Research Fellow,
Natalie Richardson is a research fellow in the East Midlands . Natalie is an applied health and social care researcher, with a background in sociology. In her most recent work, she collaborated with several care homes in the East Midlands in the LiLaC project (Living Labs for Care) to support increased research engagement and activity in social care. Natalie's previous work has explored healthcare experience and death and dying across different settings. It includes: qualitative research exploring the care of children and young people with life-limiting conditions, developing a patient reported experience measure (PREM) for this group, and looking at how both clinical and non-clinical hospice staff can be better supported in doing their work.
Natalie is passionate about ensuring research is connected to the people it matters to most, through involving patients, service users, and health care staff in the process. She is also passionate about ensuring overlooked and under-acknowledged perspectives are involved in research. Drawing on her Masters in Social Research, she has used creative approaches and methods to involving groups such as care home and hospice staff, residents and patients in her research and engagement.
Natalie was a convenor of the British Sociological Association's Social Aspects of Death Dying and Bereavement study group between 2021 and 2025, and is an Associate Fellow of the HEA.
Short videos on Natalie's work:
Living Labs for Care (supporting care home research)
Hidden Hospice Work (ethnographic research with care home staff)
Recent publications:
2024
2025
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