Dr Trudy Goodenough
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Contact DetailsTelephone: 0117 331 0721 |
Biography
Trudy is a qualified nurse and midwife, with a PhD in Developmental Psychology. While her previous work with children and families has been varied, including health care practice (as a midwife), child care provision and research, the common theme throughout reflects her aspiration to discover and implement ways of improving the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families. Trudy has worked at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine since February 2001 and during this time she has worked on two Wellcome Trust funded research projects, the EPEG project and the YREC project.
Teaching and Professional Training Activities
Trudy currently works as part of a team from the Centre for Ethics in Medicine to develop new training programmes in research ethics and clinical ethics for members of ethics committees including: Clinical Ethics Committees; NRES committees and University Research Ethics Committees.
Research Interests
Trudy’s main research interests are in developmental psychology, ethical issues in research with children and young people, and health care.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles:
- Goodenough, Review. Journal of Research in Nursing 2007; 12(5): 459-460
- Coad & Goodenough, Short Commentary and Review. Paediatric Nursing 2007; 19(2): 10
- Williamson, Goodenough, Kent & Ashcroft, Conducting Research with Children: The limits of confidentiality and child protection protocols. Children and Society 2005; 19(5): 397-409
- Goodenough, Williamson, Kent & Ashcroft, What did you think about that? Researching children’s perceptions of participation in a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study. Children and Society 2003; 17: 113-125
- Ashcroft, Williamson, Goodenough & Kent, Children’s consent to research participation: social context and personal experience invalidate fixed cut-off rules. American Journal of Bioethics 2003; 3(4):16-18
- Kent, Williamson, Goodenough & Ashcroft, Social Science gets the Ethics Treatment: Research governance and ethical review. Sociological Research Online 2002; 7(4)
Papers in Edited Collections:
- Goodenough, Williamson, Kent & Ashcroft, Ethical Protection: Participants views. Including children in the debate. In Smyth & Williamson, eds., Researchers and their “Subjects”: Ethics, power, knowledge and consent, 2004, Policy Press; Bristol
- Goodenough, Children’s Focus Groups: Location, Location, Location. In Hallowell, Lawton & Gregory, eds., Reflections on Research: The realities of doing research in the social sciences, 2004, Oxford: OUP
- Williamson, Goodenough, Kent & Ashcroft, Children's Participation in Genetic Epidemiology: Consent and Control. In Tutton & Corrigan, eds., Donating, Collecting and Exploiting Human Tissue, 2004, Routledge; London
Additional Information
When not at work, Trudy can be found puzzling over how to keep up with the various interests and pursuits of her family, and still find the time to enjoy hill walking and body-boarding!