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Evaluation of the Service Children's Champion role in supporting children from armed forces families
Funder: Brunel University of London: Research and Development Office Innovation Voucher
Duration: October 2025 - March 2025

The Service Children's Champion (SCC) role at North Yorkshire Council (NYC), established in 2012, is the only appointment of this type in the country. The aim of this project is to work in collaboration with the SCC to evaluate their unique programme of activities designed and implemented to support children from armed forces families and those working with them. It will provide the data to illustrate the crucial impact of the role and: 1. Support a business case for future funding through the council to make it a sustainable and permanent role at NYC. 2. Inform the development of the programme, tools and processes. 3. Offer other councils’ ideas to support the work they are mandated to undertake for the children from armed forces families. 4. Create a blueprint for the SCC role and evidence for the rationale for the introduction of SCC role in other councils.

Getting to the heart of patient stories: developing doctors’ use of narrative inquiry for praxis and phronesis in postgraduate medical education
Funder: The Della Fish Foundation
Duration: August 2025 - January 2026

This research project foregrounds the significance of doctors getting to the heart of patient stories to inform wise decision-making. In this project ‘getting to the heart of patient stories’ means listening and responding wisely (with compassion and analytical rigour). We will run a one-day research workshop with medical educators involved in postgraduate education. In the workshop we will explore and develop participants’ knowledge, skills and expertise in educating foundation doctors in narrative inquiry, recognising its crucial role in praxis and phronesis. Narrative inquiry is an established methodological activity and, in this project, refers to the process of interpreting the stories told to doctors by patients and the stories told by others about each patient (e.g. family and other healthcare providers).

Children from armed forces families: a literature review
Funder: Brunel University of London (Research England) - Mid-Career Funding
Duration: March 2025 - June 2025

This request for funding is to facilitate the completion of a literature review in the area of ‘children from armed forces families’ where there is currently very little research. The report from our project entitled ‘‘Grown Up’ Children from Armed Forces Families’ will be published in January 2025 and this funding will facilitate the key next steps in preparation for REF outputs and impact work. The proposed literature review will provide the foundation for journal articles, a grant funding application to upscale the pilot project that has led to the report, and other dissemination activities. The money will be used to employ a suitably qualified post-doc to complete the literature review to support the presentation of the findings of the data already collected.

Children from Armed Forces Families: A Literature Review
Funder: Brunel University of London and Research England
Duration: February 2025 - June 2025

This funding is to facilitate the completion of a literature review in the area of ‘children from armed forces families’ where there is currently very little research

‘Grown up’ children from military families: reflections on experiences of childhood and education
Funder: Global Lives Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Duration: January 2021 - August 2021

This project is exploring the experiences of 'grown up' children from military families who are 'missing' from the current profile of research about the military community.

The Experiences of Students from Military Families
Funder: Access and Participation Fund
Duration: June 2020 - September 2020
An exploration of the experiences of undergraduate commuter students
Funder: Access and Participation Fund
Duration: September 2019 - March 2020
‘Beyond a Joke’: Comedy and Critical Thought
Funder: Brunel University London: Research Seminar Series Award
Duration: October 2018 - May 2019

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