New NHS Research Grant
As part of the METIS Collaboration, CSWL will be working on a new NHS research grant understanding the hard choices made by working women with breast cancer between treatment compliance and working on clinical versus economic survival.
As part of the METIS Collaboration, CSWL will be working on a new NHS research grant understanding the hard choices made by working women with breast cancer between treatment compliance and working on clinical versus economic survival.
The research proposal focuses on working women, particularly those at risk through social and economic status and type of work, and considers what might be done to improve their situations in the North East of Scotland. This study will understand the way in which working women with breast cancer make decisions about their treatment, care after treatment and work engagement through the lens of the narratives they use. This will enable those involved in the treatment and care after treatment of those with breast cancer to better tailor the information and support that is provided to facilitate more appropriate decision making in relation to their engagement with work. This is particularly important to women in employment that is already insecure. The study will start in October 2015.
The NHS research grant was awarded to Dr Sara MacLennan, an Honorary Research Fellow within the Centre for Sustainable Working Life. The research will be carried out through the Academic Urology Unit, University of Aberdeen.
Professor Tom Cox CBE and Dr Gianina-Ioana Postavaru from CSWL are also involved with the research project, along with partners in the METIS Collaboration, including Professor James NDow (Head of Academic Urology Unit) and Professor Steven Heys (Co-Director, Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen). Sarah Murdoch, who has extensive experience of working with this patient group and with the Advisory Group, is employed as research assistant within the project.