Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith's Outputs (4)

Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care (2024)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Dragas, T., Mazzoli Smith, L., Ross, K., & Miao, Z. (online). Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2394600

In this paper we identify the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a mode of pedagogy aligned with an ethics of care. We consider how DS, as summative assessment, may foreground care ethics such as attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust. Our interes... Read More about Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care.

Transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling: a phenomenological lifeworlds study of Patient Voices participant experiences (2024)
Journal Article
Mazzoli Smith, L., Hardy, P., Thompson, K., & Lucinda, W. (online). Transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling: a phenomenological lifeworlds study of Patient Voices participant experiences. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2024.2368767

Background: References to transformative and therapeutic bene-fits of digital storytelling are often made, yet this remains an under-explored area, which we foreground in this study.

Methods: A phenomenological research design was adopted to expl... Read More about Transformative and therapeutic benefits of digital storytelling: a phenomenological lifeworlds study of Patient Voices participant experiences.

Poverty proofing healthcare: A qualitative study of barriers to accessing healthcare for low-income families with children in northern England (2024)
Journal Article
Bidmead, E., Hayes, L., Mazzoli-Smith, L., Wildman, J., Rankin, J., Leggott, E., …Bramhall, L. (2024). Poverty proofing healthcare: A qualitative study of barriers to accessing healthcare for low-income families with children in northern England. PLoS ONE, 19(4), Article e0292983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292983

Poverty impacts negatively on children’s health and future life chances. Access to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is based on clinical need rather than the ability to pay but horizontal inequities in access exist. Children North East, a chari... Read More about Poverty proofing healthcare: A qualitative study of barriers to accessing healthcare for low-income families with children in northern England.

An evidence-based plan for addressing poverty with and through education settings (2024)
Report
Balmer, S., Black, N. M., Brown, C., Cookson, R., Crossley, S., Eddy, L., …Taylor-Robinson, D. (2024). An evidence-based plan for addressing poverty with and through education settings. N8 Research Partnership