Staff profile: Veslemoy Guise
Position: Research Assistant
School: Nursing
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8682 5983
Email: v.guise@sgul.kingston.ac.uk or veslemoy.guise@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
Biography
Veslemoy Guise is a sociologist with research experience from both the government sector and academic institutions in New Zealand and the UK.
Her past professional research work spans many projects within a variety of disciplines, with topics related to mental health, child protection, women’s rights and higher education, amongst others.
She has also previously worked as a writer, editor and content manager.
Currently, Veslemoy is a research assistant within the Faculty’s School of Nursing, working on several research projects looking into CPD opportunities for mental health nurses. She is based at Springfield University Hospital.
Interests
Lived experiences of health and illness, sociology of health and illness, sociology of the body, sociology of nursing, research methods and methodology, social theory, media and cultural studies.
Publications
Article
Guise, Veslemoy, Chambers, Mary, Conradi, Emily, Kavia, Sheetal and Välimäki, Maritta (2011) Development, implementation and initial evaluation of narrative virtual patients for use in vocational mental health nurse training. Nurse Education Today, ISSN (print) 0260-6917
Guise, V, Chambers, M and Valimaki, M (2011) What can virtual patient simulation offer mental health nursing education? Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, ISSN (print) 1351-0126
Chambers, Mary, Guise, Veslemoy, Valimaki, Maritta, Botelho, Maria Antonia Rebelo, Scott, Anne, Staniuliene, Vida and Zanotti, Renzo (2010) Nurses' attitudes to mental illness: a comparison of a sample of nurses from five European countries. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 47(3), pp. 350-362. ISSN (print) 0020-7489
Guise, Veslemoy, Chambers, Mary, Valimaki, Maritta and Makkonen, Pekka (2010) A mixed-mode approach to data collection: combining web and paper questionnaires to examine nurses' attitudes to mental illness. Journal Of Advanced Nursing, 66(7), pp. 1623-1632. ISSN (print) 0309-2402
Book Section
Guise, V. and Chambers, M. (2007) Baseline information from England: towards improved quality by developing nurses' continuing vocational training in psychiatric hospitals and inpatient units in England. In: Valimaki, M , Scott, A , Lahti, M and Chanmbers, M, (eds.) The changing face of psychiatric nursing: care or control? ePsychNurse.Net: towards improved quality: improving nurses' continuing vocational training in psychiatric hospitals and inpatient units. Turku, Finland : Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku. pp. 60-76. ISBN 9789512935765
Conference or Workshop Item
Chambers, Mary, Guise, Veslemoy and Valimaki, Maritta (2007) Mental health nurses' attitudes to mental illness and people with mental health problems: results of a national survey in England. In: Unhealthy professional boundaries? Working together in health and social care; 04 - 05 Dec 2007, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
