Professor Mike Nolan
Professor of Gerontological Nursing
Address
Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing
Community Sciences Centre
Northern General Hospital
Herries Road
Sheffield
S5 7AU
Tel: +44 (0)114 226 6851
Secretary Tel: +44 (0)114 226 6849
Fax: +44 (0)114 271 5915
Email: m.r.nolan@sheffield.ac.uk
Research Interests
Mike trained as a teacher before joining the nursing profession in the 1970´s. After gaining qualifications in general and psychiatric nursing Mike has worked with older people and their family carers in a variety of clinical, educational and research roles for over 25 years. He was appointed as the first Professor of Gerontological Nursing in the UK in 1995, a position he has held since. He holds Visiting Chairs at the University College of Health Sciences, Borås, West Sweden and Glasgow Caledonian University.
Mike has particular research interests in the needs of frail older people and their family carers in both community and residential environments, and how family and formal carers can work together more effectively. Together with colleagues, he has developed a range of carer assessment tools that have been translated into over 20 languages and are in widespread use in both clinical and research settings.
Recently Mike´s work has focussed on developing concepts of relationship-centred care and their application to enrich the experience of giving and receiving care by using the 'Senses' Framework. Methodologically Mike has focussed on the promotion of participatory approaches to research that engage older people, carers and professionals as partners in the research process. Mike has well established research links in Sweden, Australia and Canada.
Activities and Distinctions
- Mike has over 300 publications and a similar number of conference presentations, with 60+ as invited keynote/plenary speaker.
- Served on numerous national research and development committees, including the former English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, the Alzheimer’s Society Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee and the Stoke Association Research and Development Committee.
- Member of the Nursing Panel in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises.
- Editor (Older People) Internal Journal of Nursing Studies and sits on 8 other Editorial Boards.
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Representative Publications
Books and Monographs
Nolan, M R, Hanson, E, Grant, G and Keady, J (Eds) (2007) User Participation in Health and Social Care Research: Voices, Values and Evaluation. Open University Press.
Nolan, M R, Brown, J, Davies, S, Nolan, J and Keady, J (2006) The Senses Framework: Improving Care for Older People Through a Relationship-Centred Approach. Getting Research into Practice (GRiP) Report No 2, University of Sheffield.
Hanson, E, Nolan, J, Magnusson, L, Sennemark, E, Johansson, L and Nolan, M R (2006) COAT: The Carers Outcome Agreement Tool: A new approach to working with family carers. Getting Research into Practice (GRiP) Report No 1, University of Sheffield.
Peer Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals
Nolan, M, Davies, S, Brown, J, Wilkinson, A, Warnes, A, McKee, K, Flannery, J and Stasi, K (2008) The role of education and training in achieving change in care homes: a literature review. Journal of Research in Nursing, 13(5): 411-433.
Brown, J, Nolan, M, Davies, S, Nolan, J and Keady, J (2008) Transforming students´ views of gerontological nursing: Realising the potential of `enriched´ environments of learning and care: A multi-method longitudinal study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45: 1214-1232.
Balducci, C, Mnich, E, McKee, K J, Lamura, G, Beckmann, A, Krevers, B, Wojszel, Z B, Nolan, M, Prouskas, C, Bien, B and Öberg, B (2008) Negative impact and positive value in caregiving: Validation of the COPE Index in a six-country sample of carers. The Gerontologist, 48(3): 276-286.
Hellström, I, Nolan, M R and Lundh, U (2007) Sustaining `couplehood´: spouses´ strategies for living positively with dementia. Forthcoming in Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 6(3): 383-409.
Faulkner, M, Davies, S, Nolan, M R and Brown-Wilson, C (2006) Development of the Combined Assessment of Residential Environments (CARE) profiles. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 55(6): 664-667.
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Current Grants
2007-2010: Hanson E, Magnusson L, Petersson G, Gustavsson T, Lindström B and Nolan MR
ACTION: Working in partnership to improve health care and social welfare for older people and their family carers via ICT
A variety of national, regional and local sources – 18m Swedish Krona (circa £1.5m)
2007-2009: Fokus, ÄldreVäst Sjuhärad, Carers Sweden, Swedish Handicap Institute, University of Kalmar, Kalmar Municipality. Grant to set up the National Family Carers Competence Centre. 10m Swedish Krona (circa £800,000). Chair of International Advisory Group.
2006-2009: Hanson E, Magnusson L, Nolan MR, Nolan J, et al
Evaluating the implementation of COAT in Swedish Municipalities
(Various funding sources in Sweden, circa 5M Swedish Krona)
2006-2009: Hanson E, Magnusson M, Nolan MR et al
ACTION: Living with Dementia Support Service: a model/system for education and support via ICT
(The Knowledge Foundation, Sweden, Telia Sweden, ÄldreVäst Sjuhärad, Sweden – 8.7M Swedish Krona)
2005-2009: Patterson M, Rick J, Nolan MR, Davies S, Musson G
Culture change, organisational performance, and quality of acute hospital care for older people
(NHS Service Delivery and Organisation National R&D Programme - £331,489)