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Dr Benjamin Saunders

@saunders14.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Health Research at keele.ac.uk/medicine Interest in #LTCs #qualitativeresearch #stoma #IBD #MSK #mentalhealth Co-Editor of IJSRM Dad (to human and doggie); coffee-fueled, lifelong gooner; true crime obsessive

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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
🚨#PhD studentships🚨 We're advertising 4 fully-funded PhDs at @KeeleUniversity 1 focuses on helpseeking & care for comorbid #mentalhealth & #gastrointestinal conditions, among ppl from minority ethnic backgrounds #IBD #Research #GI #ECCO Re-post appreciated: keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad…
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🚨As part of our new @keeleuniversity.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social £11m Centre for Community & Primary Care Mental Health Research, we're advertising 4 fully funded PhD studentships 👇👇👇 keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad… keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad��� keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad… keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad…
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If interested check out my article in the latest issue of @colostomyuk.bsky.social 's Tidings magazine. I talk about research on the role of AI in #stoma care #ostomy #ibd 👇👇👇 online.fliphtml5.com/hilnq/fccr/#...
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Very excited to be leading the mental and physical health comorbidity programme as part of our new £11m @nihr Centre for Community and Primary Care Mental Health Research 👇👇 #mentalhealth www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
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Keele-led partnership to lead multi-million pound research initiative to transform mental health support
A research group led by Keele University has secured £11m National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding to establish a Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) to address the mental health...
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Very happy to share our update #Stoma Support Study 2 logo, with help from our fantastic #PPIE group 👇
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We had a great discussion about the impact of our qualitative research on #LongCovid at Keele and illustrator Tom Bailey captured discussions in these brilliant illustrations! Links to our papers, below: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... doi.org/10.1111/hex....
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨Great to see this published - led by Alice Faux Nightingale, our paper reporting a qualitative investigation of the significance of #diagnosis of #LongCovid in children & young ppl 👇👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Perceptions and Significance of Long Covid Diagnoses From the Perspectives of Children and Young People With Long Covid, Their Parents and Professionals
Introduction Long Covid, the patient-preferred term, describes symptoms persisting after an acute Covid-19 infection. Understanding the importance and meaning of a Long Covid diagnosis to children a...
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We're still looking for clinicians who manage MSK pain in children & young ppl to take part in our E-Delphi study to help us develop resources for young ppl with #MSK #pain. If you're able to complete our brief survey it would be greatly appreciated 👇👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
For anyone who's interested feel free to check out my column in @colostomyuk.bsky.social 's Tidings magazine summer edition, giving a round up of recent published research on #stoma #ostomy - www.colostomyuk.org/support/tidi...
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🐝Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford🌱Patient Advocate🩺 @sahara88uk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Stoma Support Study is looking to increase diversity! Your opinions will help create resources for young people with an #ostomy. If you're from the UK and have a #stoma due to #IBD, please reach out to Ben at b.saunders@keele.ac.uk 🙏 #Crohns #Colitis #IBDSuperHeroes
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We're looking for ppl with a #stoma due to #IBD, aged 16-35, from Black, Asian, African or Caribbean backgrounds to help with our @nihrspcr.bsky.social Stoma Support Study 2 Please get in touch if interested, or pass this on 👇👇👇 @colostomyuk.bsky.social @sahara88uk.bsky.social
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Charles Hay, PhD @thecharleshay.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Are you a UK clinician who manages children & young people with musculoskeletal pain? The CAM-Pain study @keeleuniversity.bsky.social would love you to take part in our E-Delphi study gathering views on developing resources for children & young people with MSK pain. Link: tinyurl.com/53b2a2jn
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Kate Dunn @katemdunn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are you a UK clinician who manages children & young people with musculoskeletal pain? Can you help by answering a few questions? We'd love you to take part in our E-Delphi study gathering views on developing resources for children & young people with MSK pain. #KeeleMSK forms.office.com/e/8pbRyyGbUr
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨🚨At the Int'l Journal of Social Research Methodology we've just launched our **Early Career Researcher Competition for Best Paper** with a £200 book voucher prize. See this link for further details 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/ijsrm-early-...
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International Journal of Social Research Methodology (IJSRM) Early Career Researcher Competition for Best Paper
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Interesting paper just published- evaluating representation of themes important to ppl with multiple long term conditions in electronic health record (EHR) data. Found that many patient-centred concepts are underrepresented in EHR👇👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Capturing the human impact of living with multiple long-term conditions in routine electronic health records – lost in translation? - Simon D. S. Fraser, Emilia Holland, Lynn Laidlaw, Nick A. Francis,...
Background Living with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) involves ‘work’. A recent qualitative synthesis identified eight patient-centred work themes: ‘lear...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
UK GP practices, who's interested in helping us pilot some training materials for improving patient safety in remote encounters (e.g. patients phoning in or sending e-requests and getting allocated to particular options such as GP callback, in-person appt etc)? Can offer free training to first five!
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you are a carer, parent, educator, clinician, peer worker who supports young people (14-25) with mental ill health and is based in Europe, please do consider joining our Mental Health Advisory Group for our YouthReach study. Please see details in flyer and can sign up via link or QR code
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨🚨Great to see this published, our paper exploring acceptability of implementing #MSK triage interface clinics in #primarycare in Ireland 👇👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Musculoskeletal triage physiotherapists’ perspectives on their role, the patient journey and implementation of interface triage clinics in primary care in Ireland
To explore musculoskeletal triage clinical specialist physiotherapists’ (CSPs) perspectives on the patient journey and their perspectives on the accep…
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Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our new qualitative researcher post is now hiring. I completely understand (& have been there) that Oxford might feel challenging to apply to. But if you think this job could be for you, please do apply. And if you want to talk do get in touch. We are kind, inclusive, supportive team & department.
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Lucy Bray @lucybray9.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited for the day ahead at the @seftoncouncil.bsky.social SEND youth conference reporting back on the @isupportrights.bsky.social resources the young people helped with last year and developing a symbol based audit tool this year 😊
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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Join us TOMORROW (12 Mar) for the final SPCR Bitesized Impact Showcase dedicated to Patient & Public Involvement & Engagement, 11:30am - 1pm: bit.ly/Register-SPCR-Bitesized-4 #PrimaryCareResearch #PPIE @sapc.ac.uk @nihr.bsky.social @halle-j.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow (12 Mar) for the final SPCR Bitesized Impact Showcase on Patient & Public Involvement & Engagement, 11:30am - 1pm: bit.ly/Register-SPCR-Bitesized-4
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Colostomy UK @colostomyuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Take part in Step Up for Stomas, Active April 💪💭   Keeping our minds active is just as important as our physical health when it comes to keeping a positive mindset, especially when we experience a huge life event such as stoma surgery. 💌   For more info: www.colostomyuk.org/get-involved...
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Kate Dunn @katemdunn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Are you a UK healthcare professional who works with children & young people? We have new resources to help young people with Aches & Pains and we would like your opinions. Sound interesting? Get in touch by emailing: health.iau@keele.ac.uk @campainstudy.bsky.social #KeeleMSK
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Kate Dunn @katemdunn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
New technique for analysing ordered patterns of healthcare events over time, such as consultations & prescriptions, applied to musculoskeletal health: Sequence analysis of EHR data #KeeleMSK acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Sequence Analysis to Phenotype Healthcare Patterns in Adults with Musculoskeletal Conditions Using Primary Care Electronic Health Records
Objective The aim of this study was to apply sequence analysis (SA) to phenotype healthcare patterns of adult patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions using primary care electronic health reco.....
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Very happy to get news that our #Stoma Support Study 2 has finally been successful in getting funded! 🎉🎉Building on previous @nihrspcr.bsky.social study, we'll be co-producing, user-testing & finalising a digital resource to support self-management of distress in young ppl with #IBD and a stoma😃
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Kate Dunn @katemdunn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We have an opportunity for a funded PhD studentship on 'Illness perceptions and outcomes in people living with gout'. See: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr... #KeeleMSK
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Pleasure to have been editor for this paper recently published in Internat. Journal of Social Research Methodology- an analysis of a participatory art project with refugee & local youths in Istanbul & Johannesburg - fascinating read, available OA here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research
This research engages in a methodological analysis of a participatory art project employing PhotoVoice with refugee and local community youths across two distinct sites: Istanbul and Johannesburg. ...
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J.B. Negrón @negronjb.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
Great one by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and @vicclarke.bsky.social #Qualitative #QualitativeResearch www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How do you solve a problem like COREQ? A critique of Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research
In this paper, we argue that COREQ – the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (Tong et al., 2007) – is a problem, and a problem in…
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
For anyone interested, my regular column is free to access in the winter edition of Colostomy UK's tidings magazine, reviewing recent published research on #stoma care & experience: t.co/CZkLdptItb
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just out really interesting paper on methodologically incongruent peer review feedback; I think a lot of #qualitative health researchers will relate! doi.org/10.1037/qup0...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
📣Pleasure to be editor for this debate in Internat J of Social Research Methodology between respected scholars Profs Martyn Hammersley & David Byrne re ‘critical’, ‘activist’, or ‘engaged’ forms of social research- a must read! doi.org/10.1080/1364... doi.org/10.1080/1364... doi.org/10.1080/1364...
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Dr Benjamin Saunders @saunders14.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
🚨Hot off the press🚨 We've just published this paper in the international journal of social research methodology - exploring the politics of #coproduction in a study with refugee and local community youths: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The politics of co-production and inclusive deliberation in participatory research
This research engages in a methodological analysis of a participatory art project employing PhotoVoice with refugee and local community youths across two distinct sites: Istanbul and Johannesburg. ...
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The CAM-Pain Study @campainstudy.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
We on the CAM-Pain study want to help children and young people with musculoskeletal pain. We're running interviews with children and young people (and their parents/guardians) and focus groups with primary care HCPs and AHPs and will next year be designing resources based on our results.
Back and neck pain are among the top 10 causes of disability among 10-14 year olds
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The CAM-Pain Study @campainstudy.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
44% of children and young people report chronic pain
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Charles Hay, PhD @thecharleshay.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
2nd First Name Paper came from my PhD: Diagnostic delay in axial spondyloarthritis: a systematic review (DOI doi.org/10.1007/s100...). Showed diagnostic delay in axSpA ranging globally from 2-8 years, unaffected overall by gender or family history (I do discuss this because I know it sounds odd).
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Diagnostic delay in axial spondyloarthritis: a systematic review - Clinical Rheumatology
Identification of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) remains challenging, frequently resulting in a diagnostic delay for patients. Current benchmarks of delay are usually reported as mean data, which are...
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