social scientist interested in families & health, long term health conditions, meta-ethnography & qualitative evidence synthesis. Views my own
Joined November 2012
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6 Mar 2025
Excited to share we're developing a new MRC funded reporting guideline for #Qualitative Evidence #Synthesis (QES), PRISMA QES, led by me & Jane Noyes of Bangor. Press release: lnkd.in/e8rjbdNm Study website: lnkd.in/eP28i2kT
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6 Mar 2025
Great to see this article from the @CSO_Scotland funded FLAMINGO study published on acute paediatric admissions. A highly productive and successful collaboration doi.org/10.1136/archdischild…
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10 Jun 2024
Struggling to find a tool for assessing methodological limitations of qualitative studies for a systematic review? New CAMELOT tool just published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Pleased to have contributed! @Stir_Research
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28 May 2024
Our @NIHRresearch CHAMPION study on children's chronic pain is described by our @BangorUni partners here: bangor.ac.uk/shs/news/resear…. We need a new approach to #pain management. @Stir_Research @drabbiejordan @LineCaes @LizForbat
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Emma France retweeted
The end of an era. After 30 years of research excellence @NMAHPRu CSO core funding finishes at the end of this month & with it a very productive & highly valued formal partnership between academics
from University of Stirling & Glasgow Caledonian University.
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26 Feb 2024
🆕 Get an introduction to qualitative evidence synthesis from the experts! 🤓 💻The new @cochranetrain Interactive Learning module will teach you how to systematically combine & analyse evidence from individual qualitative studies
➡️ Read more here! buff.ly/49CZeAd
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23 Feb 2021
Our paper just out today - all you ever wanted to know about QES but were afraid to ask- of help to students and novices alike
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis: Where Are We at? - Kate Flemming, Jane Noyes, 2021 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… @jane_noyes @CochraneQual
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29 Feb 2024
Today, on #RareDiseaseDay 2024 we are proud to introduce you to Georgina Ferguson-Glover, who lives with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
She shared 9 of her joys of living with this rare condition with us. Let's have a look at some of them [thread]:
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29 Feb 2024
Great example of innovation in research on families' experiences of children's chronic pain
@CHAMPIONProjec1
Cochrane review & meta-ethnography cochrane.org/CD014873
@uni_bangor, @Stir_Research, @Emma___France
@NIHRresearch
@jane_noyes
@drabbiejordan
healthandcareresearchwales.o…
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1 Mar 2024
The end of a productive & enjoyable month working on #metaethnography with the amazing Prof Terese Bondas @TBondas of @UniStavanger during her sabbatical in Stirling, joined by the excellent Prof Bente Dahl for 2 days! @Stir_Research @NMAHPRu
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19 Jan 2024
Want to know more about research looking at families' experiences of children's chronic pain? Listen to our short podcast about our @CHAMPIONProjec1 Cochrane review & meta-ethnography cochrane.org/CD014873
@Stir_Research @NIHRresearch @NMAHPRu @jane_noyes @drabbiejordan
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Emma France retweeted
7 Feb 2023
Read our data linkage paper in @ADC_BMJ here:
"Insights from and limitations of data linkage studies: analysis of short-stay urgent admission referral source from routinely collected Scottish data"
@PatHoddinott @Emma___France @DrCMalcolm @LornaAucott
adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…
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Emma France retweeted
7 Feb 2023
And our qualitative research in @PLOSONE here:
"Short stay hospital admissions for an acutely unwell child: a qualitative study of outcomes that matter to parents and professionals"
@PatHoddinott @Emma___France @DrCMalcolm @LornaAucott @FlamingoStudy
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
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14 Dec 2023
📢The Champion study, led by Dr Emma France
@StirUni & involving @MaySilveira7, now based in
@NCPHWR_Wales found children are often left without effective pain management and struggle to access support from health services.
Read more 👉stir.ac.uk/news/2023/12/rese……
#ChronicPain
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18 Dec 2023
An infographic of some recommendations for managing children's chronic pain in primary care from our NIHR-funded @CHAMPIONProjec1 & #Cochrane systematic review cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi…
@rcgp @theRCN @Stir_Research
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Emma France retweeted
15 Dec 2023
'Researchers call for changes to tackle chronic pain in children' - @CHAMPIONProjec1
study from @uniofbath @BathPsychology @BathCPR's @drabbiejordan published via @CochraneLibrary ➡️ bit.ly/46YaZQ2 w/@Emma___France @MaySilveira7 @jane_noyes @LineCaes @IsaUNY @LizForbat
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Emma France retweeted
We have started work on our latest #NESSIE project!
See ed.ac.uk/usher/nessie/our-pr… for more detail & read our blog on why it is important blogs.ed.ac.uk/nessie/2023/1…
#evidencesynthesis #bestevidence #evidencebased #EvidenceBasedPractice #evidencedbasedresearch #evidenceinformedpractice
ALT image contains dark purple column on the left hand side with interconnecting light purple and light blue lines, the Nessie logo (an abstract dark purple loch ness monster) and text stating “Drug and alcohol treatment orders for improving health outcomes for adults mandated to participate in treatment as part of non-custodial sentence conditions. See #NESSIE webpages for more details“
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15 Dec 2023
Our animation designed with & for children & young people with chronic pain is now online! It presents findings from our #NIHR research @CHAMPIONProjec1 in an engaging way youtube.com/watch?v=Oz5I7xKY…
@NIHRresearch @Stir_Research @Stirling_Health @PainConcern @VersusArthritis
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