Enhanced Member Checks: Reflections and Insights from a Participant-Researcher Collaboration

The interactive researcher as a virtual participant: A Habermasian interpretation

This article explores the role of the interactive researcher by drawing on Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action to develop the concept of virtual participant. An ideal interactive research project is used to explore the issues faced by interactive researchers in three phases – initial, implementation and conclusion. In each phase, an interactive research project is used to demonstrat...

Informed Consent Process: Foundation of the Researcher-participant Bond

Consenting to participate in a clinical research study after being properly and correctly informed upholds the basic ethical principle of "autonomy" in human research. The informed consent is a process by which the physician sensitizes the patient about the nature, procedures, risks benefits, treatment schedules, etc of the study in a language that is non-technical and understandable by the stu...

The gap between academia and practice: reflections from a nurse researcher.

Challenges and Strategies in Collaborative Working with Service User Researchers: Reflections from the Academic Researcher

In this article, the authors consider the lessons to be drawn from a collaborative twoyear research project involving academic researchers working alongside three service user research organisations. The joint working on the project involved designing a research tool and conducting interviews with users of services that were provided by health and social services partnerships. Questions arising...

Student Reflections on Interprofessional Education: Moving from Concepts to Collaboration.

PURPOSE We analyzed student reflection essays to evaluate the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum on what students value and personally learn from their participation. METHODS After completing a 2-year IPE curriculum in the Health Mentors Program (HMP), while partnered with a mentor with chronic disease(s), 264 students from six health professions submitted personal refl...