Wednesday 10th March 2021, 16:30-17:30
What prompts someone to want to undertake doctoral studies? What were my expectations of doing a PhD at the outset? What are the highs and lows of doing a part-time PhD while working fulltime? After completing, do the realities match the expectations? In this presentation Matthew Johnson will present a personal reflection of his PhD voyage spent exploring communication around recurrence risk after lung cancer surgery. The webinar will focus on Matthew undertaking this qualitative case study while working full time in a largely clinical role and will explore some of the highs, as well as some of the lows along the way. Using this personal perspective Matthew will also talk about the study itself and indicate some of the key findings and outcomes from the project as well as evaluating what completion of this huge piece of work has offered in professional, personal and career terms, and what have been the costs.
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Speakers
Matthew Johnson
Matthew works as Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, leading a small team of thoracic oncology nurses. He qualified as a nurse in 1988 and undertook his oncology training at Christie Hospital in Manchester. He has worked in several London hospitals, but rarely far away from patients with cancers of the lung. Having contemplated starting doctoral studies for many years, he was seduced into starting in earnest in 2014 when the National Forum for Lung Cancer Nurses (now LCNUK) advertised a PhD studentship, supervised by Prof Angela Tod. He lives with a long-suffering husband, two cats and his post-PhD puppy..
Janelle Yorke
Professor Yorke was appointed as Executive Chief Nurse and Director of Quality in April 2020. She continues to hold the inaugural joint Chair in Cancer Nursing with the University of Manchester and The Christie, commencing May 2015. In 2016, she founded Christie Patient Centred Research (CPCR) and continues to lead this multi-professional group of Christie researchers and students. During that time she also developed the bespoke Christie Clinical Academic Pathway (CCAP) supporting combined clinical and research pathways for cancer nurses and allied health professionals. She is Deputy Chair of Supportive and Palliative Care research at University of Manchester. She has secured research grants over £6M as a lead investigator and £20M as a co-investigator. Professor Yorke has particular expertise in the development and utilisation of Patient Reported Outcome - and Experience - Measures (PROMS/PREMS). She is internationally recognised as an expert in PROM work; her work includes symptom specific and quality of life measures that have been translated into more than 30 different languages. She chairs The Christie ePROM group, leading the implementation of electronic PROMs into routine clinical care. Professor Yorke holds numerous leadership roles including Chair of Lung Cancer Nurses UK research group, outgoing Chair for the British Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society nursing groups, and previous Chair of the American Thoracic Society nursing group. She is dedicated to the clinical-academic development of nurses and allied health professionals to benefit patient care and the wider health care setting.