Research Project on the Role and Contribution of Volunteers in Biomedical Research

Publications

This research has been the subject of several public presentations, and journal papers. To download abstracts, slides or full text articles of these (where availble), see links in the left hand menu.

References

Morris, N and Schneider, M (2010). Volunteer Research Subjects’ Experience of Participation in Research on a Novel Diagnostic Technology for Breast Cancer, Qualitative Health Research, 20 (1), 81-92

Armstrong, V., & Morris, N. (2010). Boundary setting in breast cancer research: a study of the experience of women volunteer research subjects. Sociology of Health and Illness, 32 (1), 74-88. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01182.x.

Morris, N., Armstrong, V., & Balmer, B. (2009). Constructing a safe research environment: technology talk between researchers and volunteer research subjects. Health, Risk and Society, 11 (2), 99-116.

Morris, N and Hebden, J C. (2008) Evolving Collaborations - a self-referential case-study of a social/natural sciences collaborative project, Science Studies, 2, 27-46.

N. Morris, J. Hebden, L. Enfield, A. Gibson, A. Sharma, and V. Armstrong, (2008). "How Feedback from Human Subjects Can Enhance Clinical Performance of Optical Mammography," in Biomedical Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2008), paper BSuE15.

Morris, N. and Balmer, B. (2006). Volunteer human subjects’ understandings of their participation in a biomedical research experiment. Social Science & Medicine, 62(4), 998-1008.

Norma Morris, Jeremy C. Hebden, Tara Bland, Brian Balmer. (2003) ‘Role of patient feedback in the design and implementation of clinical trials of optical tomography of the breast’: inDavid A. Boas (Ed.) Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5138: Photon Migration and Diffuse-Light Imaging, p.12-22, Oct 2003.

Morris, N. and Balmer, B. (2006). Are you sitting comfortably? Perspectives of the researchers and the researched on ‘being comfortable’ Accountability in Research, 13, 111-133.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Absorption images of a) right and b) left breast of patient with malignant lesion in right breast; image courtesy of Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, UCL.