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Table 1 Stakeholder focus group themes

From: The role of Allied Health Professions and Nursing Research Internships in developing a research culture: a mixed-methods exploration of stakeholder perspectives

Key themes

Sub-themes

1. Programme and regional variations:

• No standardisation in recruitment and outcome metrics

• Lack of communication channels post internship

2. Internship professional differences and characteristics

• AHPs better represented than nurses, some AHPs rarely represented

• Information dissemination variable across settings (e.g. poor representation in the community setting)

• Previous Masters experience as a barrier or facilitator contested and debated

3. Barriers to success

• Influence of research culture of organisation

• Middle managers are gatekeepers to progression

• Gap between Internship and pre-doctorate NIHR level widening

• Lack of joined up approaches (various research initiatives)

4. Enablers of success

• Supervisory relationship is key to success and continuation

• Should be intern driven

• Showcase impact on service transformation and culture

  1. AHP Allied Health Professions, NIHR National Institute of Health Research