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Professor Kathleen Galvin is Professor of Nursing Practice. Her work has spanned phenomenology, philosophy, qualitative research, the arts and humanities in health, action research, multiple methods in service evaluation, public and patient involvement and perspectives, and issues in professional education.
As both a nurse and scholar Kathleen's theoretical work and current empirical research is grounded in a keen interest in philosophy and phenomenology. She aspires to contribute to fields concerned with how we can come to understand human experience in well-being and in vulnerability. Although this opens her to strong interdisciplinary influences, she is particularly interested in mining the breadth and depths of these explorations and research projects in order to bring back into nursing new insights for the meaning of care, relevant research methodologies, and epistemological frameworks that can enhance nursing practice, but also health and social care practice and education.
Her personal academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights and their import for the practice of caring. Her research work draws on humanities and the arts and she feels at home working in interdisciplinary contexts relevant to well-being, human experience and caring: In describing lived experiences and re-presenting them for the purposes of public and professional engagement empirically build upon a philosophically informed articulation of well-being and suffering. She aims to further develop ‘lifeworld led care’; further explore synergies and contributions to health related humanities and to practices in human services.
Kathleen wishes to continue to pursue all of these strands in order to further develop nursing theory, philosophy and research, with contributions to a distinctive development of person centred care: a framework for well-being, humanisation and suffering that can take account of a range of vulnerabilities in health and social care contexts.
Scholarly biography
Kathleen has published journal articles and book chapters that particularly focus on the values of services as experienced by people, new theoretical perspectives in caring and wellbeing, new methodology that draws on the arts - poetic inquiry and developments in qualitative research.
She is particularly interested in the application of methodologies which can help the public and professionals to engage in a more embodied way with qualitative research findings for the purposes deep insights with new understandings.
Her current research programme explores peoples’ experiences of a range of health issues, and using phenomenological-oriented philosophy develop novel theoretical framework for caring practices. This includes contributions to new theoretical perspectives on well-being, suffering and humanising approaches to human services. An important strand concerns the use of philosophy and the arts in developing insights that can lead practice. Outcomes include interdisciplinary projects and public engagement with science events and contributions to the ethics of care.
She is a graduate of the University of Ulster (BSc Nursing Studies and registered nurse) and while undertaking clinical nursing posts in older person care and acute vascular surgery completed a PhD in Nursing Studies at University of Manchester in 1997.
Before joining the University of Brighton, Kathleen held positions as Professor of Nursing Practice and Associate Dean Research, Enterprise and Scholarship at the University of Hull; Deputy Dean, Research and Enterprise, School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, and Professor of Health Research and Head of Research at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University following a post of Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Supervisory Interests
My supervisory interests include the meaning of wellbeing in varied contexts, the meaning of care and dignity, practice improvements, patient experiences, and older person perspectives. The major methodological approaches I supervise are qualitative, particularly phenomenology and philosophical directions. My PhD candidates include postgraduate researchers undertaking programmatic research in studentships, part time researchers also working in practice and candidates undertaking PhD by publication.
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Guild Care KTP: the social impact of adult social care interventions
Galvin, K. (CoI), Haines, D. (CoI), Gain, A. (CoI), Matthews, C. (CoI) & Fotis, T. (PI)
1/01/24 → 30/06/26
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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HC: Brighton and Hove Health Counts Survey 2024
Sherriff, N. (PI), Aicken, C. (CoPI), Sawyer, A. (CoI), Galvin, K. (CoI), Huber, J. (CoI), Llewellyn, C. (CoI) & Mirandola, M. (CoI)
Brighton and Hove City Council
3/01/23 → 30/06/24
Project: Public Sector
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EMPOWERCARE : Empowering individuals and communities to manage their own care
Fotis, T. (PI), Galvin, K. (CoI), Huber, J. (CoI) & Hodgson, L. (CoI)
1/01/20 → 30/09/22
Project: EU / International
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Collecting pieces for the ‘puzzle’: Nurses' intraprofessional collaboration in the hospital‐to‐home transition of older patients
Hansen, M. F., Martinsen, B., Galvin, K., Thomasen, B. P. & Norlyk, A., 22 May 2024, In: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 38, 3, p. 792-801 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Discharging older patients from hospital to homecare: conflicts in collaborative practices among nurses across sectors
Hansen, M. F., Martinsen, B., Galvin, K. & Norlyk, A., 2 Jul 2024, In: British Journal of Community Nursing. 29, 7, p. 326-334 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Engaging with older people about digital technologies through nongovernmental organizations: A scoping review
Bhattacharjee, S., Kebede, A., Raja, M., Sandic-Spaho, R., Gåre Kymre, I., Galvin, K. & Uhrenfeldt, L., 7 Sept 2024, In: Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen. 189, p. 4-14 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health
Poltrum, M., Saito, Y., Musalek, M., Galvin, K. & Fox, H., 20 Jun 2024, The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics. Poltrum, M., Musalek, M., Galvin, K. & Saito, Y. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Oxford Library of Psychology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review
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Community-dwelling frail older people’s views of frailty and frailty services: a qualitative study (oral presentation)
Aicken, C., Kerin, Ú., Harrison Dening, K., Brooks, S., Muir, N., De Vries, K., Cowdell, F. & Galvin, K. T., 24 Mar 2023, (Accepted/In press).Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Activities
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University of Southern Denmark
Galvin, K. (Visiting researcher)
5 Jan 2024Activity: Visiting position › Visiting an external academic institution
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RISE project with local Community Interest Company My Care Matters
Aicken, C. (Consultant), Hodgson, L. (Consultant) & Galvin, K. (Advisor)
Mar 2023 → May 2023Activity: Consultancy
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4th International NCCS/EACS Conference
Bhattacharjee, S. (Presenter), Kebede, A. (Presenter) & Galvin, K. (Presenter)
26 Apr 2022 → 28 Apr 2022Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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University of Hull
Galvin, K. (Visiting professor)
Sept 2018Activity: Visiting position › Visiting an external academic institution
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Routledge (Publisher)
Galvin, K. (Reviewer)
May 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review