Membership
Membership
Professor Gemma Stacey
Director of Academy, Florence Nightingale Foundation
gemma@florence-nightingale-foundation.org.uk
Professor Gemma Stacey is a Mental Health Nurse and, prior to joining the Florence Nightingale Foundation, was employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Her research and practice is underpinned by a critical consideration of the organisational, relational and professional factors which influence the expression of values in healthcare practice. She is committed to the premise of education as a vehicle to promote the emancipatory practice and has developed a program of externally funded applied healthcare research focused on approaches which enable transformational learning and psychological safety for staff.
As Director of Public Engagement, she offered strategic leadership in this area at an executive level and motivated diverse teams to implement significant programmes of work aimed at enriching and animating the work of the University to improve its accountability, relevance and responsiveness to wider society. Her commitment to creating relationships with a vast range of partners in diverse sectors has resulted in co-designed knowledge exchange, research and educational innovation which has impacted on curriculum, policy, professional regulatory guidelines for nursing at a national and international level. Her credibility and influence is externally benchmarked by her accreditation as a Principle Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Visiting Professor at the University of Derby.
She is currently Director of the newly formed Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy where she is leading a strategy to establish the Academy as an independent ‘go to’ service for leadership development opportunities, identifying and exploiting evidence, and the provision of expert, well informed opinion and advice on issues that impact on patient care and experience.
Dr Anne Felton
Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
As the practical minded member of the group I am well practiced in grounding discussions and capturing lively debate. The network enables me to further my research, education and practice interests in critical perspectives on the impact of risk in mental health practice. I drive the direction of the network towards an explicit focus on enhancing the presence of service users in decision making.
Dr Phil Houghton
Clinical Psychologist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
philip.houghton@nottshc.nhs.uk
As a clinician working within the NHS with adults with mental health difficulties my hope is to bring knowledge and experience of day to day clinical practice to discussions within the group and always think about how theory and research will relate to the clinical setting. I have a particular interest in the impact of power on individuals and systems, both within and outside of the mental health system. I also hope to bring a questioning approach to the dominant models which currently influence mental healthcare.
Philippa Clark
Community Mental Health Nurse, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
I graduated in 2015 with a masters in Nursing (mental health). For my dissertation I completed a critical review of the shared decision making literature, discussing the facilitators and barriers of share decision making being implemented into mental health care practice. I am currently employed in a secure mental health service, which I hope will bring an understanding of values based practice in secure settings as well as service user involvement in a care provision which can be more restrictive than other inpatient settings due to the nature of the risks involved with the clientèle. I also hope that my involvement with the research group will increase the evidence-based practice.
Dr Alastair Morgan
Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
My interests lie in critical theory and implementing changes to mental health practice in order to make it more inclusive and humane. I am interested in the approach of values-based practice and particularly in uniting an emphasis on working with conflicting values alongside a critique of power. My focus is mainly on providing and finding innovative ways of teaching practitioners how to work creatively and inclusively with values in conflict, alongside approaches such as co-production and shared decision-making.
James Shutt
My Rights
Coming from an advocacy and voluntary sector perspective, I am interested in the lived experience of people with mental disabilities, particularly regarding the relationship between individual, services, society and state, as well as the voluntary sector’s role in delivering improved outcomes for people with mental disabilities. Interest in issues such as involuntary detention and treatment, health equity, social determinants of illness, social equality, and de-institutionalisation are framed by my broader interests in public policy, social care law, philosophy and related themes of liberty, human rights, mental capacity, decision-making and autonomy.
In terms of the C-VBP-Network, my main interests lie in questions around the possibility of value-sharing between patients, families and professionals in situations traditionally characterised by power imbalance. Overall, I am interested in furthering the ambition and reach of patient and service user led initiatives, co-production in services and participatory approaches to research leading to real changes in health and social care practice.
Jonathan Wright
Involvement & Experience Lead, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
jonathan.wright@nottshc.nhs.uk
I work within Involvement & Experience in the NHS, often referred to as Patient & Public Involvement (PPI). I have a particular interest in service change; how do we find the bright ideas, how would that idea work and what might be the barriers to change?
Co-Production is very open to interpretation but my work has mainly been in this area ensuring service users and carers have a voice within decision making across the NHS. I have become more interested recently in collaboration and how we can best facilitate this way of working, especially in the context the NHS finds itself in.
In terms of the C-VBP-Network I believe I have a very practical role in ensuring the processes and projects that we are involved in are collaborative and are led by value-sharing between all parties.
Kirsten Morley
Assistant Professor in Social Work, University of Nottingham
kirsten.morley@nottingham.ac.uk
As a social work educator and practising Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) I bring a social care perspective to the group, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration. With a background in mental health and learning disabilities, I have a keen interest in values-based practice and social approaches to mental distress. Tensions between human rights, self-advocacy, professional integrity and the use of compulsion under the Mental Health Act 1983 are also areas of interest, as is the relationship between the state, social work and social justice.
I’m proud to be working with this C-VBP-Network in challenging power structures which constrain ethical practice and collaborating with those who have lived experience of mental distress to seek positive change.
Amy Johnston
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Queensland
Dr Amy Johnston currently holds a conjoint senior research fellow/senior lecturer position between Metro South Hospital & Health Service, Department of Emergency Medicine (based at Princess Alexandra hospital) and School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work. Her teaching role is centred on the Masters of Nursing studies (for registration). For the past 4 years she worked across the academic and healthcare environments to conduct her own research as well as supporting clinicians to develop the skills and confidence to participate in, and conduct research projects relevant to their clinical work. Amy is a neurobiologist and nurse with extensive teaching and research experience and a particular interest in Emergency Department service delivery and patient flow. She also has an enduring interest in the scholarship of clinical learning and teaching, particularly focused on the biosciences. She has been contributing to nursing bioscience teaching for more than 25 years (since the inception of nursing degree programs in Australia). Her wide experience has helped her develop a broadening national and international profile. She has co-authored in excess of 70 publications, 100 abstracts, between awarded approximately $0.6million in grant funding, and supported 3 PhD candidates to completion with another 4 currently working towards their PhD qualifications. Her H-index is 17 (Scopus), google scholar is 21, with i10 index of 27.
Researcher ID B-2931-2010