Future work
Michele Abendstern
- Papers relating to different forms of assessment for health and social care services.
- Papers relating to implications of variations in practices of community mental health teams for older people.
Janette Allotey
- Paper in Press.
- Book chapter and paper under review.
- More papers related to contents of my thesis to be published.
Helen Barnes
- Paper on personalisation, wellbeing and active welfare policies and evidence-based alternatives within the wider ‘social determinants of health’ context.
- Paper on the concept of vulnerability, drawing implications for social work with health inequalities.
- Paper on mental illness and social and recovery models in service users’ lived experiences – implications for higher education in mental health.
- Revised book contract with Palgrave for a textbook on social work and mental health within the wider health and social care context.
- Chapter on mental health practice in edited book entitled Social Work’s Knowledge Base.
Jane Brooks
- Paper on history of nursing work with older people.
- Papers and monograph on the history of nursing in the Second World War.
- Edited book on wartime nursing work with Christine Hallett.
Hannah Cooke
- Book chapter on blame and responsibility in organisations.
- Collaborative papers on fitness for practice cases with Michael Traynor and colleagues.
- Book on professional self-regulation in nursing and midwifery, to be jointly-authored with Christine Hallett and Ann Thomson.
- Planned future work is planned on whistleblowing, conscientious objection at work.
Lorraine
Green
- A study of how social workers understand embodiment and human emotions.
- An analysis of social workers’ understanding and behaviour in relation to child abuse in the context of recent tragedies and scandals.
Christine
Hallett
- Monograph on First World War nursing: ‘Healers, Heroines and Harpies: Literary Nurses of the First World War’.
- Edited book on First World War nurses: ‘Angels and adventuresses: the image and experience of the First World War nurse’.
- Book on professional self-regulation in nursing and midwifery, to be jointly-authored with Hannah Cooke and Ann Thomson.
- Planned project on the History of the Bachelor of Nursing degree at the University of Manchester.
Val Harrington
- Publications related to previous work on the post-war history of mental health services in Manchester and Salford.
- Monograph and scholarly papers on the history of irritable bowel syndrome.
Aya Homei
- Monograph on the history of Japanese midwives, 1868 to c.1930.
- A study of Japanese public health nurses c.1950s-1970s.
- Publications relating to previous work on the history of radiation sickness in Japan.
John Hopton
- The mental health benefits associated with the use of urban parks.
- The balance between risks of brain damage and the mental health benefits of participation in combat sports.
Collaborations
The team has collaborative relationships with:
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, University of Manchester (Brooks, Hallett, Homei).
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (Homei).
International Gender and Child Welfare Network and
Research Group (Green).
A series of dialogues in Openmind magazine with
Professor Peter Beresford of Brunel University (Hopton).
Birkbeck College, University of London (Hallett).
University of Pennsylvania, USA (Hallett).
University of Virginia, USA (Hallett).
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (Hallett).
University of Central Queensland, Australia (Hallett).
University of Tromso, Norway (Hallett).
Middlesex University (Cooke).
De Partu, History of Childbirth Research Group (Allotey,
Hallett, Homei).
The team works closely with the UK Centre for the History of Nursing
and Midwifery, which has a network of affiliate members in the UK and a number of
global connections.
Areas for particular focus
in 2010-2015
The History of Health and Social Care Research Team of the School of
Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work has a number of areas of particular strength.
These will be built-upon in the next five-year period:
History of Nursing
Practice
The team has published ground-breaking work and is currently offering
PhD supervision in this field (Justham and Tesseyman, both for completion by
2013). Further publications are under review. It is anticipated that we will
continue to develop this area of expertise.
The History of Nursing in
Wartime
This is a remarkable area of strength for the group. The following
projects are already in progress:
Christine Hallett’s work on the First World
War (one scholarly monograph published and research for a further two in
progress. Papers planned.)
Jane Brooks’ work on nursing during
the Second World War (one scholarly monograph in progress. Papers planned.)
Charlotte Dale (PhD
student) is working on nursing during the Boer War, and will complete by 2013.
Isabel Anton-Solanas successfully
completed her work on nursing during the Spanish Civil War in 2010.
Gender, Identity and the
Life Course
This is an emerging area of strength due to the output and project
development work of Lorraine Green.
Contemporary History of
Policy and Professional Discourses in Health and Social Care
Hannah Cooke has produced papers on the impact of new public management on
professional regulation and discipline and professional standards. She has also
published theoretical analyses of contemporary policy concepts including audit
culture, risk, safety and empowerment .
