Dr. Juliet Rayment
Research translation | Communication | Facilitation
Small pieces
of expertise.
I provide focused, specialist support to research, health and public service teams, helping them plan for impact, engage the right people and communicate research in ways that make research useful.
I offer support ranging from an hour or two of focused thinking, to a half-day, workshop or short piece of project work.
Sometimes you need someone to deliver a whole piece of research. Sometimes you just need someone to sit down with you, challenge your thinking and help you work out the next step.
Here are some examples of what I can do. Drop me a no obligation email to find out more.
Communications
01
I can help you develop a communications plan for the life of your project, clarifying who you need to reach, what you want them to understand or do, and how best to reach them.
Together we’ll map opportunities such as newsletters, blogs, seminars, webinars and stakeholder communications around key milestones, leaving you with a practical plan and editorial calendar. I can also help brainstorm content and support individual pieces of communication.
Research translation
02
I help turn complex research findings into something useful to practitioners, decision-makers, patients, communities or the public.
I can help identify the key messages, develop an evidence summary, shape a policy narrative or case study, or find practical routes from evidence to action.
03
Facilitation
When a project needs different perspectives around the same table, good facilitation can make all the difference.
I design and facilitate focused sessions for stakeholder engagement, co-production, priority setting, Theory of Change, research interpretation, reflection and learning.
I bring people together to help everyone make sense of different perspectives and leave with a clearer sense of what happens next.
Stuck, uncertain or facing a messy problem?
Bring it to me.
Perhaps you have qualitative findings that don't quite hang together. A difficult stakeholder problem. Or just too many possible directions.
You send me some information and context in advance, then you get 60 minutes of my time. I'll ask the awkward questions, help you see the shape of the problem and work out what to do next.
We can use this time on a call, or instead, I can use it to review research plans, reports, interview guides, evaluation frameworks or engagement approaches, leaving you with focused, practical written recommendations. We can usually deal with one problem or short document in an hour.
Get in touch to book in.
£150
60 minutes
The Power
Hour.
I’m a qualitative researcher, writer and facilitator with a particular interest in the space between medical healthcare and the big social and cultural life events of birth and death.
Over the years I’ve worked across research, strategy and evaluation: inside academia, and in the public sector. I now focus my time on research communication and knowledge mobilisation.
I like making complicated things clearer. I enjoy finding the useful thread in a tangle of information, asking questions that open things up, and helping people see a problem from a slightly different angle.
I also have a longstanding fascination with the history of midwifery, archives, oral history and maps. When I’m not working, I make tiny zines, write very short fiction and generally like being creative – at an achievable scale. I also occasionally take part in (very slow) triathlons.
If you have a tricky problem, an interesting question or a half-formed idea, I’d be very happy to hear from you.
About me.
– Dr Samantha Lyle, Social Worker
"A joy to work with and a true collaborator. I think any practitioners interested in developing their theory of practice and or understanding their work through the voices of their service users and key stakeholders should ask for your help.”
– Professor Christine McCourt, Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, City St Georges, University of London.
"Working collaboratively and imaginatively with others is one of Juliet’s real strengths and I can see it is one of the things she loves about research.
We continue to get the benefit of her great skills in working with people, in taking imaginative and thoughtful approaches to research and in thinking through (as well as helping others to think through) complex questions and problems.”
Testimonials.
“We love working with Juliet. She is a really gifted, thoughtful and enthusiastic facilitator, bringing with her a love of storytelling, a huge amount of knowledge and understanding, but most importantly a genuine interest in those she is working with."
– Dr Kerry Davies, Research Co-ordinator, Helen and Douglas House Children's Hospice, Oxford.
New
collaborations.
I am always open to ideas, conversations, creative collaborations, or just a good geek-out, particularly about birth and death, thresholds and in-between spaces, oral history, social history, or using art or audio in research.
If you're also interested in these things and just fancy a cuppa and a chat, please get in touch. I'll be so pleased to hear from you.
Selected Publications.
The Re:Birth Project The Royal College of Midwives, 2022.
Collaboration for impact: co-creating a workforce development toolkit using an arts-based approach International Journal of Integrated Care, 2020
The Development of Midwifery Unit Standards for Europe Midwifery, 2020
Midwifery Unit Standards Midwifery Unit Network, 2018
Involving seldom-heard groups in a PPI process to inform the design of a proposed trial on the use of probiotics to prevent preterm birth: a case study Research Involvement and Engagement, 2017
A full list of publications is available here.