Mr Mike O'Driscoll

Research Assistant - Nursing

Mike O'Driscoll
  • School Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education

  • Department Adult, Child & Midwifery

  • Location London

Research activities

Current projects include evaluation of simulation in nurse education, evaluation of a mobile health and wellbeing service for care workers and evaluation of a NHS leadership development programme. 

Research interests/experience 

Health inequalities

Programme evaluation 

Nurse and midwife education

Simulation in nurse education

Experiences of people living with chronic illnesses/conditions (PKU, haemophilia)

NHS history

NHS 'reform' and NHS policies

Attitudes to privatisation in the NHS

Media coverage of the NHS/privatisation in the NHS 

Diversity in the NHS, higher education and more generally

AI in social research 


Current Teaching

I teach on the work based learning 4760 module, covering quantitative and qualitative research methods, literature search and review.  I also provide ad hoc support to students at all levels with regard to research methods and data analysis in SPSS and NVIVO. 


Biography

I am a mixed methods researcher with over 25 years' experience in academia, national charities and local government. I am also a doctoral student at Middlesex, researching aspects of public and health professional attitudes to the NHS. 

 

External activities

  • Specialist Statistical Reviewer, Journal of Advanced Nursing,
  • Publications