Professor Louise Locock will open this semester's Sociology Seminar Series with her paper, entitled 'Drawing straight lines along blurred boundaries: Qualitative research, PPI in medical research, coproduction and co-design', to be held jointly online and on campus on February 9.
In the paper, Professor Locock explores how different approaches to active citizen involvement in biomedical research, including qualitative research, participatory research, co-design and co-production, is contentious and unclear.
In particular, Professor Locock will unpack the boundaries and overlaps between these approaches, and interrogate whether they are all prone to be challenged on the grounds of tokenism, "despite avowed good intentions".
Understanding what matters to patients is therefore crucial in designing interventions that are acceptable and rooted in the reality of patients’ daily lives
The paper draws on the article of the same name (2019) that is co-written with Professor Annette Boaz (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
Professor Locock is a qualitative social scientist, with particular interests in personal experience of health and illness, patient-centred quality improvement in the NHS, and patient and public involvement in health research.
Before joining Aberdeen in 2017, she was Director of Applied Research at the Health Experiences Research Unit, University of Oxford.
The Sociology Seminar Series will be taking place online and in MR310 in the MacRobert Building, on campus, between 3:30 and 5:00 p.m.. To obtain the link to attend online, please contact Dr Luisa Gandolfo.
For more details on upcoming talks in the series, visit the Sociology Seminar Series page, here.