Dr Kim SEIN

I am an experienced mixed-methods analyst with a PhD in Medical Science and a specialism in evaluation and qualitative healthcare research. I have a track record of delivering complex research, analysis, and evaluation across academia, healthcare, industry, and government.

I am particularly interested in how individual experience can be used to inform and improve systemic issues, using ethnographic techniques to evaluate policy decisions.

• Transitioning from PD to HD: patient and carer experiences, UKKW 2019, 06/03/19, Brighton, [Invited speaker]
• Managing distress in people with ESRD: people’s ability to cope with ESRD is impaired by a combination of smaller problems and larger worries, UKKW 2018, 06/19/18, Harrogate, [Presentation]
• People’s experience of apathy in Huntington’s disease: an interpretative phenomenological analysis, HYMS conference, 06/08/17, Hull, [Presentation]
• What is apathy in Huntington’s disease? A systematic review, HYMS conference, 06/10/16, York, [Poster]
• Living and coping with Parkinson's disease, European Health Psychology Society Conference, 09/21/11, Crete, Greece, [Poster]
• You have to get resigned.” Phenomenological psychology and the question of complexity; BPS Symposium, British Psychology Society Conference, 05/06/11, Glasgow, [Presentation]

• The challenge of managing mild-to-moderate distress in patients with end stage renal disease: results from a multi-centre, mixed methods research study and the implications for renal service organisation, Damery S, Sein K, Nicholas J, Baharani J, Combes G., BMC Health Services Research, 2019, 19, 989
• The prevalence of mild-to-moderate distress in patients with end-stage renal disease: Results from a patient survey using emotion thermometers in four hospital Trusts in the West Midlands, Damery S., Brown, C, Sein, K, Nicholas, J., Baharani, J, & Combes, G., BMJ Open, 2019, 9, e027982
• How does pre-dialysis education need to change? Findings from a qualitative study with staff and patients, Combes, G., Sein, K., and Allen, K., BMC Nephrology, 2017, 18, 334
• Attitudes of newly qualified doctors towards a career in general practice: a qualitative focus group study, Merrett, A., Jones, D., Sein, K., Green, T., and Macleod, U., British Journal of General Practice, 2017, 67, 657, e253-e259
• A qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives on compassion in healthcare and the development of a framework for compassionate interpersonal relations, Kneafsey, R., Brown, S., Sein, K., Chamley, C., and Parsons, J., Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2016, 25, 1-2, 1-2
• Taking hospital treatments home: a mixed methods case study looking at the barriers and success factors for home dialysis treatment and the influence of a target on uptake rates, Combes, G., Allen, K., Sein, K., Girling, A., and Lilford, R., Implementation Science, 2015, 10, 148