ESRC grant award to Dr Rachel Anderson

Rachel Anderson has been awarded an ESRC Grant for £619k over three years, titled:

Using Positive Simulation Training to improve predictions about the future in depression

Roselyn Masamha, Lecturer in Learning Disabilities Nursing has contributed two chapters to Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning released by Routledge last week as the latest Teaching with Gender book series, coordinated by the feminist network ATGENDER  (The European Association of Gender Research, Education and Documentation): 

Chapter 7: THE LIABILITY OF FOREIGNNESS : Decolonial struggles of migrants negotiating African identity within UK nurse education.

Chapter 13 : Post-it notes to my lecturers

James Patrick Smith OBE FRCN 4 May 1934 to 15 June 2018

Roger Watson has published an obituary of Dr James Patrick Smith OBE DLitt (Hull) FRCN, Founding Editor of Journal of Advanced Nursing

Psoriasis Association award for colleagues in psychology

Dr Henning Holle - in collaboration with Dr David George, University of Hull and Dr Elise Kleyn, University of Manchester - 
has been awarded £85500 by the Psoriasis Association for a PhD studentship to study: 'An attentional bias approach to understanding and reducing the psychosocial burden of psoriasis'.

The Birth Satisfaction Scale - Revised (BSS-R): should the subscale scores or the total score be used?

Colin Martin has co-authored:

Martin CR, Hollins Martin CJ, Burduli E, Barbosa-Leiker C, Donovan-Batson C, Fleming SE (2018) The Birth Satisfaction Scale - Revised (BSS-R): should the subscale scores or the total score be used? Journal Reproductive and Infant Psychology doi: 10.1080/02646838.2018.1490498

Prestigious NIHR award

Claire Marshall who is a specialist nurse in the perinatal mental health team in Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has just been successful in getting an NIHR pre-doc fellowship, supported by Julie Jomeen and Colin Martin as supervisors and Tom Phillips as clinical academic mentor. This is very prestigious and we are delighted. 

What are the minimal sample size requirements for Mokken scaling? An empirical example with the Warwick- Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale

New open access publication co-authored by Roger Watson:

Watson R, Egberink IJL, Kirke L, Tendeiro J, Doyle F (2018) What are the minimal sample size requirements for Mokken scaling?  An empirical example with the Warwick- Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine 6: 203-213