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Research

in the Centre for Interprofessional Practice

We explore and help identify what underpins effective interprofessional practice that enable professionals to offer the care people need and want and how best to prepare professional for this way of working.

Our team is currently exploring:

Evaluation study: a mixed-methods research study exploring the education and clinical context and method of the HCA experience now delivered to all MB BS Year 1 medical students (formerly on a voluntary basis).
Completion and submission of an academic article examining the longer-term impact of whether participation in the Healthcare Assistant Project (while Year 1 MB BS medical students at UEA), has continued to influence doctors’ values and practice relating to a) the delivery of person-centred care and interprofessional practice and b) doctors’ perception of HCAs.
Leadership, in the context of interprofessional education – a mixed methods study with colleagues in Norway that is culminating in the development of an empirical framework to support educators as they integrate IPE into curricula.

The CIPP Director Professor Susanne Lindqvist is a Fellow of the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) and together with other Fellows she is actively engaged in research around interprofessional leadership.

Publications

Anderson, E., Hean, S., Lindqvist, S. (2025). Faculty Development for Interprofessional Education and Practice. In: Steinert, Y. (eds) Faculty Development in the Health Professions. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 11. Springer, Singapore.
Davison E., Semlyen J., Lindqvist S. (2024). Mentoring medical students as a means to increase healthcare assistant status: A qualitative study Nursing Open
Frøydis, V., Ødegård, A., Iversen, H.P., Almås, S.H., Willumsen, E., Lindqvist, S. (2023). University Teachers’ experience of students interprofessional education: Qualitative contributions from teachers towards a framework. Social Sciences & Humanities Open.
Howard-Wilsher, S., Gibbs, A., Reed, J., Baker, R., Lindqvist, S., (2023). Patient care, integration and collaboration of physician associates in multiprofessional teams: A mixed methods study. Nursing Open.
Davison, E., Semlyen, J., & Lindqvist, S. (2021). "From doing to knowing": medical students' experiences of working as Healthcare Assistants. Journal of Interprofessional Care.
Davison, E., & Lindqvist, S. (2019). Medical students working as health care assistants: an evaluation. The clinical teacher.
Davison, E., Housden, S., & Lindqvist, S. (2019). Using Interprofessional dementia learning opportunities to prepare the future healthcare workforce: findings from a pilot study. Journal of Interprofessional Care.