People within Centre for Caring for People with Complex Needs
People involved in our research.
Centre members
Professor Owen Barr
Professor of Nursing and Intellectual Disabilities
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Access to general healthcare for people with learning disabilities
- Death and dying for people with learning disabilities
- Person centred residential care for people with learning disabilities
Dr Esther Ruth Beck
Lecturer in Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Palliative care
- Advance care planning
- Long-term care
Dr Pauline Black
Lecturer
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Critical illness - care and recovery
- Nurse education – recruitment, selection, and curriculum design
Professor Vivien Coates
Florence Nightingale Foundation Professor of Clinical Nursing Practice Research
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Self-management of diabetes
- Avoiding unscheduled hospital admission in diabetes
- Long-term condition lifestyle risk factors
Professor Neal Cook
Associate Head of School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Nurse education
- Neuroscience Nursing
- Person-centredness
Professor Carol Curran
Executive Dean
Dean's Office (Life & Health Scs)
Areas of expertise
- Continence
Dr Jackie Gracey
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Physiotherapy interventions. Rehabilitation. Fatigue management in cancer care
Dr Felicity Hasson
Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Workforce
- Community palliative care
- Public health and palliative care
Professor Suzanne Martin
Professor of Occupational Therapy
School of Health Sciences
Areas of expertise
- New and emerging technologies in health and social care
- Technology enabled housing for people with cognitive impairment (Head injury, dementia and learning disability)
- Cochrane systematic literature reviews
Dr Toni McAloon
Lecturer in Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Improving the clinical management of adult overweight & obesity
- Clinical communication
Professor Tanya McCance
The Mona Grey Professor of Nursing Research & Development
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Person-centred practice
Dr Claire McCauley
Lecturer in Health Sciences
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Mental health and wellbeing in vulnerable populations across the life span
- Mental health recovery
- Reminiscence and dementia care
Dr Donna McConnell
Lecturer in Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Person-centredness in Emergency Departments
Dr Helen McGarvey
Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Person centred care
- Perioperative Nursing
- Nursing Education in Practice
Professor Sonja McIlfatrick
Head of School and Professor of Nursing and Palliative Care
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Public health and palliative care
- Psychosocial support for patients and family carers across different illnesses
- Addressing palliative care needs
Professor Hugh McKenna
Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Mental Health research
- Research methodologies
Dr Vidar Melby
Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Emergency nursing
- Person-centred care
- Vulnerable people
Dr Kevin Moore
Lecturer in Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Older people and mental health
- Using virtual reality training programmes in dementia to improve empathy in carers
- Using art as a medium for exploring younger peoples’ interpretations and experiences of mental health
Dr Anne Moorhead
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Media
Areas of expertise
- Communication technologies in Healthcare
- Communication in mental health and obesity
- E-help-seeking and behaviour change
Professor Assumpta Ryan
Professor of Ageing and Health
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Family caregiving,
- Technology facilitated reminiscence in dementia
- Quality of life in care homes.
Dr Cherith Semple
Reader in Clinical Nursing
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Promoting quality of life for patients with head and neck cancer
- Impact of parental cancer for families
Dr Paul Slater
Senior Lecturer in Statistics
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Research methods and quantitative analysis
- Instrument development and psychometrics
- Person-centred practice
Dr Laurence Taggart
Professor
School of Nursing
Areas of expertise
- Health of people with intellectual disabilities
- Development and testing of interventions for people with intellectual disabilities and knowledge translation
Dr Jill Titterington
Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy (Paediatrics)
School of Health Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Development and implementation of evidence-based practice for Speech and Language Therapists to improve outcomes for children with severe speech sound disorder.
- Development and trialling of complex interventions within complex systems to improve outcomes for children with speech, language and communication needs.
- Using the principles of realist research to best drive system-wide change to effectively impact on the lives of children with speech, language and communication needs.