Current – Research Associate in Urgent Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of East Anglia

March 2010 – Sept 2010 Lead Investigator: Investigation of health care needs for migrant families with children in Thetford – UEA. Funded by NHS Norfolk.

Sept 2009 – March 2010: Research Associate - Health care needs assessment for children with complex needs living in Thetford - UEA. Commissioned by NHS Norfolk.

March 2007 – Research Associate: At-Risk Registers In Severe Asthma (ARRISA) study – UEA. Funded by Asthma UK.

April 2002 – Feb 2007: Research Associate – Suffolk & Norfolk Primary Care Research & Development Group, (S.A.N.D.). ELEVATE asthma study

Professional Qualifications

• 2010 PhD – UEA. Title: The discursive construction of prophylactic medicine-taking for people with asthma: Interactional issues and moral discourses
• 2008 Certificate in Ethnography, Language and Communication: Key Concepts and Methods; Researcher Development Initiative, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• 2004 Master’s Level credit course from MSc. in Health Sciences – ‘Further Qualitative Research Methods’, UEA 
• 2002 Master’s foundation course: ‘The Challenge of the Social Sciences’ – linked to MA/MSc. ‘Psychological Research Methods’, Open University
• 2001 B.A. (Hons) Psychology 1st Class, Open University 

• Organisation and implementation of urgent care health services
• Health communication in clinical settings
• Medicine-taking and illness management
• Discursive and ethnographic approaches to understanding language in health literature and talk in healthcare settings

Selected Publications
 

• Murdoch, J., Poland, F., & Salter, C. (2010). Interactional contexts in a data-sharing focus group. Qualitative Health Research, 20, 582-594.
• Wilson, E.C.F., Price, D., Musgrave, S.D., Sims, E.J. Shepstone, L., Murdoch, J. Mugford, H.M. Blyth, A. Juniper, E.F., Ayres, J.G., Wolfe, S., Freeman, D., Gilbert, R.F.T., Hillyer, E.V. & Harvey, I. (2010). Cost Effectiveness of Leukotriene Receptor Antagonists versus Long-Acting Beta-2 Agonists as Add-On Therapy to Inhaled Corticosteroids for Asthma: A Pragmatic Trial, Pharmacoeconomics, 28 (7): 597-608.
• Wilson, E.C.F., Sims, E.J., Musgrave, S.D., Shepstone, L., Blyth, A., Murdoch, J., Mugford, H.M., Juniper, E.F., Ayres, J.G., Wolfe, S., Freeman, D., Gilbert, R.F.T., Harvey, I. Hillyer, E.V., Price, D. (2010). Cost-effectiveness of leukotriene receptor antagonists versus inhaled corticosteroids for initial asthma controller therapy: a pragmatic trial, Pharmacoeconomics, 28 (7): 585-95.
• Price, D., Musgrave, S.D., Wilson, E.C.F., Sims, E.J., Shepstone, L., Blyth, A., Murdoch, J., Mugford, H.M., Juniper, E.F., Ayres, J.G., Wolfe, S., Freeman, D., Lipp, A., Gilbert, R.F.T., Harvey, I. (in press). A pragmatic single-blind RCT and economic evaluation of the use of leukotriene receptor antagonists in primary care at steps two and three of the national asthma guidelines. HTA monograph series.

• Lectures delivered: “Qualitative Research Methods: Interviews and Focus Group Discussions”, (April 2010, 2nd year Medical students); “Social Identities of Health and Illness”, (June 2008, 2009 and planned for June 2010, 2nd year Medical students) – UEA
• I have also assessed and supervised medical sociology projects for 2nd and 3rd year medical students at UEA.
• As a teacher of English as a foreign language I taught Portuguese and Thai students aged 4 to adults. During this period I prepared classes, planned timing of lessons, organised students in learning activities, set up a new school, interviewed & managed teachers and developed, collated and distributed teaching materials to teacher