University of East Anglia

Faculty Member, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Professor of Research and Academic Director of Research Degree Programmes

About

I have been the Professor of Research and Director of Research Degree Programmes at the University of East Anglia in Norwich since 2008. I am also an Honorary Consultant with Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust, Adjunct Professor of Mental Health at NUI Galway, Ireland, visiting Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia. I trained at King’s College as a Mental Health Nurse and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Public Health. I was awarded my PhD in 2001 from King’s College London and in the same year I was awarded a prestigious MRC research training fellowship. Until 2008 I was Head of the Section of Mental Health Nursing at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. I am a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science

I lead a multidisciplinary research group with programmes of work in treatment adherence, co-morbid depression in long term conditions, physical health problems in severe mental illness, nurse prescribing, pain management, protected engagement time, giving cancer diagnosis, violence and agression and mental health in older adults. I have published some interesting papers but most of them are dull and some starkly contradict each other! My current h-index is 18, ten years after my PhD. One of my papers has been cited over 100 times and five over twenty five.

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