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Overview

Jenny Kitzinger is a researcher affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on several specific subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Physiology, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics are centered on the following areas:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

Kitzinger has contributed to recent publications including:

  • "Caring for People with Severe Brain Injuries: Improving Health Care Professional Communication and Practice Through Online Learning" (2023) published in the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
  • "Clinically-assisted nutrition and hydration: Decisions that cannot be ignored or delayed" (2021) published in Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Celia Kitzinger
  • Jocelyn Downie
  • Ben White
  • Lindy Willmott
  • Penney Lewis

The publication venues where Kitzinger's work most often appears are:

  • Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
  • Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)

Best Publications

  • Qualitative Research: Introducing focus groups

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • The methodology of focus groups: the importance of interaction between research participants

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • Developing focus group research : politics, theory and practice

    Rosaline S. Barbour;Jenny Kitzinger

  • Anonymising interview data: challenges and compromise in practice

    Benjamin Saunders;Jenny Kitzinger;Celia Kitzinger

  • Introduction: The Challenge and Promise of Focus Groups

    Jenny Kitzinger;Rosaline S. Barbour

  • Expectations, Experiences, and Psychological Outcomes of Childbirth: A Prospective Study of 825 Women

    Josephine M. Green;Vanessa A. Coupland;Jenny V. Kitzinger

  • Who are you kidding? : Children, power, and the struggle against sexual abuse

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • Framing Abuse: Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Violence Against Children

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • Media templates: patterns of association and the (re)construction of meaning over time:

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • Researching risk and the media

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • The Rise and Fall of Risk Reporting Media Coverage of Human Genetics Research, `False Memory Syndrome' and `Mad Cow Disease'

    Jenny Kitzinger;Jacquie Reilly

  • Representing infant feeding: content analysis of British media portrayals of bottle feeding and breast feeding.

    Lesley Henderson;Jenny Kitzinger;Josephine Green

  • The human drama of genetics : hard and soft media representations of inherited breast cancer

    Lesley Henderson;Jenny Kitzinger

  • The mass media and power in modern Britain

    J. E. T. Eldridge;Jenny Kitzinger;Kevin Williams

  • Focus group research: using group dynamics to explore perceptions, experiences and understandings

    Jenny Kitzinger

  • Forecasting science futures: legitimising hope and calming fears in the embryo stem cell debate.

    Jenny Kitzinger;Clare Williams

  • THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR DEATH AFTER SEVERE BRAIN INJURY: FAMILY EXPERIENCES

    Jenny Kitzinger;Celia Kitzinger

  • Human Cloning in the Media

    Joan Haran;Jenny Kitzinger;Maureen McNeil;Kate O'Riordan

  • Envisaging the embryo in stem cell research: rhetorical strategies and media reporting of the ethical debates.

    Clare Williams;Jenny Kitzinger;Lesley Henderson

  • Human Cloning in the Media: From Science Fiction to Science Practice

    Joan Haran;Jenny Kitzinger;Maureen McNeil;Kate O'Riordan

Frequent Co-Authors

Celia Kitzinger
Celia Kitzinger University of York
Clare Williams
Clare Williams Brunel University London
Kate Hunt
Kate Hunt University of Stirling
Daniel Wight
Daniel Wight University of Glasgow
Sarah Nettleton
Sarah Nettleton University of York
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Janice M. Morse
Janice M. Morse University of Utah
Linda Clare
Linda Clare University of Exeter
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto

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