A chocolate Santa: Imaging the liminal moment with reverie in research
McVey, L. (2020) Extending Horizons in Helping and Caring Therapies: Beyond the Liminal in the Healing Encounter. Routledge. 130-141.
Dr. Lynn Mcvey
Biography
I've worked for over 10 years in research, starting with the Born in Bradford research project at the Bradford Institute for Health Research, before undertaking my PhD in psychotherapy and counselling at the University of Leeds. My doctoral research explored how therapists use their implicit inner experiencing, including mental imagery, fleeting memories and daydreams (also known as reverie) to connect and empathise with clients.
After completing my PhD, I worked on a realist study at the University of Leeds to develop and evaluate a web-based, interactive quality dashboard for national clinical audit data, and I'm now working at the University of Bradford on a further realist project. This research aims to determine how and in what contexts
multifactorial falls risk assessment and tailored falls prevention
interventions are used as intended on a routine basis in acute hospitals in the
NHS in England.
Research
With a background in psychotherapy & counselling, my research interests focus on investigating people's cognitive and emotional responses to healthcare interventions, whether these derive from human intersubjective interactions (as in counselling) or are digitally-based. I'm also fascinated by the use of empathy & imagination in qualitative research, related to the psychotherapeutic notion of 'reverie'.
Publications
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Variation in national clinical audit data capture: Is using routine data the answer?
Dowding D.W.;Alvarado N.;McVey L.;Mamas M.;Randell R. (2019) Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 264, 1658-1659.
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Requirements for a quality dashboard: Lessons from National Clinical Audits
Randell R, Alvarado N, McVey L, Ruddle RA, Doherty P, Gale C, Mamas M, Dowding D (2019) AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. /
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From taxonomy to requirements: A task space partitioning approach
Elshehaly M.;Alvarado N.;McVey L.;Randell R.;Mamas M.;Ruddle R.A. (2019) Proceedings - 7th Biennial Workshop Evaluation and Beyond: Methodological Approaches for Visualization, BELIV 2018., 19-27.
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Sharing a living room: Empathy, reverie and connection
McVey, L. (2018) Self and Society. 46, 51-57.
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Working together: reflections on how to make public involvement in research work.
McVey L;Frost T;Issa B;Davison E;Abdulkader J;Randell R;Alvarado N;Zaman H;Hardiker N;Cheong VL;Woodcock D; (2023) Research Involvement And Engagement. 9
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Analysis of a Web-Based Dashboard to Support the Use of National Audit Data in Quality Improvement: Realist Evaluation
Alvarado, N., McVey, L., Elshehaly, M., Greenhalgh, J., Dowding, D., Ruddle, R., Gale, C.P., Mamas, M., Doherty, P., West, R. and Feltbower, R. (2021) Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23
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QualDash: Adaptable Generation of Visualisation Dashboards for Healthcare Quality Improvement
Mai Elshehaly, Rebecca Randell, Matthew Brehmer, Lynn McVey, Natasha Alvarado, Chris P. Gale, Roy A. Ruddle (2021) IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHIC. TBD
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Institutional use of National Clinical Audits by healthcare providers
McVey, L., Alvarado, N., Keen, J., Greenhalgh, J., Mamas, M., Gale, C., Doherty, P., Feltbower, R., Elshehaly, M., Dowding, D. and Randell, R. (2021) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 27
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What supports and constrains the implementation of multifactorial falls risk assessment and tailored multifactorial falls prevention interventions in acute hospitals? Protocol for a realist review.
Randell R;Wright JM;Alvarado N;Healey F;Dowding D;Smith H;Hardiker N;Gardner P;Ward S;Todd C;Zaman H;McVey L;Davey CJ;Woodcock D; (2021) BMJ Open. 11
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Hidden labour: The skilful work of clinical audit data collection and its implications for secondary use of data via integrated health IT
McVey, L., Alvarado, N., Greenhalgh, J., Elshehaly, M., Gale, C.P., Lake, J., Ruddle, R.A., Dowding, D., Mamas, M., Feltbower, R., Randell, R. (2021) BMC Health Services Research. 702
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Exploring variation in the use of feedback from national clinical audits: a realist investigation
Alvarado, N; McVey, L; Greenhalgh, J; Dowding, D; Mamas, M; Gale, C; Doherty, P; Randell, R (2020) BMC Health Services Research. Not known
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How, in what contexts, and why do quality dashboards lead to improvements in care quality in acute hospitals? Protocol for a realist feasibility evaluation.
Randell R;Alvarado N;McVey L;Greenhalgh J;West RM;Farrin A;Gale C;Parslow R;Keen J;Elshehaly M;Ruddle RA;Lake J;Mamas M;Feltbower R;Dowding D; (2020) BMJ Open. 10
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The predictive moment: reverie, connection and predictive processing
McVey L.;Nolan G.;Lees J. (2020) British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 48, 511-523.
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Institutional use of National Clinical Audits by healthcare providers
McVey L.;Alvarado N.;Keen J.;Greenhalgh J.;Mamas M.;Gale C.;Doherty P.;Feltbower R.;Elshehaly M.;Dowding D.;Randell R. (2020) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
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Reflective-verbal language and reverie in a qualitative interview
McVey, L., Lees, J., Nolan, G. (2016) Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 16, 132-140.
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Reflective‐verbal language and reverie in a qualitative interview
McVey, L.; Lees, J.; Nolan. G. (2016) Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 16
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Practitioner-based research and qualitative interviewing: Using therapeutic skills to enrich research in counselling and psychotherapy
McVey L.;Lees J.;Nolan G. (2015) Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 15, 147-154.