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Background: COVID-19 raised the profile of nursing globally, with widespread recognition of nurses' valuable roles during the pandemic. There is a unique opportunity to capitalise on this momentum to support nurses to become more engaged in and disseminate their research widely. One way to enable this is to develop academic writing retreats for nurses.

Aim: To report on the development of academic writing retreats to engage nurses in research.

Discussion: Four writing retreats were set up in the south of England between September 2019 and April 2021. Two were delivered face to face on hospital premises and two online. The retreats provided uninterrupted time for writing an academic publication, mentorship, peer support networks, and question and answer sessions. The retreats were attended by 42 health professionals, with more than 25 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. The retreats have enabled learning communities to develop, fostering long-term networking opportunities.

Conclusion: Academic writing retreats for nurses have widespread benefits, providing nurses with uninterrupted time and space to focus on writing high-quality publications and creating networking opportunities through peer support and mentorship channels.

Implications for practice: Academic writing retreats are a simple, yet effective way to get nurses to engage in research by writing about their own spheres of practice.

Background: Self-administered questionnaires are efficient and low-cost ways of collecting data with wide cohorts. Nonetheless, their use in studies can result in a high occurrence of missing data, which can affect the statistical power, representativeness and generalisability of the findings. Imputation methods have been considered efficient statistical techniques for managing missing data. However, they have also been associated with limits, such as the risk of under-estimation of the effect, lower statistical power and decrease of correlation among variables. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of using prevention strategies to avoid missing data before the data are analysed.

Aim: To identify strategies for preventing the occurrence of missing data and to discuss their effects, as well as their methodological and statistical considerations.

Discussion: The article discusses prevention strategies related to the administration format and follow-up and reminders. Strategies such as the use of electronic tablets, email and telephone reminders are associated with lower rates of missing data in self-administered questionnaires. However, methodological and statistical limits, including the absence of a comparison group and statistical validation of the reported results, limits the capacity to establish robust consensus.

Conclusion: Prevention strategies represent relevant and feasible avenues for handling missing data in a wide range of clinical, nursing and epidemiological research. More projects based on robust design are needed to ensure accurate and reliable data are collected from patients, families, communities and clinicians.

Implications for practice: It is important for clinicians and nurses to understand the phenomenon of missing data and the strategies available to prevent missing data, to collect data representing the patients' and families' perspectives and experiences.

Background: This article focuses on approaches to qualitative research interviewing that draw direct inspiration from psychoanalytic therapy. The reflective discussion piece provides a critical spotlight on this method to promote reflection and ethical application.

Aim: To provide clarity regarding the meaning of psychoanalytically informed, psycho-social research and the interpretive nature of qualitative interviews and of therapy, and to reflect on nurse researchers' partiality for using quasi-dynamic interpretative comments and the sharing of formulations in interviews.

Discussion: The authors review relevant literature, and comment on the apprehension and uncertainty researchers may experience with this type of research approach.

Conclusion: Researchers should consider how they conduct themselves as interviewers and what to share of the analysis of participants' accounts based on the specifics of the research, including their or their team's experience of conducting psychotherapy and their and participants' expectations about what may be therapeutic about interviews.

Implications for practice: Psychoanalytically informed research interviewing should be used in a reflective way by nurse researchers with attention paid to the limitations and possibilities of parallels between psychotherapeutic and research interview dialogue.

Background: Conducting culturally sensitive research into male experiences can be challenging for female researchers. Despite this, there are very few published reflective accounts of how they have overcome these difficulties.

Aim: To illustrate a female researcher's challenges in conducting research into young men's experiences of puberty in Pakistan and highlight the strategies used to overcome these.

Discussion: An important challenge for the researcher was creating an environment in which participants felt able to share their experiences. This was overcome by the incorporation of the experiences of public involvement contributors in the development of the project, offering a choice of interview format to participants and other solutions driven by the 'insider' position of the researcher. The researcher's 'outsider' role as a mature and pregnant woman appeared to create a 'safe' environment, allowing the young men to openly share their personal experiences.

Conclusion: Female researchers can successfully conduct culturally sensitive research with young men in patriarchal societies such as Pakistan. The key is to be aware of potential cultural issues and to use any insider/outsider positionality to the greatest effect.

Implications for practice: In addition to adapting procedures, such as gaining trust, building rapport and assuring a non-judgemental and comfortable environment, the 'outsider' position of the female researcher should be given due consideration when undertaking culturally sensitive research with men.

Background: The author is a professional doctorate student and full-time nurse in an education role in a UK NHS Trust. COVID-19 caused a major disruption to her research, which focused on nursing workforce development in primary care. She received ethical approval for the research in February 2020 and had just begun to collect data as the country entered its first period of lockdown and all activity not related directly to COVID-19 was sidelined.

Aim: To share the author's reflections on this experience and make recommendations that may help others whose research is disrupted.

Discussion: The author had not considered in her plans the disruption that would be caused by COVID-19, but she adapted her study's design to minimise some of its effects and also discovered some new opportunities.

Conclusion: Nurse researchers whose studies are disrupted can adapt to overcome the challenges and try to find new opportunities.

Implications for practice: The author hopes that sharing her reflections will encourage other nurse researchers who face unexpected disruptions to their research.

Background: A community of research practice (CRP) was established to increase research capacity and provide learning opportunities and networking for healthcare practitioners, working within a Children's Care Group. The CRP aimed to engage research-interested practitioners in research to develop their skills and confidence, encourage networking, and build research capacity.

Aim: To report the results of a service evaluation that was undertaken to review the CRP's value in practice.

Discussion: Thematic analysis revealed four themes - 'positive environment', 'confidence', 'professional development' and 'networking' - highlighting benefits from the CRP, alongside the challenges encountered.

Conclusion: This article highlights the significant contribution of CRP for practitioners in the context of an innovative organisation with a supportive culture.

Implications for practice: A CRP empowers healthcare practitioners to engage with research while in clinical practice, enabling increased research confidence, and the development of research skill and knowledge and enhanced networking. CRP can potentially influence recruitment and retention.