Ellis, Mairghread JH

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A journey’s end, and a new road beckoning……Dr Mairghread Ellis(Prof Doc in Podiatry, University of Brighton)   Service development……a wide context…• As practitioner ….The voice of the patient, patient centred care,  accountability to patients• As educator….educating and developing students into  ‘fit for purpose’ graduates • As member of the profession of podiatry….disseminating good practice, knowledge transfer, advancing practice  So how has the “Prof Doc” helped  ME?• Research training• Development of personal qualities• Personal journey• Research areaResearch training• Podiatric context • Development of understanding of Qualitative approaches to research• Practical experience• Project management• Personal accountabilityDevelopment of personal qualities..• Questioning and challenging • Being comfy with being uncomfy • Doggedness/B*****mindedness• Openness to multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinary working • Planning is everything, but things still go wrong!• Confidence….in writingPersonal journey - reflection and reflexivity Through the looking glassHans Georg Gadamer Research area • Exploration of patient-podiatrist relationships• New area of research for the profession• As ever, didn’t find what one might expect!• Served to challenge my personal practice• Serves to challenge the profession…to reflectand debate.Study Findings• Approach - Hermeneutic phenomenology, 8 experienced practitioners• Relationship, Engagement, Role, Image Reward, Personal development• Overarching theme of Professionalism• Theory used to interpret – liminality, dramaturgy, and concept of macro and micro professionalismTheoretical sieving………• Dramaturgy positions us on the healthcare stage; who’s the actor, who’s the audience?• Liminality positions the profession, marginality, inferiority/superiority, betwixt and between Continued………..• Aspects of micro (face to face) and macro (face to world) professionalism leads us to the crux of the thesis• That professionalism is an individual state, and it is professional to care (and not unprofessional over involvement!)And new roads beckoning…….What’s next?• Collaboration with AHP colleague• Research design/Qualitative approach within a mixed method study• Potential to press ‘loads of buttons’, for example - interprofessional collaboration within School of HealthSciences, QMU- utilises development of qualitative approaches in an areatraditionally with a more quantitative mindset- Service delivery the patient journey- pilot work for a larger grant applicationBrighton “Prof Doc” has …. • Has informed and developed my practice, my teaching, my research skills, and myself as an individual.• It has enhanced networking, formed friendships, illuminated and facilitated collaboration. 

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