Amelia hasn’t even finished her undergraduate physiotherapy degree yet and she is already presenting her research! Inspired by a lecture from a clinical researcher Amelia took direct action and successfully landed a research internship with Dr James Gavin. Listen to find out how that experience led to her wanting to do more than embed research into her career, she aims to become a physio research leader!
Top 3 Takeaways
1) Enthusiasm and passion will take you far!
2) Inspiring clinicians to be researchers is about more than just putting it in education
3) Research is more detailed that you might think.
Bio: Amelia Sulch is an Undergraduate Physiotherapy Student in her final year at the University of Southampton. She has a long-standing interest in rehabilitation and particularly management of Long-Term Conditions (LTCs). I have developed a strong interest in research which was enhanced by a 10 week-internship (with a research study) exploring how community-based interventions can encourage people with LTCs to stay active long-term. This mixed methods research gave her experience in conducting a scoping review and she will be conducting the semi-structured interviews as my final year dissertation project.
She particularly valued the opportunity to attend showcases and conferences to learn about the research! She is currently interested in health inequities, healthcare interventions and service improvement, particularly in the community, and qualitative research as a vehicle to identify and address the diverse needs of marginalised populations within healthcare.
Her ambition is to study a master’s in public health and then complete a PhD with the aim of being a researcher and a lecturer in the future. I am looking for opportunities to get involved with research, collaborate with others. I also enjoy hearing hear about research work being conducted, please contact me if you have any opportunities available for early researcher involvement.
Find Amelia online:
www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-sulch-475480242
Amelia’s Research:
Coming soon…
See the LinkedIn post about her poster presentation: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amelia-sulch-475480242_this-summer-i-had-the-fantastic-opportunity-activity-7376939681588084736-236j?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABFA9IcBEyY2FSUNQHrFfA-w4L5YcSeb-24
Amelia is reading:
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Resources:
Dr James Gavin’s research https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xsmdg/doctor-james-gavin#research
The “MoTH” study (related to her project) https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/projects/research-project-maintenance-of-physical-activity-behaviour-moth-programme
Long Term Conditions Research Group
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/long-term-conditions
Creative methods book: Creative Research Methods by Helen Kara (@HelenKaraWriter on YouTube)
Find Dr Rosalynn Austin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin
Experience the adventures Dr Rosalynn Austin takes while travelling on @tea-riffictravels
The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Amelia Sulch) and not that of any of their affiliated institutions.
Chapters
00:00:00 Titles
00:00:10 Episode Introduction
00:01:02 Introducing Amelia Sulch
00:02:10 Researcher Revealed Rapid 11
00:11:11 What drew Amelia into research
00:21:07 Research internship project description
00:31:30 Balancing university work with internship work
00:40:15 Supportive research groups
00:45:09 Amelia’s future hopes and dreams
00:50:55 How Amelia thinks her research skills will impact on her future clinical career
01:08:54 Top 3 take aways
01:13:43 In video links
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