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Dr Rachel Barnard, PhD

Rachel

Email: r.barnard@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I am a Research Fellow with a background in speech and language therapy and applied health research. I am currently working on a project funded by the Barts Charity Research Seed Grant: "Let’s Talk Differently about Medicines: Exploring story-sharing groups to support older people affected by polypharmacy". The research is being conducted in collaboration with Care City; an East London-based community interest organisation with a remit to improve healthy ageing.

We will explore how, to what extent, and under what conditions a community-based group intervention prompts personal story-sharing, collective sensemaking and action relating to polypharmacy in the context of ageing. The research is underpinned by a collection of illustrated fictional stories co-designed with older adults. 

Research

Research Interests:

I use a wide range of qualitative methods to explore the experiences of service users and healthcare professionals, with a particular interest in ethnographic approaches.

Publications

  1. Barnard, R., Spooner, S., Hubmann, M., Checkland, K., Campbell, J., Swinglehurst, D. (2024). The hidden work of of general practitioners: An ethnography, Social Science & Medicine, 350, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116922
  2. Roper, A., Barnard, R., Cruice, M., Marshall, J., Mulholland, A., Neate, T. & Wilson, S. (2023) “Difficult but Good”: enjoying accessible digital creativity,Aphasiology. DOI: 1080/02687038.2022.2160624
  3. Gkiouleka, A., Aquino, M.R.J., Ojo-Aromokudu, O., van Daalen, K.R., Kuhn, I.L., Turner-Moss, E. Thomas, K., Barnard, R. Strudwick, R., Ford, J. (2022). Allied health professionals: A promising ally in the work against health inequalities- A rapid review. Public Health in Practice (3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2022.100269
  4. Barnard, , Cruice, M.& Jones, J. (2022). Managing ongoing swallow safety through information-sharing: an ethnography of speech and language therapists and nurses at work on stroke units. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 57(4):852-864 https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/27976/
  5. Barnard, R., Cruice, M.& Jones, J. (2022). Addressing patients’ communication support needs through SLP-nurse information-sharing: employing ethnography to understand the acute stroke context. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/27737/
  6. Barnard, R. (2022). Time for talk: The work of reflexivity in developing empirical understanding of speech and language therapist and nursing interaction on stroke wards. In C.M. Hayre, D.J. Muller, P.M.W. Hackett (Eds). Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives. Springer. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/27738/
  7. Skeat, J., Barnard, R., Hudson, K., Melvin, K., Meyer, C., & Scarinci, N. (2021). Reanalysing qualitative data: Using meta-synthesis approaches to bring qualitative data together. In R. Lyons, L. McAllister, C. Carroll, D. Hersh, & J. Skeat. (Eds). Diving deep into Qualitative Data analysis in Communication Disorders Research. Guildford, UK: J&R Press.
  8. Northcott, S., Simpson, A., Thomas, S., Barnard, R., Burns, K., Hirani, S., Hilari, K. (2021) “Now I am myself’”: exploring how people with post-stroke aphasia experienced Solution Focused Brief Therapy within the SOFIA Trial. Qualitative Health Research, 31(11), 2041-2055. DOI: 1177/10497323211020290
  9. Northcott, S., Thomas, S., James, K., Simpson, A., Hirani, S.P., Barnard, R. & Hilari, K. (2021). Solution Focused brief therapy In post-stroke Aphasia (SOFIA): feasibility and acceptability results of a feasibility randomised wait-list controlled trial. BMJ Open https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/26437/
  10. Barnard, R., Cruice, M. & Jones, J. (2021). When interactions are also interruptions: an ethnographic study of information-sharing by speech and language therapists and nurses on stroke units. Disability and Rehabilitation [online]. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2021.1871785. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25475/
  11. Barnard, R., Cruice, M. & Jones, J. (2020). Communication between therapists and nurses working in inpatient interprofessional teams: Systematic review and meta-ethnography. Disability and Rehabilitation, 4(18), 1-11. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/20722/
  12. Barnard, R., Cruice, M.N. & Playford, E.D. (2010). Strategies used in pursuit of achievability during goal setting in inpatient neurorehabilitation. Qualitative Health Research, 20, 239-50. DOI: 1177/1049732309358327. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/1272/.
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