External facing work

PhD examiner appointments

Sarah Knight.  Being heard in the counselling relationship: an investigation into the experience of hard of hearing clients.  PschyD Counslling Psychology.  External examiner. Roehampton University. July 2011.  Awarded.


Barbara Richards. Suicide impact & professional responses. External examiner. University of Reading.  July 2011. Awarded.


Debbie Dixon.   Higher education in China – graduate experience.  Internal examiner, UoN, School of Education.  May 2011. Referred.


Anne Aiyibusi.  Approaches to nursing personality disorder in high secure settings.  External examiner. University of Middlesex, School of Nursing.  Supervisors: Professor Daniel Kelly, Vicky Franks & Janet Holmshaw.  April 28 2011.  Awarded.   


Christopher Middleton.  Caring, control & compliance: nursing’s struggle to be audible [D of Health Sc].  Supervisor: Professor Mark Avis. Internal examiner, UoN, School of Nursing & Midwifery.  March 2011.  Referred.    


Susan Melling. Transition, an examination of study nurse experience in their first practice placement.  Internal examiner, UoN, School of Education.  Supervisor: Professor Simon Mcgrath.  January 2011.  Awarded.


Helen Mackenzie. HE Students experience of Academic Play.  Internal examiner, UoN.  Supervisors: Dr Monica Maclean & Professor Roger Murphy. January 2011.  Awarded.


William Whitehead. Implementing clinical mentorship in adult nursing [Ed D].  Internal examiner, UoN.  Supervisor: Professor John Wallis.  November 2010.  Awarded.


Maureen Sears, Title: Women who have set fires: learning for change.  External examiner PhD.  University of Surrey. Supervisor: Professor John Holford. September 2008.  Awarded.


(2011-present) External examiner.  Fd Sc Counselling.  University of Worcestershire.  


(2010-2011) Editorial board member Jubilee Press. Corral the best and most innovative mental health field work from the counselling psychotherapy programmes at the University of Nottingham, especially at dissertation and PhD level.  Focus on mental health, counselling and psychotherapy, schools (NICE, DoH, prison reform, enabling environments including schools mental health, nursing, health humanities etc)        


(2006-present) Editor of Research in Brief section in: Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing JPMHN has an impact factor of 1.082


(2006-present) Appointments panel chair: Annual Skellern Lecture & Wiley-Blackwell JPMHN Lifetime Achievement Award.  Julie Repper (2006), Catherine Gamble (2007) Len Bowers (2008), Neil Brimblecombe (2009), Patrick Callaghan (2010).  Lifetime achievement award: Phil Barker (2006), Jo Brand (2007), Bryn Davis (2008), Helen Bamber (2009), Peter Nolan (2010).  The Skellern Lecture is the leading accolade for a MHN.  The appointments faculty is made up of previous Skellern lecturers and Lifetime achievement award recipients, event sponsors.  Nominations are received and the appointments committee vote on the short list.  


(2005-present) Web resources: www,winship,info receiving an average of 20,000 hits per month & over 1.5 million hits in total since 2005.


(1998-present) Editorial Board Member: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care (US based mental health journal)


(1997-present) International Advisor: Therapeutic Communities.


(2010) Peer reviewer: The Health Technology Assessment programme, part of the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre at the University of Southampton.  


(2010) External adviser (critical friend) for a Diploma/MA in working with Personality Disorders. Neumann University, Birmingham.


(2010) Seminar chair, Institute Mental Health.  March 10. Session Mental Health in Schools.  Speaker Kapil Sayal.


(2005-2009) External examiner. MA Psychosocial Nursing, Cassel Hospital/University of East London  


(2009) Consultant facilitator: Nottingham City IAPT services.  Team away day facilitator December 16th.  


(2009) IAPT service staff: study morning seminar, Brooke House: Developing group interventions. May 24th.


(2008) Strategy & team building day for IAPT services in Nottingham. 25th November.   


(2007) Publishers report JPMHN: 3rd most downloaded MHN paper 2007 Blackwell’s synergy: (2006) Further thoughts on the process of restraint.  Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 13: 55–60.  This paper also cited by Amnesty International in a guidance document for human rights (AI Index: ACT 84/004/2006. Summary, AI reports & statements, Death Penalty, HIV/AIDS, Prisoners, Right to health, Torture, Awards, Publications (2006) AI Bulletin Vol. 9 No. 4, 17).


(2007) 11th Annual Maxwell Jones Lecture respondent: to Anne Aiyegbusi. Royal Society of Medicine, London. Sept 7th.


(2001-2007) Association of Therapeutic Communities [ATC] – Treasurer, responsible for all ATC accounts including, research, journal and conference accounts (over £0.5 million through the accounts during time in office).  The ATC is an umbrella organisation that representing over 60 TC across the UK in collaboration with the Royal College of Psychiatrists quality service network for TCs


(2000-2004) Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UPCA): Affiliate representative (Oxford Brookes & Reading University).  Founding member of the MSc in Psychotherapy (Oxford Brookes).  


(2002-2003) Focus group facilitator Department of Health project examining treatment for Personality Disorder.  Policy document: Personality Disorder: No Longer a Diagnosis of Exclusion.   


(1988-present) Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy [APP] – full member.  Co-opted APP council member between 1994-1997, conference administrator 1998 and research committee member 1998-2003. between 192-1998: chaired a monthly forum of seminars at the Tavistock in London. Organised two international conferences 1996 & 1997: Suzy Lego (US), Phil Barker (UK), Martin Teising (Germany), Harry Wright (UK)).  


(1996-present) ISPS Member - International Society of the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia & other Psychoses.


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