Dr Michelle Winslow BA (Hons) PhD
Research Fellow
Academic Unit of Supportive Care
University of Sheffield
Sykes House, Little Common Lane
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
S11 9NE, UK
Tel:+44 (0)114 262 0174 ext 28
Fax: +44 (0)114 236 9632
Email: m.winslow@sheffield.ac.uk
Career History
Michelle joined the University of Sheffield in 1996 as a doctoral student within the Department of History, conducting oral history research with Polish émigrés who settled in Britain due to the Second World War. After completing her PhD in 2001, she joined the Academic Palliative Medicine Unit, now Academic Unit of Supportive Care, contributing to research projects relating to supportive care and end-of-life issues, and with responsibility for the Hospice History Project oral history collection.
Between April 2004 and October 2005, Michelle held the post of Honorary Lecturer at the University of Sheffield whilst leading a research project with the International Observatory of End of Life Care, Lancaster University. In January 2007, she established an oral history service for people receiving care in the Sheffield Macmillan Unit for Palliative Care, Northern General Hospital. The service and related research aims to promote acceptance of life history as part of the culture of palliative care. In May 2007, she joined a study as part of the Research for Patient Benefit Programme (Department of Health) exploring public and professional views of mammographic breast screening.
Research
Oral history as a research method and as a means to explore human relationships, personal experience, understandings, memory, identity, and the significance of the interview process.
- Oral history and narrative in health, specialising in end of life issues.
- Broader supportive and palliative care themes: historical, sociological, ethical and clinical perspectives.
- Investigation of views and perceptions of breast screening over age 70.
- Ethnic diversity, migrant experience, and associated health issues.
Current research
Life history as a service in palliative care
April 2007 – subject to annual review
This service is enabling people with life-threatening illness to produce life history recordings and enrich their experience of palliative care.
Extension of mammographic breast screening to the over 70s: Assessment of efficacy, practicality and patient preferences
April 2007- March 2010
This study will provide guidance for the NHS Breast Screening Programme and Department of Health regarding whether screening should be extended beyond
its current age range of 50-70, and if so, the most efficacious strategy for doing so. The research will provide in depth insight into the needs and wishes of this patient population and their health care professionals.
Completed Research
Life stories in supportive and palliative care: Establishing an oral history service for patients (2007)
This project enabled patients in palliative care to produce life history audio digital recordings and demonstrated the acceptability and value of an oral history service in palliative care. Supported by the League of Friends (Northern General hospital, Sheffield) the project encouraged a team of hospital volunteers to take part in the oral history process and respond to patients´ requests for life story recordings.
Consumer views on a new screening tool for supportive care needs: A survey of user groups (2006)
Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral for Care (SPARC) is a screening measure to facilitate the referral of patients with advanced illnesses, regardless of diagnosis to specialist palliative care in the UK. This study examined the views of consumers regarding SPARC as an assessment of need for supportive care. Findings imply that SPARC is acceptable and relevant for clinical assessment of supportive care needs, for patients with a wide variety of diseases.
St Joseph´s Hospice Centenary History (2005)
This study documented 100 years of St Joseph´s Hospice using oral history and archival evidence. An exhibition and book were produced in time for a series of centenary celebrations.
Innovations in cancer pain relief: technologies, ethics and practices (2004)
As part of the ESRC Innovative Health Technologies programme, this research explored how changing approaches to cancer pain relief are tied up with shifting understandings of patients, the problems they encounter with their disease, and how these are expressed in narratives of pain.
Hospice Narrative Study (2003)
This pilot study conducted with people with experience of life-limiting disease shed light on perspectives of care and illness and how they are understood in the context of broader life experience. Supported by the Academic Palliative Medicine Unit.
Hospice History Project (2002)
Funded by Wellcome, this project carried out historical work in hospice and palliative care, and related areas. It established an oral history archive of interviews with a wide range of people involved in developing and delivering hospice and palliative care.
War, resettlement, rooting and ageing: An oral history study of Polish émigrés in Britain (2001)
This PhD research highlighted the extent to which the Second World War has exerted a major influence over the lives of Polish émigrés living in Britain. The life stories of Polish émigrés collected using oral history methods reveal that processes of remembering have influenced attitudes and shaped identities.
Activities and Distinctions
Michelle has leading roles in the Oral History Society as national committee member, accredited oral history trainer and South Yorkshire Regional Network Representative. www.ohs.org.uk
Representative Publications
M Winslow, K Hitchlock, B Noble (2009) Recording Lives: The benefits of an oral history service. European Journal of Palliative Care 16, 3: 128-130
M Winslow, S.Paz, D.Clark, J.Seymour, B.Noble. (2007) Pharmacogenetics and the Relief of Cancer Pain: Implications for Society. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 2, 7: 129-134
M Winslow, D Clark (2005), St Joseph´s Hospice, Hackney: A century of caring in the East End of London. Lancaster: Observatory Publications
D Clark, N Small, M Wright, M Winslow, N Hughes (2005) A Bit of Heaven for the Few? An oral history of the modern hospice movement in the United Kingdom, Lancaster: Observatory Publications
M Winslow (2003) `Oral history and Polish émigrés in Britain´, P.Stachura (ed.) The Poles in Britain, 1940-2000: From Betrayal to Assimilation. London: Frank Cass: 85-97
T Smith, M Winslow (2000), Keeping the Faith: The Polish Community in Britain. Bradford: Bradford Heritage Recording Unit. Winner of the Arts Council Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize 2001
M Winslow, D Clark (2006) St Joseph´s Hospice, Hackney: A century of caring in the East End of London, Progress in Palliative Care 14, 2: 68-74
M Winslow, D Clark, J Seymour, F Graham, S Paz, H ten Have, M Meldrum, B Noble (2004) Changing technologies of cancer pain relief: case studies of innovation. Progress in Palliative Care 12, 3: 123-133
M Winslow, D Clark, J Seymour, B Noble, H ten Have, M Meldrum, S Paz (2003) Changing technologies of cancer pain relief: Themes from the twentieth century,
Progress in Palliative Care, 11, 5: 256-260
M Winslow, J Seymour, D Clark (2005) Stories of cancer pain: a historical perspective. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 29, 1: 22-31
M Winslow (1999) Polish Migration to Britain: War, exile and mental health, Oral History, 27, 1: 57-64
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