In my research circles the number of healthcare professionals who are occupational therapist (OT) who I know of who do research are rare. When I visited Sweden, I met an OT who was doing research, of course I invited her to be a guest. This episode surprised me in many ways, but you need to listen to what Dr Maria Andreassen to find out.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Your pathway will have surprises

2) Is a research group key to developing as a researcher?

3) Is your research informing more supportive and personalised care?

Bio: Maria is a university lecturer in occupational therapy at Linkoping University and the associate director of the graduate school, Integrated care in the South-East healthcare region. The goal of her research is to conduct studies that aim to give people with chronic diseases the environments for activity and participation in everyday life activities. She has interest in studying digital technology that can create opportunities for activity, participation and health. She completed her PhD in 2021, which was titled: "Digital support for people with cognitive impairment: An intervention to increase the occupational performance in everyday life". She is now working on a research project developing and investigating exer-games with the aim of increasing people’s physical activity (https://liu.se/forskning/heart-exg).

Find online:

Website: https://liu.se/en/employee/maran73

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-andreassen-413704159/

Read Maria’s Research:

1) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2024.2318397

2) Thesis: https://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1581383/FULLTEXT01.pdf

3) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11038128.2021.1917654

4) https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/7/2222

Maria is reading:

“Offer 2117” by Jussi Adler-Olsen, but her favourite book is “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman.

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures Dr Rosalynn Austin takes while travelling - check out her YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Dr Maria Andreassen) and not that of any of affiliated institutions.

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To start the second year, I have invited my first non-researcher guest. Gary Reed is not a researcher. Why have him as a guest? You may have noticed that a lot of guests spoke about the role of mentor’s and coaches in their journey as a researcher. Gary’s name came up in my conversation a previous episode (behind the scenes) as someone who has experience in coaching clinical academic researchers. We speak about the importance of coaches in a researcher’s journey.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Power of networks

2) Coaching is like research

3) Privilege of finding your purpose

Bio: Gary is a qualified leadership coach and an EMCC Accredited Coach at Senior Practitioner level. He provides leadership coaching, career coaching, hiking and coaching, and leadership course design and facilitation. Gary has developed The Leadership Tree model of authentic leadership to support his work.

Find Gary online:

Website: https://www.carregcoaching.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garymreed

Read Gary’s Resources:

https://www.carregcoaching.co.uk/theleadershiptree

Gary is reading:

Fiction: The Wild Hunt by Elisabeth Chadwick

Non-fiction: Coaching What Really Works by Jenny Rogers

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures @researcherrevealed takes while travelling by checking out her other YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Gary Reed) and not that of any of affiliated institutions.

Chapters

00:00:00 Titles

00:00:10 Introductions

00:03:19 Rapid 11

00:11:12 Gary’s background in research

00:22:04 The post PhD cliff

00:33:00 Gary’s leadership tree

00:43:30 Coaching as a tool

00:54:10 Imposter syndrome

01:00:36 Gary’s practical tips

01:04:06 Top Takeaways

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Last episode for year 1 of Researcher Revealed. It is time we find out more about the host! Dr Lindsay Welch takes over as host for this celebratory episode. She puts Dr Rosalynn Austin in the hot seat. From a not so rapid 11 to unraveling the mysteries of post doc life. She takes Rosalynn on a deep dive into what life as a nurse researcher is like after cmopleting a PhD.

Top 3 Takeaways

Your turn! You tell me what were your top 3 takeaways?

Bio: Dr Rosalynn Austin is a Canadian trained nurse who splits her time between University of Stavanger in Norway and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. In Norway she is a part of the PROHEALTH group who is conducting an eHealth project targeting the vulnerable time or transition from hospital 2 home for people with chronic illnesses. In Portsmouth she works in the cardiology department to build a collaborative and interdisciplinary research group focused on cardiovascular health and heart failure.

Find Rosalynn online:

University Profile page: https://www.uis.no/nb/profile/rosalynn-austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Read Rosalynn’s Research:

https://academic.oup.com/eurjcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae119/7742016

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/7/e047060.abstract

https://bjcardio.co.uk/2024/02/rewriting-the-heart-failure-pillars-toward-less-burdensome-heart-failure-care-pathways/

Full list https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=yfxhtCQAAAAJ

Rosalynn is reading:

Meet Me in Monaco by Heather Webb and Hazel Gaynor

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Rosalynn Listens to

Nora en Pure https://youtu.be/kA88lgNe4CQ?si=cCeQqNuMiO1AhtUG

Elderbrook https://youtu.be/WibjzL3fF1o?si=KM0xhD0-oiTUp8bM

Korolova https://youtu.be/dAp0XA8wRw0?si=JRwlj0prZw3R-A8i

Rosalynn’s current favorite AI Tools

Perplexity

Elcit

Rosalynn’s data vis tool

Draw.io

Flyt (flytbuilder.com) --- coming soon

More about Bullet Journalling

https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book?srsltid=AfmBOoos7cMm7Aw95a-HX1T52JVjypytXCyrobmHeWW_sZeV3t0iN7oq

Special thank you to Dr Lindsay Welch for hosting this celebratory episode!

Experience Dr Rosalynn Austin’s adventure while travelling! Checking out her YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

Podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Dr Lindsay Welch) and not that of any affiliated institutions.

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Did you know that in Sweden there is a word to describe a PhD funded by industry partnerships? On today’s episode we talk to an “industridoktorand” who is an engineer currently working on completing his PhD in medicine! It is a interesting research journey with challenges to build in multiple perspectives and carefully consider what is measured in research studies?

Top 3 Takeaways

1) There are multiple ways to fund a PhD, don’t give up if the traditional methods fail.

2) Different perspectives may help challenge accepted “truth”

3) Does a randomised control trial matter?

Bio: Andreas Blomqvist grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied electrical engineering in college and received his master’s degree in 2004. After working in digital signal processing in the research department at St. Jude Medical (later procured by Abbott). From the beginning of this career he was involved in clinical research. He then developed his own company with a colleague and they invented and patented an mHeath tool aimed at improving the self-care behaviour in elderly people with heart failure. After spending all my professional career doing research. He is currently aiming to finish his PhD in November of 2024.

Find Andreas online:

University Profile page: https://liu.se/en/employee/andbl41

Company website: www.optilogg.com

Read Andreas’s Research:

1) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-024-02452-z

2) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071916421002451

Andreas is reading:

The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Haidt and Jonathan Lukianof

Heart Failure Association Congress Podcast:

https://youtu.be/P5wkXW_5I6A?si=fSN6MtbKD2_l6P_W

Popular Data Viz Tools (from podcast guests): MS Excel (n=4), Other people (n=3), Visio (n=2)

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience Dr Rosalynn Austin’s adventure while travelling! Checking out her YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

Podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Andreas Blomqvist) and not that of any of their affiliated institutions.

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He lives in France but works in Norway and the UK, Professor David Richards shares his journey how he became a researcher and is research interests from mental health to sustainability in research.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Don’t have a hero innovator, instead have hero’s that make research happen

2) Research requires academic currency which may have additional financial and personal costs

3) Divergent pathways will enrich your experience and increase your value

Bio: Professor David Richards works both at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter. He is also an emeritus Senior Investigator with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), an award which acknowledges David as being one of the top 200 health services researchers in the UK. He integrates experimental and observational research on complex interventions, to improve the usefulness of research for patients, informal carers, policy makers, and clinicians.

Find David online:

University of Exeter: https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?web_id=david_richards

Western University of Norway: https://www.hvl.no/en/employee/?user=David.A.Richards

Read David’s Research:

1) Richards et al, (2024). Balancing environmental sustainability with the social goals of scientific organisations. PLOS One accepted for publication.

2) Evaluation of a COVID-19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15959

3) ‘Shitty Nursing’– the new normal? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.12.018

4) Cost and Outcome of Behavioural Activation versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)31140-0/fulltext

5) Complex Interventions in Health: An Overview of Research Methods. London, Routledge (2015).

Futures NHS (UK only): NIHR Research Masterclass https://future.nhs.uk/NursingMidwiferyMasterclass/groupHome

David is reading

Amuse Bouche: How to eat your way around France by Carolyn Boyd

How they broke Britian by James O’Brien

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience Dr Rosalynn Austin's adventures while travelling on out her YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Professor David Richards) and not any of their affiliations.

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On today’s episode a Consultant Nurse who specialises in frailty within the community, Lynn MacDiarmid joined me to share her journey in research, so far. She had so many top tips in this episode one of which I am going to try and use more in my life. Listen to see if lessons she learned will be helpful to you.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) What is research?

2) Is research missing from nursing culture?

3) Who are your champions in your research journey?

Bio: Lynn works as a Consultant Nurse in the Community Hospitals in Leicester and Leicestershire. She worked in Community Hospitals as Ward Sister (since 2008) and as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (since 2015). She is currently undertaking an ARC East Midlands Match-funded part-time PhD on “Older Peoples’ Experiences Following Admission to the Emergency Department with an Acute Illness and the Potential for Unrecognised Trauma and Stress: An Interpretivist Phenomenological Enquiry.” She is passionate about: Advanced Practice; Older People; Mental Health in Physical Health settings; Clinical Academic Careers in Nursing; Equality, Diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice. She is a Vice Chair (EDI) for the Chief Nursing Officer’s Shared Professional Decision-Making Council – Research. She was a founding member of this council in 2020 and is constantly inspired by nurses in research.

Find Lynn on social media:

X (Twitter): https://x.com/LynnMacD89

Read Lynn’s Research:

1) Developing a portfolio for advanced practitioners working with older people. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab030.32

2) How can care staff get involved in research? https://rcni.com/nursing-older-people/evidence-and-practice/practice-question/how-can-nurses-and-carers-get-involved-research-180366

3) Why is blood pressure important in a falls risk assessment? https://rcni.com/nursing-older-people/evidence-and-practice/practice-question/why-blood-pressure-important-a-falls-risk-assessment-189571

Lynn is reading:

Denzin, N.K. and Lincoln, Y.S. (Editors) (2018) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. 5th Edition Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

X: https://x.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures Dr Rosalynn Austin takes while travelling by checking out her YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Lynn MacDiarmid) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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Dr Oluwadamilare Akingbade joined episode 16 to share his journey as a nurse researcher to date. He started his education at University of Ibadan, did his PhD at the Nethersole school of nursing the Chinese university of Hong Kong and is now at the University of Alberta. His journey inspired me, and I hope it will inspire you too.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Questioning the question as a key trait for researchers

2) Be a researcher at a global level

3) Believe in the power to “I can”

Bio: Oluwadamilare Akingbade is a community health nursing specialist who is passionate about impacting families and communities through research while building the capacity of nurses in scholarly endeavours. His education and development as a nurse researcher has taken him from Nigeria (BNSc &MSc), Hong Kong (PhD Nursing) to Canada (as a postdoctoral researcher). He was awarded an Alberta Innovates postdoctoral grant to develop a mobile app for psychoeducational support of Albertan women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy.

Damilare is highly committed to mentoring and inspiring nurses, a role he currently plays as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, Chrisland University, Nigeria. His research interests include telehealth, oncology, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health. An award-winning nurse, Damilare was named one of the top ten most inspiring male nurses in Nigeria in 2017 by Fellow Nurses Africa.

Find Damilare on social media:

X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Callednurse

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluwadamilare-akingbade-42403a84/

Read Damilare ’s Research:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oluwadamilare-Akingbade

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0tb1bSgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Damilare is reading:

The Business of the 21St Century

by Robert T.Kiyosaki

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures @researcherrevealed takes while travelling by checking out her other YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Dr Oluwadamilare Akingbade) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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On episode 15 I have a conversation with Dr Andrew Finney host and creator of the Nurse Researcher Podcast about his journey into research. He also shares why he started his podcast and how the Critically Appraised Topics (CAT) groups are having impact.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) An environment (work or clinical) can be an enabler to a research career

2) Research creates allies

3) You are where you are because of who you are

Bio: Dr Andrew Finney is a Keele Alumni who developed his nursing career in the specialist area of Rheumatology. In 2009 before being seconded to the then Research Institute for Primary Care Sciences in 2010 to undertake a full-time PhD funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). As a Post-doc, Andrew split his role between Keele's Schools of Nursing and Midwifery, where he led the 'Fundamentals of General Practice Nursing Programme' and the School of Medicine, where he has taken a senior role in their Impact Accelerator Unit. Andrew champions and leads in the field of primary care nursing research. He leads and hosts a critically appraised topic (CAT) group for primary care and community nurses.

Andrew hosts 'The Nurse Researcher Podcast' which aims to demystify research roles for nurses. Andrew was awarded a 2024 NIHR Senior Research Leader Award and in April 2024, he was promoted to 'Reader in Primary Care Nursing Research'.

Find Andrew on social media: Twitter: https://x.com/finbo1977

The Nurse Researcher Podcast: https://audioboom.com/channels/5109741-the-nurse-researcher-podcast

Read Andrews Research:

1) https://www.oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-4584(24)00018-9/fulltext

2) https://rcni.com/nurse-researcher/opinion/comment/how-to-deal-with-unsuccessful-research-bids-and-what-to-do-next-203816

3)

https://journals.rcni.com/primary-health-care/evidence-and-practice/use-of-video-group-consultations-by-general-practice-staff-during-the-covid19-pandemic-phc.2023.e1801/abs

Andrew is reading: Politics on the Edge: A memoir from within by Rory Stewart

Find Dr Rosalynn Austin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

Experience the adventures Dr Rosalynn Austin takes while travelling by checking out her second YouTube channel @stepbystepwalks

The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Dr Andrew Finney) and not that of any of the institutions that may be affiliated with.

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