Rosaleen O’Brien
@drrosaleenobrien.bsky.social
Freelance Qualitative & Health Services Research Consultant based in Scotland (former academic Medical Sociologist). Health experiences and evaluating health/ social care interventions & services| Website: https://rosaleenobrienresearch.com
Do you, your team/ organisation need the flexibility of a #qualitativeresearch and #evaluation consultant? I work with academic teams, What Works Centres, non-profit organisations and charities, to support them with high quality data generation, coding, analysis & writing. Please share 🙏
Do you, your team/ organisation need the flexibility of a #qualitativeresearch and #evaluation consultant? I work with academic teams, What Works Centres, non-profit organisations and charities, to support them with high quality data generation, coding, analysis & writing. Please share 🙏
When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
19thnews@19thnews.org · 6mo agoThe trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
The press has reported on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision as if it were only about tariffs. Wrong. It’s far bigger and even more important. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tariff-decision
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval
A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.
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Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis
Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis
In a university ecosystem that breeds hunger for status, Epstein made scholars feel like celebrities
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Squealed with excitement when I saw that my yellow crocuses have begun to crocus. The purple and lilac ones have yet to flower. Archie the cat was determined to be in the photo. #Crocuses #Gardening #Spring
“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.
"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013. + Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951 + Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM
SPCR Masterclass: Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in research 🗓️ Thursday, 19 March 2026 🕚 12noon to 1pm 💡 Drawing on real examples from NIHR‑funded work and co‑designed studies. 🔗 bit.ly/4rELXjJ @nihrsphr.bsky.social @nihrsscr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk
Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good
A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...
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Police organise the biggest birthday surprise Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has ever had.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo agoAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested at Sandringham home
Working my way through BBC’s #Detectorists again, after finishing #SmallProphets. I love the way Mackenzie Crook writes about friendships and his valuing of people who might be dismissed as odd. He also has a knack of making the ordinary quite magical. So brilliant.
We have the vaccine, we have the means to distribute it. We need to redouble efforts to tackle the slow loss of confidence in vaccines. No quick way to do this but we have the tools – it needs effort, outreach, listening to people’s concerns, answering questions, & working within communities. 8/8
📣CFP: "Relationships and Mental Health", Birmingham, May 12th 2026 We are excited to announce a collaboration with our lovely colleagues in the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University on a one-day conference along the theme: Relationships and Mental Health 🧵1/4
<once again holding up a tiny sign that says we actually have good evidence about the complex reasons people don't vaccinate, and how to talk to them about it, and, believe it or not, yelling about how stupid/irresponsible they are, while possibly cathartic, has the opposite of the desired effect>
I found this interview really moving. For me, if really highlighted the emotional work of being a working-class woman trying to fit into a club not made for her (ahem - me & academia) and having lived experience, being an advocate for others and change. Exhausting. Worth it though 👊
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 6mo agoLATEST News Agents: there are plenty of MPs who talk about the horrors of sexual abuse and grooming. Natalie Fleet has lived it. This ep is a transifxing conversation about her experience and where Starmer and the Mandelson story should go next. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Feeling ancient. Just had to google ‘Who is Bad Bunny?’ for a crash course, having never heard of an apparent mega star.
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics Good times.
Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for.
I'm excited to share a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology on New developments and good practice in reflexive thematic analysis co-edited by me, @ginnybraun.bsky.social @eileenjoy.bsky.social and Lisa Trainor. Please contact any of us if you have any questions.
Disproportionately happy to see the shoots of daffodils, tulips, crocuses and hyacinths pushing through. #gardening #wintergarden
