Staff profile: Dr Sarah Li

Sarah Li Position: Honorary Research Fellow

 

Biography

Dr Sarah Li is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences following her retirement from Senior Lectureship, a position she held since 1995. Dr Li has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as significant experience in curriculum development (sociology: in particular gender, race, and ethnicity). She served as a member of Faculty research committee. In 2006, she served as Chair in Curriculum Development at the University of Singapore Institute of Management Studies. This resulted in the publication of core course text books in sociology of health and illness for their students. She also served as an eternal examiner for one year for Essential Palliative Care at the Princess Alice Hospice and Surrey University.

In 2005–06, Dr Li received a Promising Researcher’s Fellowship award to conduct her post-doctoral research into the supervisor-student relationship in PhD supervision, in collaboration with Professor Clive Seale of Brunel University. This work resulted in a series of successful published papers in the journals Studies in Higher Education and Qualitative Health Research. She was also commissioned by The Times Higher Education Supplement to write an article on her PhD experience, which was published in 2007.

Current activities include MSc, MPhil and PhD supervision in the UK; conducting PhD oral examinations as an internal and external examiner; conducting MPhil/PhD upgrade viva and mock PhD viva.

Dr Li has a wide range of research interests - in cross-cultural studies of dignity of older people in residential homes (Hong Kong and UK), and in psychosocial palliative care and the palliative care needs of people who suffer from Parkinson’s Disease, nvCJD, Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Disease (COPD) and Alzheimer’s Disease. Her funded research projects include the exploration of the supervisor-student relationship in PhD supervisions; the meaning of dignity and privacy in residential homes for non-English speaking older Chinese residents in London and Hong Kong; and an exploration of the meaning of mental illness/mental health in a population of older Chinese people in the UK.

Her research work has been published in: Social Sciences and Medicine; Sociology; Qualitative Health Research; Studies in Higher Education; The Times Higher Education Supplement; Palliative Medicine; the British Medical Journal; the European Journal of Cancer Care. Dr Li also reviews articles for Social Science and Medicine; Sociology of Health and Illness; Qualitative Health Research; and the Journal of Interprofessional Care. She is a member of the editorial board for Qualitative Health Research.

Interests

Multi-agency and interprofessional working particularly in end of life issues; long term conditions; race, ethnicity and gender issues; mental health, dignity and privacy of older Chinese people.

Publications

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Number of items: 8.

Article

Gallagher, Ann , Li, Sarah , Wainwright, Paul , Jones, Ian Rees and Lee, Diana (2008) Dignity in the care of older people: a review of the theoretical and empirical literature. BMC Nursing, 7(11), ISSN (online) 1472-6955

Li, Sarah and Ng, Julie (2008) End-of-life care: nurses' experiences in caring for dying patients with profound learning disabilities--a descriptive case study. Palliative Medicine, 22(8), pp. 949-955. ISSN (print) 0269-2163

Li, Sarah and Seale, Clive (2007) Learning to do qualitative data analysis: an observational study of doctoral work. Qualitative Health Research, 17(10), pp. 1442-1452. ISSN (print) 1049-7323

Li, Sarah and Arber, Anne (2006) The construction of troubled and credible patients: a study of emotion talk in palliative care settings. Qualitative Health Research, 16(1), pp. 27-46. ISSN (print) 1049-7323

Li, Sarah (2005) Doing criticism in 'symbiotic niceness': a study of palliative care nurses' talk. Social Science & Medicine, 60(9), pp. 1949-1959. ISSN (print) 0277-9536

Li, Sarah (2004) "Symbiotic niceness": constructing a therapeutic relationship in psychosocial palliative care. Social Science & Medicine, 58(12), pp. 2571-2583. ISSN (print) 0277-9536

Ng, J. and Li, S. (2003) A survey exploring the educational needs of care practitioners in learning disability (LD) settings in relation to death, dying and people with learning disabilities. European Journal Of Cancer Care, 12(1), pp. 12-19. ISSN (print) 0961-5423

Conference or Workshop Item

Li, Sarah (2008) Acquiring a sociological identity: an observational study of a PhD project. In: Medical Sociolgogy Group Annual Conference; 4-6 Sep 2008, University of Sussex, Brighton.

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Consultancies

  • Chair in Curriculum Development, University of Singnapore Institute of Managment Studies, Jan–Dec 2006