Enabling academic and career progression in healthcare as an applied social scientist through publishing, networking and enhancing professional skills

简介：我正在积极地追求作为一名应用社会科学家的职业生涯，并坚信这个ESRC博士后奖学金将非常适合支持我未来3-5年的职业发展轨迹。在我目前担任助产士顾问的角色中，我在英国最大的NHS信托机构之一领导转型和助产服务。我为提供安全、高质量的护理提供专业的领导支持和建议。但是，在研究方面，我的资历还比较浅，目前的职位并没有明确的研究职责。我相信，在高质量的研究和培训环境中，这将使我能够在医疗保健的公共领域发展我的研究贡献。本奖学金申请的主要目标如下。目标1：完成并提交以下三篇论文，用于发表博士论文：a)目标期刊：组织研究工作标题：投降，妥协和对抗：英国国民健康保险制度中家庭分娩的非制度化。b)目标期刊：卫生服务研究工作标题：产妇政策执行的失败：对英国国民保健制度产妇改革方案的多流分析。c)目标期刊：健康与疾病社会学工作标题：道德恐慌与母性：任何合格的提供者都是NHS的现代“民间恶魔”。目标2：根据我在2016年4月至5月对新西兰的ESRC海外机构访问，开发并提交第四篇论文发表：a)目标期刊：《助产学》或《高级护理杂志》工作标题出版物4：新西兰的产科服务对英国的产科转型计划有什么借鉴意义？目标3：向国内和国际学术和专业会议提交进一步的摘要，例如，2021年7月在阿姆斯特丹举行的第37届EGOS学术讨论会；AoM第81次会议，2021年8月，费城。目标4：通过导师和经纪人安排/访问与预期项目相关的示范团体（例如诺丁汉大学权利实验室：https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/index.aspx），制定一个程序性研究计划。这可能会集中在健康不平等、人权和产妇供应之间的交集上。目标5：与导师和领先的学者合作，确定潜在的入门级机会，研究资助和奖学金，与我的项目研究计划相一致。目标6：接受额外的实践培训，这将加强我的学术信誉，使我能够作为一名应用社会科学家与我的学术同行一起为研究做出贡献并领导研究。

Introduction: I am actively striving to pursue a career as an applied social scientist and strongly believe this ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship will be an excellent fit for supporting my career trajectory into the next 3-5 years. In my current role as a Consultant Midwife, I lead on transformation and midwifery excellence at one of the largest NHS trusts in England. I provide expert professional leadership support and advice for the delivery of safe, high quality care. However, in research terms, I am still relatively junior and I have no clear research remit in my current role. I am confident that being embedded in a high-quality research and training environment during this Fellowship will enable me to develop my research contribution within the public sphere of healthcare. The key objectives of this Fellowship application are as follows.Objective 1: To finalise and submit the following three papers for publication from the doctoral thesis: a) Target journal: Organization Studies Working title: Capitulation, compromise and counteraction: The deinstitutionalisation of home birth in the English NHS. b) Target journal: Health Services Research Working title: A failure of maternity policy implementation: A multiple streams analysis of the maternity transformation programme in the English NHS. c)Target journal: Sociology of Health and Illness Working title: Moral Panic and Maternity: Any qualified providers as modern 'folk devils' in the NHS.Objective 2: To develop and submit a fourth paper for publication based on my ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit to New Zealand in April-May 2016:a) Target journal: Midwifery or Journal of Advanced NursingWorking title publication 4: What lessons do the maternity services in New Zealand have for the Maternity Transformation Programme in England?Objective 3: Submit further abstracts to academic and professional conferences nationally and internationally e.g. 37th EGOS Colloquium in Amsterdam, July 2021; 81st AoM meeting in Philadelphia, August 2021.Objective 4: To develop a programmatic research plan with mentors and broker placements/visits to exemplar groups linked to the intended programme e.g. the University of Nottingham Rights Lab: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/index.aspx. This is likely to focus on an intersection between health inequalities, human-rights and maternity provision.Objective 5: To collaborate with mentors and leading academics to identify potential entry-level opportunities, research grants and fellowships that align with my programmatic research plan. Objective 6: Undertake additional practical training that will strengthen my academic credibility so that I can contribute to, and lead research as an applied social scientist alongside my academic peers.