Professor Alison Pilnick, from Manchester Metropolitan University, discusses her award-winning book, “Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and abandonment”. As well as sharing her journey into research and she gives Masterclass on Conversation Analysis.
Top 3 Takeaways
1) Opportunity: Be open to the journey that research might take you on
2) Consider what is the actual evidence base, do a deep dive into the robustness of the evidence guiding policy and pathways in healthcare services
3) Complex methods are like riding a bike, hard to explain but easier once you get stuck in. Access resources to support your learning around a given research method.
Bio: Alison Pilnick is the Professor of Language, Medicine and Society in the Faculty of Health and Education at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a sociologist of health and illness with a specific interest in communication between professionals and their patients and clients in health and social care. She has worked with a wide range of professionals across a diverse range of care settings both in the UK and overseas, using audio and video recordings to examine interactions and to inform and develop communication skills training. She has published 4 books and over 60 journal articles. Her most recent book, ‘Reconsidering patient centred care: between autonomy and abandonment’ was published in 2022 and draws on the work she carried out during a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship. The book was awarded the 2023 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness prize. Alison was selected as an Academy of Medical Sciences Future Leader in Innovation, Enterprise and Research in 2020-21.
Find Alison on social media:
Twitter: @AlisonPilnick
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alison-pilnick-438a8b5b/
Read Alison’s Research:
‘Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment’: https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/210514129/reconsidering-patient-centred-care/alison-pilnick/ *use code EME30 for 30% discount.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hex.13834
What Alison read recently:
The Urban Brain https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178608/the-urban-brain
Explaining mental Illness https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/explaining-mental-illness
Sickening https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening
More resources about conversation analysis:
https://learn.lboro.ac.uk/ludata/cx/ca-tutorials/intro1.htm
https://emcawiki.net/Main_Page
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