PhD Student Profile

Project title

‘A Realist Evaluation of the impact on workplace teamwork and culture of the learning and development strategies in a Clinical Leadership Programme’.

Profile summary

Helen Stanley was until recently the Academic Lead for Nursing in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton and reached a turning point in her career to complete her PhD. She has extensive clinical and academic leadership experience and has designed a number of successful research and practice-development projects to support leadership development for workforce development, service reconfigurations and international developments. Her previous research has focused on the evaluation and impact of continuing and professional education, work-based learning, advanced practice and interprofessional learning.

Helen is passionate about the development of excellent compassionate and caring nursing standards and professional credibility through active engagement with professional and educational developments at a national/international level. She enjoys working collaboratively with clinicians and students and has been involved in community engagement projects and widening participation in higher education. She has an interest in the development of creative writing skills and their role in practice development and has published a number of her short stories.

Research and knoweldge exchange

• International Fellow, England Centre for Practice Development, CCCU
• Community of Practice for PhD by Publication Students, CCCU
• Practice Development Research Hub, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, CCCU
• Leadership Evaluation Colloboratory, Thames Valley, Wessex, and South West NHS Leadership Academy   

Teaching and subject expertise

• Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• University of Brighton Award for Excellence in Facilitating and Empowering Learning July 2017
• Teaching clinical leadership to postgraduate students.
• Masters in Advanced Practice dissertation supervision on the regulation of advanced nursing practice. 

Research Outputs

Publications:

Morfoot, C and H. Stanley. 2018. Simulation-based education for neonatal skills training and its impact on self-efficacy in post-registration nurses: a literature review. Infant (in press March 2018).

Whiffin, S. L. King, M. Stewart, P. Deamer, P. Saintas, and H. Stanley. 2015. Evaluation of Tablet personal computers as a digital technology. Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) Publication, University of Brighton.

Creative writing publications following engagement in the University of Brighton’s ‘Work, Write, Live’ Introduction and Advanced creative writing courses:

Stanley, H. 2015. ‘The Other Woman’. Brighton Journal of Research in Health Sciences. 2(1). http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/bjrhs/2015/05/01/the-other-woman/

Stanley, H. 2015. ’The Lost Boys of Plymouth Hoe’ and ‘The Office’. Reflections: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. University of Brighton Literature Society.

Willmer, M, Stanley H. and C. Cheales. 2014. ‘The Apprentice- you’re hired!’ Evaluation of teaching leadership and management skills using iPads. ’Evolving Experiences’, University of Brighton CLT Conference Publication.

Stanley, H., S. Franzen, M. Bloom, C. Betsworth, D. Goddard and L. Murray. 2013. ‘Health and Wellbeing Workshop for the community - an evaluation of the 'On Our Doorsteps' Project’.’Connectivity linking the learning community’ CLT publication: University of Brighton.

Stanley, H. 2013 ‘Health and community learning: The Bridge Community Education Centre’, case study in ‘Learning to make a difference: the University of Brighton and its local communities’. University of Brighton Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) publication celebrating 10 years of CUPP.

Stanley, H.F. and Simmons, S. 2011. Neonatal nurses’ experiences of undertaking a Continuing Professional Development Module using a Work-based Learning approach. Nursing Children and Young People. 23(7):20-25.

Stanley, H. and C. Ramage. 2004. Chapter 12. Reflective Practice in Teacher Preparation. Occasional Paper No.4. The Development of Critical Reflection in the Health Professions. LTSN, Higher Education Academy, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre, London.

Stanley, H. 2003. The journey to becoming a graduate nurse: a study of the lived experience of part-time post-registration students. Nurse Education in Practice 6: 62-71.

Conference participation:

Stanley, H. 2018.When did Leadership become Clinical? A Concept Analysis of Clinical Leadership. RCN International Research Conference paper accepted for April 2018, Birmingham.

Stanley, H. 2017. Concept analysis: a tool to develop doctoral thinking in a Realist Evaluation of a Clinical Leadership Programme, presentation at the ‘Health Education Conference’, Brighton and Sussex Universities Medical School, University of Sussex.

Stanley, H. 2017. Realist evaluation and mixed methods, Leadership Doctoral Students Masterclass. British Academy of Management, Westminster, London.

Stanley, H. 2017.Concept analysis: a tool to develop doctoral thinking in a Realist Evaluation of a Clinical Leadership Programme, presentation at the ‘Developing Leadership Development Capacity’ International conference, Brighton Business School, University of Brighton.

Stanley, H. 2017. Concept analysis: a tool to develop doctoral thinking in a Realist Evaluation Clinical Leadership Programme, presentation at the Centre for Health Research ‘Celebrating Research’ Conference, University of Brighton.

Stanley, H. 2017.Keynote: My Path to Nursing, Inaugural Nursing Careers Conference, School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton.

Stanley, H and C. Watson. 2016. New beginnings – An Interprofessional Approach to the Preparation of Advanced Nurse Practitioners’ presentation at the RCN International Education Forum Conference, Telford.

Stanley, H and C. Watson.  ‘New beginnings – An Interprofessional Approach to the Preparation for Advanced Practice’ presentation at theHealth Education Conference, Brighton and Sussex Universities Medical School, University of Sussex.

Stanley, H. 2015.1.’ New beginnings – An Interprofessional Approach to the Preparation for Advanced Practice’. 2. Joint paper with Louise Goodall, (masters’ dissertation student) ‘Interprofessional Simulation and the Factors Affecting Implementation’, presentation at the Preparing Students for Safe, Effective and Person-Centred Practice, National Association of Practice-based Educators Conference Coventry University.

Stanley, H. 2015. . ‘An Interprofessional Approach to the Preparation of Nurses for Advanced Practice- the UK Perspective’. American Association of Colleges of Nursing Masters Education Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. 

Other external activities

Royal College of Nursing, Associate Consultant, Nursing Careers Framework Project

Royal College of Nursing Education Forum Steering Committee and Scientific Committee member