Meet the researcher - Dr Sharlene Greenwood
Sharlene is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer (now known as a NIHR Advanced Research Fellow) and a consultant physiotherapist at King’s College Hospital. Her research focuses on evaluating the feasibility of exercise-based rehabilitation for patients with chronic kidney disease. She talks to us about her research and also how we supported her in obtaining research funding. [Transcript begins] [music] 00:07 Dr Sharlene Greenwood: My name is Dr Sharlene Greenwood. I'm a Consultant Renal Physiotherapist at King's College Hospital in London. I've worked at King's for nearly 20 years. I've got about 13 years of experience as a specialist renal physiotherapist, and I look after 15 therapists, both doing research and clinical work in renal cardiac and other areas of physical activity. I finished my PhD four years ago. I am now doing an NIHR clinical lectureship. The project that I'm looking at is evaluating the effect of exercise therapy on kidney function and on the progression of kidney disease. And unlike other conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, where routine exercise therapy is part of NHS care, this doesn't happen for patients who've got chronic kidney disease. So this really inspired me to research the area. 01:02 DG: At the beginning of my research journey, I struggled to attract research funding. I started to use the Research Design Service in 2009. A colleague told me, they were unbelievably helpful in shaping the project, helping with the design, helping with the qualitative component, really helping to shape the PPIs or the patient and public involvement section. And then when I was successful in getting an interview, they were amazing at helping with interview practice and shaping the slides that you have to do for interview practice for the NIHR. And then, really, I've been in touch with them throughout every proposal I've done since. 01:39 DG: When you get to the point of interview, it's quite scary, and having the Research Design Service think of all of these questions that you may or may not be asked means that when you actually end up going for interview, you feel really well prepared. And I've continued to work with them over the years and it's got bigger and bigger and they offer more and more. Every time I do an application, there's another strand to the service. It's become a really, really robust service for helping to develop projects. By the end of my career, I would like to see that all patients who've got chronic kidney disease have access to exercise therapy, advice on physical activity and do the same types of exercise programs that are offered to patients who've got other chronic health problems. Certainly, the funding that I've been awarded to do this has only been made possible because I've had the help that I've had from the RDS. [music] [Transcript ends] Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel! Visit our website: www.rds-london.nihr.ac.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/NIHR_RDSLondon
Sharlene is a NIHR Clinical Lecturer (now known as a NIHR Advanced Research Fellow) and a consultant physiotherapist at King’s College Hospital. Her research focuses on evaluating the feasibility of exercise-based rehabilitation for patients with chronic kidney disease. She talks to us about her research and also how we supported her in obtaining research funding. [Transcript begins] [music] 00:07 Dr Sharlene Greenwood: My name is Dr Sharlene Greenwood. I'm a Consultant Renal Physiotherapist at King's College Hospital in London. I've worked at King's for nearly 20 years. I've got about 13 years of experience as a specialist renal physiotherapist, and I look after 15 therapists, both doing research and clinical work in renal cardiac and other areas of physical activity. I finished my PhD four years ago. I am now doing an NIHR clinical lectureship. The project that I'm looking at is evaluating the effect of exercise therapy on kidney function and on the progression of kidney disease. And unlike other conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, where routine exercise therapy is part of NHS care, this doesn't happen for patients who've got chronic kidney disease. So this really inspired me to research the area. 01:02 DG: At the beginning of my research journey, I struggled to attract research funding. I started to use the Research Design Service in 2009. A colleague told me, they were unbelievably helpful in shaping the project, helping with the design, helping with the qualitative component, really helping to shape the PPIs or the patient and public involvement section. And then when I was successful in getting an interview, they were amazing at helping with interview practice and shaping the slides that you have to do for interview practice for the NIHR. And then, really, I've been in touch with them throughout every proposal I've done since. 01:39 DG: When you get to the point of interview, it's quite scary, and having the Research Design Service think of all of these questions that you may or may not be asked means that when you actually end up going for interview, you feel really well prepared. And I've continued to work with them over the years and it's got bigger and bigger and they offer more and more. Every time I do an application, there's another strand to the service. It's become a really, really robust service for helping to develop projects. By the end of my career, I would like to see that all patients who've got chronic kidney disease have access to exercise therapy, advice on physical activity and do the same types of exercise programs that are offered to patients who've got other chronic health problems. Certainly, the funding that I've been awarded to do this has only been made possible because I've had the help that I've had from the RDS. [music] [Transcript ends] Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel! Visit our website: www.rds-london.nihr.ac.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/NIHR_RDSLondon