Ann Hewison
Research Fellow
Profile
Biography
Ann qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1994 and worked in the NHS for fourteen years in hospital and community settings in London; becoming a District Nurse in 1999. From 2008 she worked as a Disability Assessor for four years, then moved to the University of York in 2012 where she completed an MSc (Health Services Research) and part-time PhD, a qualitative study entitled: ‘Managing treatment and living with chronic myeloid leukaemia’. Ann previously worked as study nurse and research fellow with the Epidemiology and Cancer Statistics Group and is now a qualitative researcher in the York Trials Unit.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- Specialist Practitioner, District Nursing
- BNurs (Hons), University of Birmingham
- PGDip in Community Health Studies (Community Nursing), South Bank University
- MSc in Health Services Research, University of York
- PhD Health Sciences, University of York
Research
Overview
Ann's interests are:
- Qualitative research methods
- Qualitative research in randomised controlled trials
- Patient experiences
- Health care professionals’ experiences of managing treatment and care
Projects
- FLARE - A multi-centre, two-arm, non-inferiority, parallel group, randomised controlled trial with an internal pilot, economic evaluation and nested qualitative study, to assess whether the repair of the Flexor Digitorum Profundus (FDP) alone results in a as good as quality of life compared to repairing FDP and the Flexor Digitorum Superficialis (FDS).
- OPAL2 - A multi-centre RCT comparing the OPAL occupational support programme with usual care on the time to return-to-work in patients undergoing elective hip or knee replacement surgery.
- SCOOTT
Research group(s)
Supervision
Ann has is available to supervise Health Sciences Masters dissertation projects, particularly those using qualitative methods.
Contact details
External activities
Memberships
- Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Member of the Royal College of Nursing