Ambulance identity adaptation interviews
AURIS is inviting people with ambulance service experience to take part in a research interview about identity, role change and what support can miss.
Before you decide
AURIS Institute is an education and research organisation. Taking part is not therapy, clinical treatment, medical care or crisis support. If your safety or daily functioning is affected, please use your usual clinical or occupational support routes, contact your GP or NHS 111, or call 999 in an emergency.
Why this interview strand is open
Ambulance work can carry a strong professional identity, but the public evidence base for identity adaptation in this sector is still limited. This strand asks what is specific to ambulance work, what is shared with other service roles, and what should not be assumed from military, police or fire evidence.
The interview is about identity adaptation: how work shapes a person, what changes when a role changes or ends, and what support does or does not notice. It is not a clinical assessment and it is not a review of an employer.
Who this is for
- People who currently work, or have worked, in an ambulance service role.
- Clinical, control room, operational support, leadership and voluntary ambulance roles where the work shaped identity.
- People who have changed role, stepped back, left, retired, moved into management, or stayed in role while feeling their relationship with the work change.
- UK-based participants, unless a separate research arrangement has been agreed.
What the interview explores
- How the ambulance role became part of your identity.
- What changed during pressure, injury, absence, role change, retirement or leaving.
- What belonging, trust, control room culture, crew culture or public expectation meant in practice.
- What support helped, what support missed the identity part, and what should be handled differently.
How the interview is handled
- Taking part is voluntary. You can stop, pause or skip a question.
- Do not share patient-identifiable information or operational details that could identify a person, incident or crew.
- Public writing uses patterns, not names, direct quotes, dates or identifiable case details.
- If the conversation raises clinical, safeguarding or crisis concerns, AURIS signposts to appropriate support rather than continuing as if it is research only.
Register interest
Email enquiries@aurisidentity.com with the sector in the subject line. You can ask for the participant information before deciding whether to take part.
The wider research programme is listed under current research and published outputs are listed under publications.
Interested in the research?
AURIS welcomes careful, sector-aware conversations that help test and strengthen the evidence base.