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Sara Morris supervises 3 postgraduate research students. Some of the students have produced research profiles, these are listed below:

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Dr Sara Morris

Senior Research Associate

Sara Morris

Furness Building

Lancaster University

Bailrigg

Lancaster LA1 4YG

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1524 592656

Location:

Affiliations: International Observatory on End of Life Care

PhD supervision

Topics: Public Involvement in health related research and delivery; Informal carers ; Social aspects of cancer; Service delivery. Methods: Qualitative interviews with individuals and groups; Survey design; Focus groups; Dialogic analysis

Profile

Selected publications

Reports

Attree P & Morris SM et al (2009) Exploring the impact of user involvement on health and social care services for cancer in the UK. Lancaster: Lancaster University

Thomas, C., Morris, S. and Gatrell, A. (2003) Place of Death in the Morecambe Bay Area: Patterns and preferences for place of final care and death among terminally ill cancer patients and their carers. Lancaster: Lancaster University (pp 281)

Thomas C, Morris SM, McIllmurray MB, Soothill K, Francis B, Harman J.C. (2001) The psychosocial needs of cancer patients and their main carers. Project Report. Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University

Selected Recent Publications

Morris SM & Thomas C (2007) Placing the dying body: emotional, situational and embodied factors in preferences for place of final care and death in cancer. pp 19-32 in: Davidson J, Bondi L & Smith M (eds.) Emotional Geographies. Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot. ISBN: 0 7546 4375 3

Morris SM, Hinder S, Britt D (2006) Sharing successes: an encouraging process. INVOLVE 5th National Conference, People in Research, Hertfordshire 7th September

Morris SM, Britt D & Bitcon E (2004) Creating a dialogue: helping researchers put user involvement into practice. INVOLVE 4th National Conference, People at the heart of research, Nottingham, 11 November

Morris SM & Twelvetree T (2003) 'Training for consumer participants in research', pp 10-12 in The Third Dimension, A report on the proceedings of a seminar. London, RCGP Research Group

Morris SM & Thomas C (2002) 'The need to know: informal carers and information', European Journal of Cancer Care, 11 (3), 183-187

Morris SM & Thomas C (2001) 'The carer's place in the cancer situation: where does the carer stand in the medical setting?', European Journal of Cancer Care, 10 (2), 87-95

Morris SM (2001) 'Joint and individual interviewing in the context of cancer', Qualitative Health Research, 11 (4), 553-567

Morris SM (1999) 'Lumps in the breast: negotiating risks after a cancer diagnosis', Health, Risk and Society, 1 (2): 179-194

Cotterell P & Morris S et al (2009) 'Making user involvement effective: lessons from cancer care' London: Macmillan Cancer Support

Thomas C, Morris SM (2004) 'Place of death: preferences among cancer patients and their carers', Social Science & Medicine, 58 (12), 2431-2444

Soothill K, Morris SM, Thomas C, Harman JC, Francis B, McIllmurray MB (2003) 'The universal, situational, and personal needs of cancer patients and their carers', European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 7 (1), 5-13

Soothill K, Morris SM, Harman JC, Thomas C, Francis B, McIllmurray MB (2002) 'Cancer and faith. Having faith - does it make a difference among patients and carers? ', Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 16 (3), 256-263

Thomas C & Morris SM (2002) 'Informal carers in cancer contexts', European Journal of Cancer Care, 11 (3), 178-182.

Thomas C, Morris SM, Harman JC (2002) 'Companions through cancer: the care given by informal carers in cancer contexts', Social Science and Medicine, 54 (4), 529-544

Soothill K, Morris SM, Harman J, Francis B, Thomas C, McIllmurray MB (2001) 'The significant unmet needs of cancer patients: probing psychosocial concerns', Supportive Care in Cancer 9 (8), 597-605.

Soothill K, Morris SM, Harman JC, Francis B, Thomas C, McIllmurray MB (2001) 'Informal carers of cancer patients: what are their unmet psychosocial needs?' Health and Social Care in the Community, 9 (6), 464-475.

Research Grants

Chief Investigator:

Morris SM et al (2008/9) Exploring the impact of user involvement on health and social care services for cancer in the UK. Funded by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Co-applicant:

Watkins C et al, including Morris SM (2007ongoing) Ensuring Immediate Access to Emergency Stroke Pathways. Funded by the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research

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