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Elizabeth Tutton
Senior Research Fellow in Patient Experience and Qualitative Methods
Liz is Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Trauma, NDORMS and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based at the Kadoorie Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow in Warwick Research for Nursing at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick.
Liz has a theme of work focussed on the experience of illness, injury and healthcare from the perspectives of multidisciplinary staff, patients and their family, carers, older people and people suffering acute traumatic injury. Mixed Methods and a range of qualitative methodologies such as phenomenology and ethnography have been utilised.
Recent work explores the concepts of hope and compassion, carer experience of dementia, patient/carer experience of hip fracture, patient experience of ankle injury, open fracture of the lower limb and major trauma.
Recent publications
A qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators for engagement with a self-led biopsychosocial support tool, Pain Rehabilitation to Optimize Major Orthopaedic Trauma REcovery (PROMOTE), for patients with complex lower-limb orthopaedic trauma.
Journal article
Fordham B. et al, (2026), Bone Jt Open, 7, 724 - 732
Pain Rehabilitation to Optimize Major Orthopaedic Trauma REcovery (PROMOTE) compared with routine care : a multicentre, parallel-group, randomized feasibility trial with an embedded qualitative study.
Journal article
Fordham B. et al, (2026), Bone Joint J, 108-B, 818 - 826
Negotiating research in the Emergency Department: a qualitative study of staff experience of the Distal Radius Acute Fracture Trial CAst versus SPlint (DRAFT3-CASP) RCT for distal radius fractures.
Journal article
Phelps EE. et al, (2026), Bone Jt Open, 7, 667 - 673
Supervised versus self-managed rehabilitation for patients with an acute first-time or recurrent patellar dislocation: the Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Post Patellar Dislocation (PRePPeD) external pilot randomized controlled trial and embedded qualitative study.
Journal article
Forde CP. et al, (2026), Bone Joint J, 108-B, 310 - 321
Overcoming obstacles - Tension, Time and Territories: A qualitative study of clinicians’ experience of a clinical trial for displaced distal radius fractures in children.
Journal article
Phelps E. et al, (2025), Bone and Joint Open