Contributors
Paul Buckley is a family and systemic psychotherapist accredited to the UK Council of Psychotherapy. He currently works within the NHS as part of a Community Mental Health Team. With a first degree in psychology, he is trained in person-centred, psychodynamic and systemic counselling and therapeutic approaches.
Dr Sue Elmer is an associate principal lecturer in the Institute of Childhood and Education, Leeds Trinity University, where she is programme leader of the MA family support and the BA child and family welfare studies degrees and supervises PhD students. She is a social worker registered by the Health and Care Professional Council, a Relate-trained counsellor and a full member of the British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT). Sue is experienced in teaching and training students registered on professional awards as part of their continuing professional development (CPD), including professionals in the teaching, health and social care sectors. Her research interests cover social work, domestic abuse, integrated practice, practitioner research and play therapy.
Dr Pete Greasley is a research tutor on the doctorate in clinical psychology at Lancaster University. He has conducted research and published academic articles on a range of topics, among them psychology, nursing, education and sceptical inquiry. He has also published two books: Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS: An Introduction for Health and Social Science (Maidenhead, Open University Press, 2008) and Doing Essays and Assignments: Essential Tips for Students (London: Sage, 2011).
Patricia Green is an assistant professor in clinical skills in the Faculty of Medicine at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. She is a UK-trained midwife and nurse and has worked across a range of hospital, education and training contexts since emigrating in 1989. Her research interests are in medical education, where she is currently investigating medical student identity, and also in the area of women's health, in which she is involved in a collaborative study that aims to examine, using self-reported data, the association between mode of birth and perinatal and psychosocial risk factors in the maternal and infant physical and emotional health outcomes.
Dr James Jackson is a chartered psychologist and an associate fellow of the British Psychology Society, as well as an associate principal lecturer at Leeds Trinity University. An active member of the British Tinnitus Association, he speaks regularly at tinnitus information days and to self-help groups across the north of England. His research interests include how people cope with tinnitus distress, how tinnitus affects individual sufferers, and how individual differences affect appraisal of the tinnitus sensation. He is also interested in the concept of 'mental toughness' and how personality and environment can affect pain tolerance.
Dr Patricia Johnson has held senior positions in both the clinical and the academic arena. Currently she is employed as an associate professor and simulation manager in the clinical skills area of the medical programme at Bond University, Queensland. Before this, she managed the international programmes and postgraduate critical care nursing programmes at Griffith University, Queensland. Patricia maintains her currency of practice as a visiting clinical academic in the intensive care unit of a local private hospital.
Dr Gabrielle Tracy McClelland is a registered mental and physical health nurse with a professional background and special interest in substance misuse and youth sexual exploitation. She took a master's degree in research methods for the social sciences while working as a lecturer at the University of Bradford. Before this Gabrielle managed a substance misuse service in Bradford and studied to become a health professional educator. Currently she is a senior lecturer/postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bradford in the Division of Nursing.
Dr Joe MacDonagh is a chartered psychologist and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is also a chartered scientist and a former president of the Psychological Society of Ireland. In addition to lecturing at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin, he works as a consultant to various hospitals around Ireland. His research interests include the dialogical construction of nursing identity and the nature and genesis of depression.
Beverley Norris is a lecturer within the School of Nursing at the University of Bradford. She has a clinical background in palliative care and has expertise in quality assurance, having facilitated peer review audits within specialist palliative care settings. She leads on communication skills education for nurses and other health professionals at the university and teaches on end of life care issues within the pre-registration and continuing professional development programmes. Among her research interests is the care of families of those receiving palliative care.
Raghu Raghavan is professor of mental health at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he is head of research at the Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. He has a background in health psychology and learning disability nursing. His research addresses several important issues in disability, mental health and wellbeing - improving access to services/ interventions, user involvement, practice and service development, cultural diversity and inclusion - and a major theme is the mental health needs of people with intellectual disabilities. He has published widely, including books, book chapters, peer reviewed journals and research reports.
Dr Sally Sargeant is a senior lecturer in behavioural sciences at Bond University in Queensland. She also holds an adjunct post in the research cluster for health improvement within the University of the Sunshine Coast, also in Queensland. Her research is in the fields of communication in healthcare, psycho-oncology and medical education. Sally is also interested in the health of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders and contributes to initiatives in medical curricula that incorporate indigenous health and wellbeing.
Dr Peter Spencer is a registered practitioner health psychologist. He gained a BSc at Aston University, during which time he spent a year working with patients who were suffering from brain damage following trauma. Following a PhD in psychology at the University of Wales (Bangor), he worked in rehabilitation. Currently he is associate principal lecturer in psychology at Leeds Trinity University. He has served as external examiner for the BSc psychology with counselling course at Hull University and MSc in disability at Huddersfield University and works with patients with chronic pain and fatigue.
Claire Surr is professor in dementia studies at Leeds Beckett University. She has worked in the field of dementia education and research for over fifteen years and has undertaken a wide range of research studies concerned with improving care for people living with dementia, both in the community and in formal care settings. She is an expert on the use of dementia care mapping in research, with a particular focus on care homes and acute hospital care. Claire was named a prestigious national teaching fellow by the Higher Education Academy in 2014 for her contribution to dementia studies education for the health and social care workforce.
Dr Vanessa Taylor is senior lecturer/academic lead for quality enhancement within the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester. With a clinical background in cancer and palliative care, she has research interests in the evaluation of cancer, palliative and end of life education, workforce development and service evaluation, including the challenges of delivering cancer and palliative care within non-specialist settings. Vanessa has led projects identifying the cancer-specific learning needs of the primary, community and palliative care workforce with the Macmillan Cancer Improvement Project and has developed end of life care outcomes for Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber.
Dr Gillian Tober is consultant psychologist and head of training and clinical service manager at the Leeds Addiction Unit, part of the Leeds and York Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, and associate senior lecturer at the University of Leeds. Her research, training and clinical practice are concentrated on the development, delivery and rating of protocol-led and manual-based cognitive behavioural and network treatments of substance misuse and dependence. She has also undertaken research on the nature and measurement of dependence and its treatment outcomes.
Dr Jane Toner is a consultant clinical psychologist and is head of therapy for Meadows Care, a company specializing in complex therapeutic care for children. She is also an honorary lecturer at Lancaster University on the clinical psychology programme and has a master's degree in CBT. Jane worked for ten years as a mental health nurse using CBT in primary care and with early psychosis.
Dr Alison Torn is senior lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, where she teaches social psychology and critical mental health on the undergraduate psychology degree programme. Before this she spent nine years working as a psychiatric nurse, followed by eight years at the universities of Leeds and Bradford as a qualitative researcher on a diverse number of health-related projects. Her PhD used a narrative analytic approach to explore first-person accounts...
