Staff profile: Nan Greenwood

Position: Senior Research Fellow
School: Nursing
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8725 3805
Email: n.greenwood@sgul.kingston.ac.uk

Biography

Nan's background is in social psychology. In the past she has worked in market and opinion research and as both an HE and FE lecturer teaching social sciences and health studies. She moved into academic research a decade ago and has experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods and systematic reviews.

Much of Nan's earlier research was in addictions and community mental health where she was involved in a range of studies, including research focusing on in-patient experiences and on mental health services. More recently she undertook a systematic review of Mental Health Act detention rates amongst different ethnic groups, which demonstrated a considerable excess of detentions amongst patients described as ‘black’. Ethnicity and diversity are areas of interest and another strand of research looked at the under-representation of students from ethnic minorities in allied health professions such as physiotherapy and speech and language therapy.

Currently Nan is working with Professor Ann Mackenzie and Nikki Wilson in research about informal carers of stroke survivors. There are several projects underway. The main qualitative research looks at the experiences of informal carers of stroke survivors using depth interviews and literature reviews. Using this background, they are about to embark on an intervention study to determine the effectiveness and acceptability of a problem solving intervention with informal carers.

Interests

Stroke; carers; ethnicity; mental health; mental health services.

Publications

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Number of items: 17.

Article

Greenwood, Nan and Mackenzie, Ann (2010) Informal caring for stroke survivors: meta-ethnographic review of qualitative literature. Maturitas, ISSN (print) 0378-5122 (In Press)

Greenwood, Nan , Mackenzie, Ann , Cloud, Geoffrey C. and Wilson, Nikki (2009) Informal primary carers of stroke survivors living at home - challenges, satisfactions and coping: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Disability and Rehabilitation, 31(5), pp. 337-351. ISSN (print) 0963-8288

Greenwood, Nan , Mackenzie, Ann , Cloud, Geoffrey and Wilson, Nikki (2009) Loss of autonomy, control and independence when caring: a qualitative study of informal carers of stroke survivors in the first three months after discharge. Disability and Rehabilitation, pp. 1-9. ISSN (print) 0963-8288 (In Press)

Greenwood, Nan , Mackenzie, Ann , Wilson, Nikki and Cloud, Geoffrey (2009) Managing uncertainty in life after stroke: A qualitative study of the experiences of established and new informal carers in the first 3 months after discharge. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(8), pp. 1122-1133. ISSN (print) 0020-7489

Greenwood, Nan (2009) Reflections of a researcher interviewing older people. Nursing Older People, 21(7), pp. 30-31. ISSN (print) 1472-0795

Mackenzie, Ann and Greenwood, Nan (2008) Assessment of informal carers: what implications will the new Strategy for Carers have? Policy & Politics, 36(4), pp. 601-604. ISSN (print) 0305-5736

Greenwood, Nan , Mackenzie, Ann , Cloud, Geoffrey C. and Wilson, Nikki (2008) Informal carers of stroke survivors: factors influencing carers: a systematic review of quantitative studies. Disability and Rehabilitation, 30(18), pp. 1329-1349. ISSN (print) 0963-8288

Greenwood, Nan , Mackenzie, Ann and Harris, Ruth (2008) New Deal for Carers or unfair deal: what is in it for informal carers of stroke survivors? Policy and Politics, 36(2), pp. 299-303. ISSN (print) 0305-5736

Singh, Swaran P. , Greenwood, Nan , White, Sarah and Churchill, Rachel (2007) Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983. British Journal of Psychiatry, 191(2), pp. 99-105. ISSN (print) 0007-1250

Greenwood, Nan , May, Steven , Lissouba, Pascale and Bithell, Christine (2007) Widening participation: accessing careers in the allied health professions. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 14(11), pp. 494-501. ISSN (print) 1741-1645

Bale, Rob , Catty, Jocelyn , Watt, Hilary , Greenwood, Nan and Burns, Tom (2006) Measures of the therapeutic relationship in severe psychotic illness: a comparison of two scales. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 52(3), pp. 256-266. ISSN (print) 0020-7640

Greenwood, Nan , Wright, Jannet A. and Bithell, Christine (2006) Perceptions of speech and language therapy amongst UK school and college students: implications for recruitment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 41(1), pp. 83-94. ISSN (print) 1368-2822

Greenwood, Nan , Lim, Kee Hean and Bithell, Christine (2005) Perceptions of occupational therapy compared with physiotherapy and nursing among minority ethnic and white United Kingdom school and college students: implications for recruitment. The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(2), pp. 75-84. ISSN (print) 0308-0226

Greenwood, Nan and Bithell, Christine (2005) Perceptions of physiotherapy compared with nursing and medicine amongst minority ethnic and white UK students: implications for recruitment. Physiotherapy, 91(2), pp. 69-78. ISSN (print) 0031-9406

Farmer, Roger and Greenwood, Nan (2001) General practitioners' management of problem drinkers: attitudes, knowledge and practice. Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 8(2), pp. 119-129. ISSN (print) 0968-7637

Conference or Workshop Item

Mackenzie, A and Greenwood, N (2009) Positive aspects of care-giving: a systematic review of older adult carers of stroke survivors. In: 2009 UK Stroke Forum Conference; 01 - 03 Dec 2009, Glasgow, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Monograph

Nash, Theresa , Needham, John , Greenwood, Nan , Forrest, Simon and Towell, Tony (2007) Adolescence: boundaries, connections and dilemmas. The report of an RCN survey into how nurses support young people in health care settings. (Project Report) London, UK : Royal College of Nursing. 52 p. ISBN 9781904114888

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Grants

  • Greenwood N, Mackenzie A, G Cloud et al (2008). Supporting informal carers of stroke survivors in primary care: an exploratory study of the perceptions of the role of primary care and opinions of the proposals put forward in the New Deal for Carers. Royal College of General Practitioners, 2008 £1,864
  • Mackenzie A; Greenwood N (2006). A pilot study of a problem solving intervention with informal carers of stroke survivors.  St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, 2006-2007