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Transdisciplinary Research as a Means of Protecting Human Health, Ecosystems and Climate by Engaging People to Act on Air Pollution (2024)
Journal Article
Büker, P., West, S. E., Bowyer, C. J., Apondo, W., Cinderby, S., Gray, C. M., …Price, H. D. (2024). Transdisciplinary Research as a Means of Protecting Human Health, Ecosystems and Climate by Engaging People to Act on Air Pollution. One Health Cases, https://doi.org/10.1079/onehealthcases.2024.0002

Air pollution harms the health of humans, nature and wildlife, agricultural crops and livestock and climate. As a result, it hinders the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), 11 (S... Read More about Transdisciplinary Research as a Means of Protecting Human Health, Ecosystems and Climate by Engaging People to Act on Air Pollution.

The use of GRADE-CERQual in qualitative evidence synthesis: an evaluation of fidelity and reporting (2023)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Zahroh, R. I., Tunçalp, Ö., Booth, A., Bohren, M. A., Noyes, J., …Lewin, S. (2023). The use of GRADE-CERQual in qualitative evidence synthesis: an evaluation of fidelity and reporting. Health Research Policy and Systems, 21(1), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-00999-3

Background GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative Research) is a methodological approach to systematically and transparently assess how much confidence decision makers can place in individual review findings from quali... Read More about The use of GRADE-CERQual in qualitative evidence synthesis: an evaluation of fidelity and reporting.

From reflection diaries to practical guidance for transdisciplinary research: learnings from a Kenyan air pollution project (2023)
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Price, H. D., Bowyer, C. J., Büker, P., Gray, C. M., Hahn, M., Lambe, F., …West, S. E. (2023). From reflection diaries to practical guidance for transdisciplinary research: learnings from a Kenyan air pollution project. Sustainability Science, 18(3), 1429-1444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01317-0

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) approaches have been cited as essential for overcoming the intractable sustainability challenges that the world is currently facing, including air pollution, water management and climate change. However, such approach... Read More about From reflection diaries to practical guidance for transdisciplinary research: learnings from a Kenyan air pollution project.

The impacts of implementing recovery innovations: a conceptual framework grounded in qualitative research (2022)
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Piat, M., Wainwright, M., Rivest, M., Sofouli, E., von Kirchenheim, T., Albert, H., …LeBlanc, S. (2022). The impacts of implementing recovery innovations: a conceptual framework grounded in qualitative research. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-022-00559-2

Background Implementing mental health recovery into services is a policy priority in Canada and globally. To that end, a 5 year study was undertaken with seven organisations providing mental health and housing services to people living with a mental... Read More about The impacts of implementing recovery innovations: a conceptual framework grounded in qualitative research.

Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements (2021)
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West, S. E., Bowyer, C. J., Apondo, W., Büker, P., Cinderby, S., Gray, C. M., …Price, H. D. (2021). Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00969-6

We present novel co-created transdisciplinary research that uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) in Nairobi, Kenya. Air pollution is a well-documented major human health issue, but despite many... Read More about Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements.

Identifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services (2021)
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Piat, M., Wainwright, M., Cherkas, D., Leblanc, S., Sofouli, E., Rivest, M., …Labonté, L. (2021). Identifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services. Implementation Science Communications, 2(1), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-021-00206-w

Background Seven housing and health services organizations were guided through a process of translating Chapter Six of the Canadian Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Practice into a recovery-oriented innovation and plan for its implementation. At the... Read More about Identifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services.

Factors influencing the implementation of mental health recovery into services: a systematic mixed studies review (2021)
Journal Article
Piat, M., Wainwright, M., Sofouli, E., Vachon, B., Deslauriers, T., Préfontaine, C., & Frati, F. (2021). Factors influencing the implementation of mental health recovery into services: a systematic mixed studies review. Systematic Reviews, 10(1), Article 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01646-0

Background Countries around the world have committed in policy to transforming their mental health services towards a recovery orientation. How has mental health recovery been implemented into services for adults, and what factors influence the imple... Read More about Factors influencing the implementation of mental health recovery into services: a systematic mixed studies review.

The CFIR Card Game: a new approach for working with implementation teams to identify challenges and strategies (2021)
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Piat, M., Wainwright, M., Sofouli, E., Albert, H., Casey, R., Rivest, M., …O’Rourke, J. J. (2021). The CFIR Card Game: a new approach for working with implementation teams to identify challenges and strategies. Implementation Science Communications, 2, https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-020-00099-1

Background The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and the ERIC compilation of implementation strategies are key resources for identifying implementation barriers and strategies. However, their respective density and complexity... Read More about The CFIR Card Game: a new approach for working with implementation teams to identify challenges and strategies.

Exploring community residents’ motivations for interacting with American field school students in South Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Sicwebu, N., Colvin, C., Gong, E., Henderson, R., & Swartz, A. (2019). Exploring community residents’ motivations for interacting with American field school students in South Africa. Journal of Experiential Education, 42(2), 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825918821140

Background: Learning by experience in field schools (FSs) depends implicitly on the willingness of local residents to engage with students. Although critical perspectives have highlighted the potential harms of study abroad on local people, their vie... Read More about Exploring community residents’ motivations for interacting with American field school students in South Africa.

Reflections on a field across time and space: the emergent medical and health humanities in South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Hume, V., & Wainwright, M. (2018). Reflections on a field across time and space: the emergent medical and health humanities in South Africa. Medical Humanities, 44(4), 263-269. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011475

In this paper, we draw on our own cross-cultural experience of engaging with different incarnations of the medical and health humanities (MHH) in the UK and South Africa to reflect on what is distinct and the same about MHH in these locations. MHH sp... Read More about Reflections on a field across time and space: the emergent medical and health humanities in South Africa.

Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Pentecost, M., Gerber, B., Wainwright, M., & Cousins, T. (2018). Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa. Medical Humanities, 44(4), 221-229. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011472

In this article, the authors make a case for the ’humanisation' and ’decolonisation' of health sciences curricula in South Africa, using integration as a guiding framework. Integration refers to an education that is built on a consolidated conceptual... Read More about Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa.

Exploring ambivalent oxygen machine–people–world relations through the lens of postphenomenology (2018)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M. (2018). Exploring ambivalent oxygen machine–people–world relations through the lens of postphenomenology. Journal of Material Culture, 23(4), 426-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518799521

Technologies for medicinal oxygen delivery at home are increasingly part of the global health technology landscape in the face of rising rates of chronic lung and heart diseases. From the mere notion of harvesting and privatizing oxygen from the atmo... Read More about Exploring ambivalent oxygen machine–people–world relations through the lens of postphenomenology.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 5: how to assess adequacy of data (2018)
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Glenton, C., Carlsen, B., Lewin, S., Munthe-Kaas, H., Colvin, C. J., Tunçalp, Ö., …Wainwright, M. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 5: how to assess adequacy of data. Implementation Science, 13(S1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0692-7

Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) working group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 5: how to assess adequacy of data.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series (2018)
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Lewin, S., Booth, A., Glenton, C., Munthe-Kaas, H., Rashidian, A., Wainwright, M., …Noyes, J. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series. Implementation Science, 13(S1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0688-3

The GRADE-CERQual (‘Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research’) approach provides guidance for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from systematic reviews of qualitative research (or qualitative evidence syntheses... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings–paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data (2018)
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Noyes, J., Booth, A., Lewin, S., Carlsen, B., Glenton, C., Colvin, C. J., …Munthe-Kaas, H. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings–paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data. Implementation Science, 13(S1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0693-6

Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings–paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table (2018)
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Lewin, S., Bohren, M., Rashidian, A., Munthe-Kaas, H., Glenton, C., Colvin, C. J., …Carlsen, B. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table. Implementation Science, 13(S1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0689-2

Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations (2018)
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Munthe-Kaas, H., Bohren, M. A., Glenton, C., Lewin, S., Noyes, J., Tunçalp, Ö., …Carlsen, B. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations. Implementation Science, 13(S1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0690-9

Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group. The approach has been developed to... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations.

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 4: how to assess coherence (2018)
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Colvin, C. J., Garside, R., Wainwright, M., Munthe-Kaas, H., Glenton, C., Bohren, M. A., …Lewin, S. (2018). Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 4: how to assess coherence. Implementation Science, 13(S1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0691-8

Background: The GRADE-CERQual (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation-Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE working group. The approach has been developed to s... Read More about Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings—paper 4: how to assess coherence.

Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town (2017)
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Wainwright, M., Bingham, S., & Sicwebu, N. (2017). Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town. Journal of Experiential Education, 40(4), 409-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825917731868

Background: Field school research, which begins by considering community partners as pedagogues and thus exploring their perspectives on student learning, is uncommon. Photovoice is a method for self-expression of such marginalized voices. Purpose: D... Read More about Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town.

Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs (2017)
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Wainwright, M. (2018). Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(26), 3094-3103. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1376357

Purpose: This anthropological study investigated what people imagined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to look like in their lungs, what may be influencing these images and how this imagery shapes embodiment. Method: Employing graphic elicitatio... Read More about Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs.

Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay (2017)
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Wainwright, M. (2017). Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay. Medical Anthropology, 36(4), 332-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1287180

The sensory experience of breathing, particularly the sensation of breathlessness in the case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is a rich though understudied topic in medical anthropology. Fieldwork in Uruguay made it clear to me that... Read More about Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay.

Rebellion and Co-Morbidity (2016)
Book Chapter
Wainwright, M. (2016). Rebellion and Co-Morbidity. In L. Manderson, A. Hardon, & E. Cartwright (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. Routledge

What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms (2016)
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Maatz, A., Wainwright, M., Russell, A., Macnaughton, J., & Yiannakou, Y. (2016). What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 90, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.09.005

Background The term ‘difficult’ is pervasively used in relation to medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and patients with MUS. This article scrutinises the use of the term by analysing interview data from a study of secondary care specialists' experi... Read More about What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms.

Self-management of medical abortion: A qualitative evidence synthesis (2016)
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Wainwright, M., Colvin, C., Swartz, A., & Leon, N. (2016). Self-management of medical abortion: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Reproductive health matters, 24(47), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhm.2016.06.008

Medical abortion is a method of pregnancy termination that by its nature enables more active involvement of women in the process of managing, and sometimes even administering the medications for, their abortions. This qualitative evidence synthesis r... Read More about Self-management of medical abortion: A qualitative evidence synthesis.

Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action (2016)
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Russell, A., Wainwright, M., & Tilson, M. (2018). Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action. Global Public Health, 13(1), 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1152284

E-cigarettes are a new and disruptive element in global health diplomacy (GHD) and policy-making. This is an ethnographic account of how e-cigarettes and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) were tackled at the 6th Conference of the Part... Read More about Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action.

A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2014)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Wainwright, M., & Mamudu, H. (2015). A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 29(2), 256-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12141

The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the first international public health treaty to address the global spread of tobacco products. Ethnographic research at the fourth meeting of the FCTC's Conference of t... Read More about A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic (2011)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Russell, A., & Yiannakou, Y. (2011). Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic. Qualitative Health Research, 21(12), 1643-1657. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732311416824

In this article we discuss the results of an ethnographic study of professionals’ and patients’ experiences within a specialist constipation clinic in England. Chronic constipation tends to be poorly understood and inadequately treated. Eleven patien... Read More about Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic.