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Professor Jan Fook
Director, Interprofessional Institute and Professor of Professional Practice Research
Room F5, Arts Building,
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham.
Research
IPI is building a research portfolio which encourages researchers from across the alliance to work collaboratively and innovatively to build on individual institutions’ research expertise.
IPI's portfolio includes the following areas of research expertise:
- The effect of organisational contexts on interprofessional practice
- The policy context of ethical professional practice
- The impact of innovation in work, new roles and information systems on patients, professionals, teams and organizations
- Public and patient relationships and engagement with professionals and research
- Race/ethnicity and inequalities in health
- Children/families and their support networks
- Risk, and its social construction - legal and ethical issues regarding consent - fear of violence towards healthcare professionals, and the impact of these factors on professional decisions, for example in child protection issues
- The conceptualisation of care within communities - how it is informed by cultural sensitivities and differing values which might include/exclude the family; policy and practice implications of Every Child Matters
- Approaches to interprofessional education
- Reflective practice and critical reflection in professional and inteprofessional education
- The nature of professional and interprofessional expertise
- The nature of professionalism and interprofessionalism in changing contexts.
IPI will undertake research that advances knowledge of interprofessional work and collaborative practice using a variety of conceptual, empirical and methodological approaches. There is particular interest in innovative methodologies for resourcing professional and interprofessional practice.
IPI's Research Portfolio
IPI is heavily involved in research through four key means:
1) The Clearing House for Research on Interprofessionalism
2) Small Grant Projects
A list of topics and grant holders for both 2008 and 2009 is available here.
3) Research Groupings
IPI facilitates research by supporting groups of researchers across the three HEIs in the following areas:
- Equality & Diversity (shared with the Institute for Management & Health). Please contact: Christina Butler, Eleni Hatzidimitriadou or Ravinder Barn
- Interprofessional education. Please contact Lynda D'Avray
- Reflective Practice & Critical Reflection (Jan Fook)
- Professionalism & Moral Climate. Please contact Paul Wainwright.
4) PhD Studentships
A list of students and awards for 2009 is available here.
