🚨NEWSFLASH 🚨 Implementation Science journal is removing the checklist requirement for qualitative research submissions. - Less rigidity -Greater methodological/analytic diversity -Shift away from deductive framework approaches. Editorial explaining all this 👇👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm running an Edinburgh workshop this November on creative qualitative analysis, complete with art trips, chocolate tasting and emoji analysis! Details here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho... #qualitative #research #Edinburgh #training

Best day of my @nihr.bsky.social fellowship so far today Time spent with social scientists and methodologists doing excellent work and pushing us to think hard Thanks team @bcqr.bsky.social @laurasheard.bsky.social

“I’ve just been published and I feel…” patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i... #AcademicSky

Improving access to healthcare for people in marginalised positions - be that those accessing food aid, people in prisons - drives @laurasheard.bsky.social 's research focus on #healthinequalities. Discover more here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/l... #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall

Anxiety about giving a 30 minute keynote talk = 0.1/10 Anxiety about being able to successfully 'share' the presentation on MS Teams without error, backtracking or swearing = 100/10

Ah academia, possibly the only sector where attending a symposium for essential learning is considered a "treat" to be away from your computer, only to arrive home after said event and then do seven hours actual work

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

📢📢 Qualitative researchers 📢📢 Does your research involve an interpretative approach? Are you working on a topic connected to public health? Submit an abstract to our one day FREE to attend symposium in Bradford in October 👇👇 Can't wait to read your abstracts 😍

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨NEW: US prisons & jails are locking up MORE people after a decade of decline, growing the incarcerated population by 2% But why? We answer that & bust the biggest myths of the carceral system in 2025's edition of Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie👇 buff.ly/NDqIQ2i

Happy Fishy Database Return Day to all UK academics! May your "account temporarily locked" status be swift and it never come to pass that you press submit without including that obscure talk you forgot all about.

PhD student: I read 12 papers this week, new knowledge is amazing Assistant Prof: I read the journal club paper Associate Prof: I read the journal club paper abstract Prof: I know what I like and I like what I know

Week 6: We looked at how to present methods in a succinct yet clear way - always a challenge for qualitative research! I remember have a Twitter discussion with I think @laurasheard.bsky.social about protocol papers…

🎙️ Fully funded PhD studentship University of Birmingham @ Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science, Evidence Based Surgery Group. University of Birmingham 🤓 Supervisors me, @amylougrove.bsky.social & Adrian Gardner (Royal Orthopaedic Hospital). 🚀 Details via:https://lnkd.in/ezG4K3Qn

I have moved from University of York to University of Manchester as of earlier this week. I have the ace new job title of "Reader" 😎😎 Also....Spring has sprung in Bradford ☀️☀️