RESEARCH CONSULTANCY SERVICES: ADDING VALUE TO RESEARCH
Watson Research and Training Ltd provides consultancy advice and input to individuals and organisations on:
- Undertaking research, audit, quality improvement and service evaluation
- Project and research design
- Preparation of research funding applications
- Review of research funding applications
- Review of manuscripts prior to submission
- Review of REF-readiness (Environment Statements, Impact Case Studies and selected publications)
The Watson Research and Training Ltd consortium undertakes contract research related to health and healthcare. The consortium comprises individuals with expertise in health systems, the pharmacy profession, the pharmaceutical industry (including biotechnology), higher education and local government. In addition to their areas of topic-specific expertise, these individuals have extensive skills and experiences in the full range of research methods including:
- Literature reviews (systematic, scoping)
- Quantitative methods (surveys, randomised controlled trials, statistical analyses)
- Qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, observation, participatory methods)
Watson Research and Training Ltd works with a wide range of clients including healthcare, especially pharmacy, higher education, and the third sector.
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Patient Safety Commissioner (England)
- Pharmacy Magazine
- South West Academic Health Sciences Network
- The National Pharmacy Association
- Kingston University
- NHS Education for Scotland
- Robert Gordon University
- University of Bath
- University of Bristol
- University of Oslo
- University of Strathclyde
- University of West of England
- Crohn’s and Colitis UK
It was a pleasure to work with Professor Watson on The Safety Gap report. She provided an excellent and thorough research report with sensitivity and understanding of the user communities bringing her expertise to this project. She also gave a strong presentation of her findings at the launch of the report.
We are very grateful to Professor Margaret Watson, Watson Research and Training Ltd, for the external review provided during the process of writing the Environment Statement for our submission to REF2021 Unit of Assessment (UoA) 3.
We commissioned Professor Watson’s services in order to seek her expertise and provide us with feedback on our Environment Statement. This invitation was extended towards the latter stages of completion of our Environment Statement where she gave constructive comments on both the content and the presentation of the written report.
Our rating of 87.5% Internationally Excellent is a good reflection of the quality of our research environment. Professor Watson’s awareness and experience of the ‘Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy’ Unit was extremely useful in this respect.
There are a lot of language editing services that correct grammar and linguistics. Professor Mags Watson’s services provide more, much more! She made us rethink the way we had phrased key messages and what our aims REALLY were. She rigorously stripped the structure of our discussion chapter to the bone which, after thorough discussions and hard work, opened the door to publishing two of our papers in high impact journals. I highly recommend her services.
Working with Mags from Watson Research and Training was a pleasure. Her research was of exceptional quality from submitting the tender, and planning the work, to delivering the finished report. This was all delivered on time and in budget. I highly recommend her.”
The Safety Gap
It was a pleasure to work with Professor Watson on The Safety Gap report. She provided an excellent and thorough research report with sensitivity and understanding of the user communities bringing her expertise to this project. She also gave a strong presentation of her findings at the launch of the report.
Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner (England)