Supporting healthcare professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds to ‘Step Into’ a clinical academic career

Bramley, L, Bond, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9945-8577, Stacey, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0787-4319, Dring, E, Cowley, A, Booth, V, Janiszewski, H and Cooper, J, 2024. Supporting healthcare professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds to ‘Step Into’ a clinical academic career. Journal of Research in Nursing, 29 (4-5), pp. 305-317. ISSN 1744-9871

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Abstract

Background: There is a need to develop research focussed healthcare professionals with the clinical experience and academic skills to meet the needs of a diverse population. Yet, healthcare professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds are often faced with personal, structural or organisational barriers, which prevent them from accessing and applying for development opportunities.

Aim: To undertake an evaluation of the Step into Clinical Academic Careers’ programme. The programme was designed specifically for nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals (NMAHPs) working in NHS organisations, from ethnic minority backgrounds, who had the ambition to pursue a research or clinical academic career.

Methods: Qualitative individual interviews and online evaluations were conducted to identify the views, perspectives and experiences of participants who undertook the programme. Participants were also followed up after 6 months.

Results: Participants provided insights into four key areas relating to outcomes of the programme. These were (1) increased confidence, (2) increased motivation, (3) developing networks and (4) inspiring people.

Conclusions: Organisations must work purposefully and collaboratively to realise equitable support for individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds, through targeted mentoring and leadership development training. Failure to do this will result in a continuation of limited diversity amongst clinical academic and clinical research leaders.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Research in Nursing
Creators:	Bramley, L., Bond, C., Stacey, G., Dring, E., Cowley, A., Booth, V., Janiszewski, H. and Cooper, J.
Publisher:	Sage
Date:	August 2024
Volume:	29
Number:	4-5
ISSN:	1744-9871
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/17449871241232332 DOI 2464728 Other
Rights:	This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	23 Jul 2025 07:50
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2025 07:52
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53989

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