University of Glasgow

Faculty Member, General Practice and Primary Care

Institute of Health & Wellbeing

About

I am a medical sociologist with a particular interest in qualitative research methods.

I have a broad interest in narratives of health and illness and social inequalities. Much of my focus in early work was on gender and health, exploring the relationship between masculinities and men's experiences of illness and health care seeking(MRC-funded PhD, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow).

More recently I have begun to develop an interest in using qualitative research methods to help develop primary care-based complex interventions. I have led qualitative work in a programme which aims to address unmet need in male cancer patients (Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford). I currently lead the qualitative work for Living Well with Multimorbidity. This is a four year programme of research, drawing heavily on qualitative research methods along with other methodologies, to develop a complex intervention to support self-management in multimorbid patients living in deprived areas of Scotland.

My methodological interests include: ethnographic research; participatory approaches; narrative analysis; grounded theory.



For futher information about current & previous projects:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/generalpracticeprimarycare/ourstaff/rosaleenobrien/

http://www.primarycare.ox.ac.uk/research/cancerresearch

http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/index.php/research-programmes/gh/mmh/mascul.html

Methodological training completed:
Social Research Methods
http://www.lse.ac.uk/methodologyInstitute/Home.aspx

PhD Medical Sociology
http://www.mrc.ac.uk

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