Siobhan McHugh


Siobhan McHugh, Senior Researcher; Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre & University of Leeds, School of Healthcare, England




Senior Researcher; Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre & University of Leeds, School of Healthcare, England





Siobhan currently works as the Senior Researcher on The Response Study which is a multi-site evaluation of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF); a national policy to guide NHS Trusts in how to respond when things go wrong in healthcare. She previously worked as the Senior Research Fellow on the Learn Together project, and is still affiliated as a contributing researcher leading specifically on a sub-study focused on incident investigations after death by suicide. The Learn Together project is a multi-site NIHR HS&DR funded project to co-design and test guidance to support involvement and engagement of patients, families and healthcare staff in serious incident investigations in the NHS in England. Siobhan works primarily as a qualitative researcher, employing various qualitative methods. She has a particular interest in novel qualitative methods, and has use video-reflexive ethnography extensively within acute maternity services and other healthcare contexts.