Research team

The Faculty has a dedicated research team:

  • Professor Julie Jomeen – Associate Dean Research and Scholarship, Professor of Midwifery
  • Professor Roger Watson - Professor of Nursing 
  • Ms Jane Wray – Senior Research Fellow
  • Ms Jo Aspland – Research Assistant
  • Dr Fiona Cowdell– Graduate Research Director

Research fellowship holders

Research administration

Mrs Jeanette Gilchrist 
Email: J.L.Gilchrist@hull.ac.uk


Research interests of staff across the Faculty of Health and Social Care are:

Name  Research interests
Jo Aspland
  • Early screening of nursing students for dyslexia
David Barrett
  • Telehealth and telecare
  • Nurse education 
  • Clinical skills 
Fiona Cowdell
  • Skin health
  • Older people
  • Self-management and wellbeing
Peter Draper
  • The arts in nursing education
  • Spirituality in health 
  • Nursing older people
  • Dignity in healthcare
Steve Ersser
  • Skin health and skin integrity with a focus on alleviating skin vulnerability and promoting wellbeing and quality life of those living with chronic skin conditions;
Barbara Elliott
  • Children with chronic illness
  • Children’s physical activity levels and opportunities
  • Naso-gastric tubes
  • Children with cancer
  • Inter-professional services for children, young people and families
Anji Gardiner
  • Gastro & endoscopy main theme
  • Functional bowel disorders
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  • Education and endoscopy
  • Practitioners in the NHS
  • Transferable skill acquisition and e-learning
  • E-learning general
Andrea Hilton
  • Care of the elderly (including dementia)
  • Pharmaceutical care
  • Pharmacy involvement in patient care
  • Non-medical prescribing and medicine management with respect to pharmacy
Lesley Hughes
  • Interprofessional education
  • Interprofessional practice
  • Children with emotional and behavioural difficulties
  • Psychology of partnership working  
  • Psychological interventions to support wellbeing
Julie Jomeen
  • Maternity and psychology
  • Policy and its impact on practice
  • Methodology
Catriona Jones
  • Stress experiences of student midwives
  • Complementary and alternative medicines/therapies in contemporary maternity care
Yvonne Needham
  • Ophthalmic nursing
  • Visual impairment
  • Nursing development
Pat Pearcey
  • Using research/evidence in practice
  • Roles/skill mix in acute hospital settings
  • Student nurses’ experiences of clinical nursing
  • Values-based healthcare
Julie Santy-Tomlinson
  • Wound care
  • Orthopaedics and trauma
  • Older people
  • E-learning
Susan Tame
  • Perioperative nurses' experiences and perceptions of continuing professional development
Jacquie White
  • Medicines management
  • Practice change at a population level
  • Benefits of networks
Clare Whitfield
  • Teenage pregnancy
  • Health and social care service experiences of older people
  • Empowerment of health service users within state provision
  • Managing health outcomes through policy
  • Professionalism and professional conduct
Jane Wray
  • Professional education and fitness to practice of disabled students and practitioners in nursing, social work and teaching
  • Inclusive approaches to teaching and learning in HE
  • Equality and diversity issues in the workplace
  • Health inequalities and excluded groups
Jackie Wright
  • Efficacy of safeguarding children training
  • Expectations and experiences of pre-registration child branch nursing students  

Contact

Professor Julie Jomeen

Associate Dean Research and Scholarship

Email: j.jomeen@hull.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1482 464618