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Dr Andy Pulman

Post Doctoral Researcher

I have been active in the field of qualitative research since commencing a PhD study in 2008. Working across both technology and health and social care fields since then, I have accumulated a wide range of research skills concerning devising and implementing mobile technological innovations in healthcare. This includes research projects involving helping young people with Type 1 Diabetes (my doctoral study completed in 2016); a global Malnutrition eLearning initiative at the University of Southampton; Multiple Sclerosis fatigue management technology implementation; and health and well-being behavioural transformation in a police force based in Wessex.

Alongside this work, I have also contributed to a variety of publications on technology, health and eLearning in addition to a 2009 pocket study skills book aimed at students – Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts & More.

More recently I have focused on research work around health inequalities and social care. Investigating the possible impacts of COVID-19 on reablement officers, workers and client and client family well-being; health inequalities in breast cancer screening and health services across Wessex – work undertaken on behalf of Wessex Voices; and generating deeper insights into the challenges of building capacity to undertake social care research across the sector – a one year study funded by the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) Wessex.

My social care research then continued, working closely with two local authorities within the Wessex region, higher education students, advocates and service users. This project explored local recruitment and retention issues in adult social care from the perspective of these groups. I also provided support to both LAs to apply for Research Champion funding to work alongside us on the project and become levers to promote research engagement and learning. The project completed in January 2024.

Since January 2024, I am splitting my time between two projects:

  • A twelve month MSRTE funded project (as a 0.1) led by Dr Sarah Thomas working as a part of the project team converting the FACETS Digital Toolkit for people with Multiple Sclerosis to IOS and blending app based therapy within the FACETS fatigue management programme.
  • A twenty month NIHR ARC Wessex funded project (as a 0.2) led by Professor Lee-Ann Fenge looking at developing opportunities for building research engagement and capacity across HEIs and the social care sector in Wessex and working with embedded researchers in social care organisations to build research capacity. This project has a particular focus on building carer research and engaging carers in developing and undertaking research, with work helping to inform the development of social care research within the NIHR ARC Wessex region.

Research and Recent Publications

Pulman, A. and Fenge, L.-A., 2023. Building Capacity for Social Care Research-Individual-Level and Organisational Barriers Facing Practitioners. British Journal of Social Work.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/38473/

Pulman, A. and Fenge, L.A., 2023. Building capacity for social care research–ways of improving research skills for social workers. Social Work Education.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/38641/

Pulman, A., Patterson, G., Newell, S. and Bond, S., 2022. Are health services working for everyone?. Wessex Cancer Alliance (Online): Wessex Voices. Available from: https://wessexcanceralliance.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Health-services-for-everyone.pdf

Pulman, A. and Newell, S., 2021. A systematic review of people’s experiences of breast screening – A rich and diverse picture. Wessex Voices Publications (Online): Wessex Voices. Available from: https://involvingpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/breast_screening_literature_review_summary_-_wessex_voices-1.pdf


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