Dr Natasha Doran

About me:

Natasha Doran is a social scientist (medical anthropologist and medical sociologist) with an expertise in qualitative research in health. She has collaborated on a range of research exploring doctors’ health, wellbeing in the workplace, medical education, professional development and practice, as well as patients’ experiences of chronic illness and pain. She has presented and published in the areas of medical education; trainee doctors’ stress and support mechanisms; junior doctors’ experiences of personal illness; UK GPs leaving practice early in their careers; junior doctors’ reasons for choosing general practice as a career; quality improvement in healthcare; NHS patient safety collaboratives; mindfulness-based pain management and social research methodology.

As senior research fellow, Natasha has collaborated on an evaluation of a QI programme for junior doctors across South-West England; led the qualitative branch of a mixed methods national study to evaluate Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) across NHS England; and has recently completed a study looking at F2 doctors' changing attitudes to a GP career.

As senior lecturer in postgraduate education, she is currently contributing across the MSc programmes in Clinical Education (CE); Extreme Medicine (EM); Healthcare Leadership and Management (HLM); and Clinical Pharmacy in the Medical school, University of Exeter, UK.

Natasha is also an accredited mindfulness-based teacher having completed 4 levels of teacher training with Breathworks (CIC), running courses for pain management, as well as stress in the workplace.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Natasha-Doran

Interests:

Natasha’s main research interests include doctors' health; well-being and compassion in the workplace; culture change in the NHS; mindfulness-based approaches to pain management; patient safety and quality of care; health-care staff retention and recruitment; social research methodology.

Natasha has trained in the theoretical and philosophical background to qualitative research and teaches a variety of methods including: Interviewing, biographical methods, participant observation, ethnography and the auto-ethnographic method and focus group discussions. She is experienced in using constructivist grounded theory (CGT), interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) thematic analysis (TA) and framework analysis.

Qualifications:

• PhD Medical Sociology & Medical Anthropology
• MA Medical Anthropology
• BA Combined hons (Social Studies/History)