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Surviving by storytelling – a research through design exploration of online poetry and mental health workshops (2024)
Journal Article

Background The paper explores an online poetry and mental health project titled ‘Surviving by Storytelling’. The paper reflects on the knowledge which has been iteratively generated during the project and considers the unique challenges to deliverin... Read More about Surviving by storytelling – a research through design exploration of online poetry and mental health workshops.

“It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co‐produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education (2024)
Journal Article

The education of mental health nurses has long remained a contentious topic in the UK and internationally. This research seeks to gather the perspectives of those directly affected by mental health nurse education. To investigate what knowledge, skil... Read More about “It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co‐produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education.

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis (2023)
Journal Article

The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced. Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impa... Read More about The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis.

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis – A Kuhnian analysis (2023)
Journal Article

The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced. Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impa... Read More about The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis – A Kuhnian analysis.

Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity. As new data are emerging to help inform treatment guidelines, the perspectives of... Read More about Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives.

The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Despite growing evidence demonstrating the psychotherapeutic potential of reading and writing poetry for various mental health problems, there remains limited evidence in relation to psychosis. This paper explores the therapeutic potentia... Read More about The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis.

Pharmacology training in mental health nurse education: justification for an increase in frequency and depth in the UK (2017)
Journal Article

This article explores the role and importance of Pharmacology within mental health nurse education. The article proposes that a lack of pharmacology content within undergraduate mental health nurse education may not fully prepare nurses for their... Read More about Pharmacology training in mental health nurse education: justification for an increase in frequency and depth in the UK.