Selected Publications

• Chapple Alison and Ziebland Sue (2011) How the Internet is changing the experience of bereavement by suicide: a qualitative study in the UK. Health (London), 15(2):173-87.

• Chapple Alison, Swift C, and Ziebland Sue (2011) The role of spirituality and religion for those bereaved due to traumatic death. Mortality, 16((1)):1-19.

• France E F, Locock L, Hunt K, Ziebland S, Field K, and Wyke S (2011) Imagined futures: how experiential knowledge of disability affects parents' decision making about foetal abnormality. Health Expect.

• France Emma F, Wyke Sally, Ziebland Sue, Entwistle Vikki A, and Hunt Kate (2011) How personal experiences feature in women's accounts of use of information for decisions about antenatal diagnostic testing for foetal abnormality. Soc Sci Med, 72(5):755-62.

• Prinjha S, Evans J, Ziebland S, and McPherson A (2011) 'A mastectomy for something that wasn't even truly invasive cancer'. Women's understandings of having a mastectomy for screen-detected DCIS: a qualitative study. J Med Screen, 18(1):34-40.

Sue Ziebland

 Sue is a medical sociologist with a particular interest in qualitative research methods. Since completing her MSc in Social Research Methods in 1986 she has worked as a researcher in the academic, NHS and voluntary sectors. From 1994 to 2003 she was an ICRF (now Cancer Research UK) Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford. She is now a University  Reader in Qualitative Health Research.

Sue is research director of the DIPEx (personal experiences of health and illness) research group, which conducts qualitative interview studies for a multimedia website  www.healthtalkonline.org (formerly www.dipex.org). She has published over 80 peer-reviewed research papers and written several articles and chapters on qualitative research methods, especially analysis of qualitative data,  and runs regular courses in qualitative research methods (with colleagues in the DIPEx research group).

In 2005 she started a very part time secondment as a Professorial fellow at the University of Stirling to help Profs Sally Wyke and Kate Hunt to develop a programme on self-care.

Key Publications:

Ziebland S Emergency Contraception: an anomalous position in the family planning repertoire? Social Science and Medicine. 1999  49 1409-1417

A Herxheimer, A McPherson, R Miller, S Shepperd, J Yaphe, S Ziebland  A database of Patients’ Experiences (DIPEx): new ways of sharing experiences and information using a multi-media approach. Lancet 2000 355 1540-43

Ziebland S, Wyke S, Seaman P, Fairhurst K, Walker J, Glasier A. What happened when Scottish women were given advanced supplies of emergency contraception? A survey and qualitative study of women’s views and experiences. Social Science and Medicine 2005, 60 (8): 1767 1779

Ziebland S The importance of being expert: how men and women with cancer use the Internet Social Science and Medicine  2004; 59 :1783-1793

Ziebland S. Evans J, McPherson A. Ziebland S, Evans J, McPherson A. The choice is yours? How women with ovarian cancer  make sense of treatment choices. Patient Education and Counseling 62 (2006) 361-367