Another first for Researcher Revealed, this week’s episode I host a Women’s Health Research Midwife! Susara Blunden tells a tale of two halves: from gorgeous handbags working in Hedge funds in London to wearing scrubs and working on developing her career as a researcher. Her passion is inspiring, and I was loved hearing thie similarities and differences there were between a midwife’s and nurse’s career pathway as a researcher.
Top 3 Takeaways
1) Pathways into a research career are diverse
2) More support is needed for those in research delivery to advance their research career aspirations
3) Is research embedded in your clinical practice?
Bio: Susara Blunden is a Women's Health Research Midwife in the NHS and a master’s in research student at Bournemouth University on the NIHR funded INSIGHT programme. She currently investigating the secondary care endometriosis diagnostic pathways in the NHS and other high-income countries. After graduating with a BSc in Midwifery from Bournemouth University in 2014, she worked clinically for a few years before moving into NHS research delivery. She has extensive experience in research, from setting up research in clinical environments, recruiting participants, to collecting data for a wide range of studies and trials. She was key in delivering projects which explored topics such as obstetric anaesthesia, hypertensive disorders; pregnancy and non-pregnancy related, smoking cessation, preterm birth prevention, stillbirth and miscarriage reduction. She was a Principal Investigator on several of these projects. She is a member of the NIHR Reproductive Health and Childbirth National Research Champions Group helping to maintain and build research capacity regionally and nationally.
Find Susara online:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susara-blunden-6a0a74138/
Susara’s Research:
Coming soon!
Susara is reading:
Whale Bone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Resources:
1) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2) Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science by Georgina Ferry
3) NIHR Principal Investigator training programs:
- Associate PI Scheme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at5PM61X0Yw
- PIPP: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/career-development/clinical-research-courses-and-support/principal-investigator-pipeline-programme
4) Being a PI as a nurse on medication trials (CTIMPS) https://youtu.be/JRZT_p3fHfk
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin
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The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Susara Blunden) and not that of any of their affiliated institutions.
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