The Medical Sociology and Health Experience Research Group (MS & HERG) is based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
The research team (past and present) at MS & HERG has conducted, or worked in collaboration with other universities to produce all of the research that appears on the website. Some of the projects are led by collaborating universities such as the University of York using the same research methodology.
The HEXI study (formerly DIPEx - Database of Individual Patient Experiences and then Naratives of Health and illness for Healthtalkonline) has conducted 126 different projects over the last 25 years under ethics approval by Berkshire Ethics Committee REC No 12/SC/0495. Six of the research projects from MS & HERG under this ethics approval are now published on the Social Care Talk website. The other research projects have separate ethical approval - please see the credit pages for these details.
The research material for each project on Social Care Talk is collected and analysed using the same rigorous qualitative research methods - the HEXI methodology, to ensure that the information provided was balanced and accurate.
For each interview our researchers conduct, just a few extracts will be chosen to feature on this website, but their whole interview will be used in the analysis. Full sets of interviews (usually 35-50 per collection) and supporting documents are retained in the Medical Sociology and Health Experiences Research Group (MS & HERG) archive. Interviews in the archive and website are all copyrighted to the University of Oxford and available to qualitative researchers for secondary analysis (subject to approval and administrative costs).
