Language, ideas, knowledge and emotions all come together to help us share our experiences and learn from one another. Here is a collection of things that help inspire and inform us. If we’ve missed anything, let us know and we can add it to the Library.
Websites
Medicines for Children
The main UK website to help families to use medicines. The MINIMEDs project will be working with MfC to improve their resource or suggest new ways to support families to use medicines.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
Sometimes called the NIHR for short, the NIHR has kindly funded this project.
Books
A library wouldn’t be complete without a book list! Here are the books that have informed and inspired the project.
“Still Not Safe” by Wear and Sutcliffe
“The Wounded Storyteller” by Arthur Frank
“The Illness Narratives” by Arthur Kleinman
“Somebody I Used To Know” by Wendy Mitchell
“Metamorphosis: Life in Pieces” by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Theory
Theory is important and so it has got its own section. Theory helps us to understand the complicated world we live in. It provides the scaffolding for us to build ideas and knowledge in an organised way, to make sense of the complicated world around us.
The main theory we are using is called “Moments of Resilience” written by Professor Carl Macrae. If you want to learn more about this, you can read the published article here:
The clever bit about our research has been to combine the theory with a particular method from the research world. This is called “Qualitative Longitudinal Research” or shortened to LQR. LQR put simply is research that happens over many points in time. There is a good paper written recently that explains the method and why it can work so well when learning about people’s experiences.
Outputs
These are things that have been made by the project and published online via a link. In date order:
2025
2024
2023
2021
MINIMEDs 