EMBRACING THE RAPID ACCELERATION OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN RESEARCH DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CONDUCTING MIDWIFERY RESEARCH IN THE NHS AS A CLINICAL ACADEMIC DOCTORAL STUDENT

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every aspect of our lives, including how non-COVIDrelated research was conducted in the NHS during the third national lockdown in 2020. Charlotte Clayton, midwife and Clinical Academic Doctoral student at Bournemouth University, reflects on the dilemmas caused by the pandemic as she prepared to recruit members of the public and midwives to her PhD study in the NHS, and the opportunities it provided both her and the people who took part.