference organising, providing administrative support to the Co-ordinators taking bookings from delegates and preparing materials/delegate packs for conferences, workshops and seminars
• Producing promotional materials for all training initiatives using Word and PowerPoint
• Developing and maintaining databases
• Organising large mail shots for Trent RDSU activities
• Developing and maintaining filing systems, office based and computerised
• Dealing with enquiries
• Liaison with Leicester and Sheffield primary care leads and support staff
I joined the organisation in April 1995 where I worked part time, and part time for the Division of Primary Care Research Support Unit as a Clerical Research Assistant.
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After undertaking her undergraduate degree in Behavioural Sciences, Dawn then completed an MSc in Research Methodology and Statistics in Psychology at Bristol. Her thesis looked at memory function in Alzheimer’s disease. Upon completing this, Dawn then went to work as a research assistant on the Epidemiology of Psychosis in Childhood study at the University of Nottingham where she also started her part-time PhD. Dawn has now finished her PhD titled, ‘Cognitive function in early-onset psychosis’ and is in the process of disseminating the findings and applying for grants. Dawn started work for the former Trent Institute for Health Services Research at the end of 2002 where she organises and lectures on the courses run by the Trent RDSU while continuing to develop research in her own interest area.
Professional Activities
• Organising and designing the New Researchers Training Programme course
• Organising and designing the short course programme
• Supervising dissertations
• Consultancy
• Member of the British Psychological Society
• Member of the University of Nottingham, School of Nursing, Joanna Briggs Institute for Systematic Reviews
Research Interests
• Mental Illness
• Cognitive Function
• Systematic Reviews
• Consumers Involved in Research
• Health Psychology
• Complimentary Medicine
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Quantitative research design |
| Consumer involvement |
| Literature searching / appraisal |
| Data collection processes including forms / surveys / focus groups |
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I am a PhD student in health economics and health sciences at the Nottingham Unit of the Trent RDSU. I am currently writing up my PhD thesis, which addresses how equitable the financing of health care is in Malaysia. In addition to generating evidence, the research exemplified that a comprehensive assessment of the equity impact in health care financing is crucial for policy purposes. Having analysed the Household Expenditure Survey dataset, using Stata statistical software package and World Bank's Quantitative Technique for Health Equity Analysis, I have developed a particular interest in quantitative research.
I am able to give advice in the following areas:
| Health economics |
| Health policy |
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