Users' Experiences of CancerCare - Kershaw Fellowship

Zoe Cockshott started her PhD within the Observatory in October 2005.  Her study is funded by the Kershaw Fellowship which was set up to examine users’ experiences of CancerCare, a local voluntary organisation providing complementary therapies, counselling and support services to cancer patients, their carers and families. 

Zoë plans to use qualitative methods to explore users’ experiences of CancerCare and mixed methodologies to explore what factors influence decisions to use (or not use) CancerCare services.

In her previous post of Research Psychologist in the University of Bristol Medical School, her work was in the field of coping and adjustment to long term illness and disability, particularly Rheumatoid Arthritis.  Her main research activities have revolved around the development and evaluation of self-management programmes, and development of outcome measures, with specific interests in control and self-efficacy issues and “timing” of psycho-social interventions.