Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context

Liz Tilly is Founder and Director of Building Bridges Training, West Midlands, UK, and Senior Lecturer in Social Care, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK. Liz is strongly committed to the full inclusion of people with learning disabilities in all aspects of life and has had regular professional and social contact with people with learning disabilities for many decades.

• 1. Introduction. 2. Using mixed methods in health and social care research. 3. Inclusive research – as a strategy for improving inclusive communities. 4. Using online surveys to capture health and social care data. 5. Using interviews and focus groups to investigate the effectiveness of mentoring in a UK healthcare trust. 6. Making sense of complexity: using thematic analysis to understand the role of the foster carer. 7. Participatory approaches to building knowledge. 8. Dialogical narrative analysis of practice-based educators’ stories of student placements. 9. An ethnographic approach to researching the communication of people with severe learning disabilities 10. Exploring perceptions of professional expertise within a health and social care context. 11. Health and social care inequalities in relation to ethnicity; British South Asian men and nursing careers.