Workforce, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) Expert Group

Some of our current studies include:

• NIHR HSDR (2025-2030) Staff Wellbeing: Innovative partnerships to enable staff to care well under pressure and thrive at work.  Award holder and PIs:  Cath Taylor and Jill Maben
• Wellcome discovery Award (2024-2029). Revisioning distress and nurse suicidality through a feminist, critical suicidology lens. Award holder and PI: Ruth Riley
• NIHR PHR (2024-2026). Supporting the health of women at work: A realist review of pregnancy, postnatal, and menopause workplace interventions and their effectiveness. Award holder and PI: Ruth Abrams.
• NIHR HSDR (2024-2026). Investigating the conditions in which women GPs thrive in General Practice: What works, for whom, how and in what circumstances? Award holder and PI: Ruth Abrams.
• Schwartz South: a hub and spoke model to spread Schwartz Rounds to other Higher Education Institutions in the south of England to support healthcare students and newly qualified staff. Jill Maben and Cath Taylor (co-PIs) with Sarah Papadacis, Maria Lambrianidou and Sarah Beck
• ‘Suffering with suicide’: Revisioning distress and nurse suicidality through a feminist,  
  critical suicidology lens. Ruth Riley (PI); Co-applicants: Jill Maben, Jennifer Oates; Research Fellows: Hilary Causer; Anna Conolly (Web page pending)
• Conceptualising loneliness for people with learning disabilities (PwLD): a co-designed intervention to support social connectedness in social care settings. Carys Banks
• Co-producing, co-delivering and evaluating learning disability awareness training for midwifery students (informed by findings from the Together Project). Anna Cox (PI)
• Conceptualising loneliness for people with learning disabilities (PwLD): a co-designed intervention to support social connectedness in social care settings. Carys Banks
• Strategies to address unprofessional behaviours among staff in acute healthcare settings: a realist review. Jill Maben (PI), Ruth Abrams and Justin Aunger
• TEAM-QI: an improvement programme to provide team-driven insights for supporting effectiveness in and between health and social care teams.
• Virtual consultations for people with learning disabilities, their families and healthcare providers: Using Experience-Based Co-Design to explore experiences, adapt, develop and implement best-practice guidance and training resources. Freda Mold (PI, Debbie Cooke, Jo Armes, Anna Cox, Treena Parsons
• ICON Study: the psychological wellbeing of nursing and midwifery staff and students during and after Covid-19, development of intervention guidelines for prevention and recovery. Keith Couper and UK RCN research Society Consortium with Jill Maben, Ruth Abrams and Anna Conolly, University of Surrey.
• Covid-19 resources. In April 2020, Professor Jill Maben and Professor Cath Taylor developed evidence informed guidance to support nurses psychological and mental health with Professor Jackie Bridges of the University of Southampton. The guidance is remains relevant to staff wellbeing post-pandemic; highlighting peer and team support and outlining what managers, organisations and leaders can do
  • Download our Covid-19: Guidance to support nurses’ psychological well-being (PDF)
  • Download our Covid-19: What can I do to support myself and others help sheet (PDF)
  • Watch Duncan Hamilton, a respiratory nurse, and Ann Gallagher, an ethics in care professor discuss how nurses can approach ethical dilemmas, particularly during Covid-19
• Identifying the impact of a colleague’s suicide on NHS staff, and their support needs, to inform prevention guidance. NIHR HS&DR. Ruth Riley (PI), Jill Maben, Johanne Spiers, Hilary Causer and colleagues
• Delegation of insulin administration to non-registered healthcare workers in community nursing teams: an evaluation of care and practice for older people with diabetes. Jill Maben and Karen Stenner. Dunhill Medical Trust
• Caring and Assessing Mental Health of Student Populations at UNIMIB and UniSurrey: the CAMPUS study (Ilaria Riboldi; supervised by Cath Taylor and Jo Armes at UoS and Giuseppe Carra and Cristina Crocamo at UNIMIB 

• The SEE-IT Trial: Emergency Medical Services Streaming Enabled Evaluation In Trauma: a feasibility randomised controlled trial (NIHR HSDR). Cath Taylor/Richard Lyon (co-PIs); Surrey co-applicants/research team: Lucie Ollis, Simon Skene, Heather Gage, Matthew Glover; Rachael Cooke; Kate Bennett; Jill Maben; Scott Munro; Carin Magnusson; Mark Cropley. Other co-applicants/research team: Julia Williams; Craig Mortimer; Janet Holah
• The DCC service Realist Evaluation. Ruth Abrams, Heather Gage, Jill Maben, Michelle Gibbs (ARC KSS)
• Care Under Pressure 2: workplace psychological ill-health for nurses, midwives and paramedics: a realist review. PIs: Jill Maben and Cath Taylor - A link to our guide and webinar can be found on our project and resources page.
• Evaluation of the implementation of the Team Time intervention for NHS staff (funded by the Point of Care Foundation).  Magda Zasada (PI), Suzanne van Even Cath Taylor and Jill Maben

• Understanding and improving the lived experience of neurodivergent nurses practising in mental health settings in the NHS (Charlotte Clee; supervised by Anna Cox and Anna Conolly)
• Understanding breast cancer inequalities across the care pathway through the lens of intersectionality: A transformational mixed methods study (Mar Estupiñán Fdez. de Mesa; supervised by Katriina Whitaker, Emma Ream and Afrodita Marcu)
• The use of Schwartz Rounds within healthcare undergraduate settings - a realist synthesis and evaluation. What works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why? (Duncan Hamilton; supervised by Jill Maben and Cath Taylor)
• Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic (BAME) Undergraduate Midwifery Students’ Experiences of Mentoring During Clinical Placement:  A Mixed-Methods Study (Damla Kaya; supervised by Carin Magnusson and Alison Callwood)
• Monitoring students’ mental health at University of Milano-Bicocca and University of Surrey: a comparative study (Ilaria Riboldi; supervised by Cath Taylor and Jo Armes at UoS and Giuseppe Carra and Cristina Crocamo at UNIMIB 

Abrams, R., Conolly, A., Rowland, E., Harris, R., Kelly, D., Kent, B., & Maben, J. (2024). Self, interpersonal and organisational acts of compassion amongst nurses during times of acute stress: A qualitative analysis, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 5(4):100437, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100437

Abrams, Ruth, Johanna Spiers, Jill Maben, Wendy Grosvenor, Morro Touray, Heather Gage (2024). Dementia Care Coordinators in Primary Care: A Realist Evaluation University of Surrey, UK 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-UCL-QHRN2024.1

Abrams, Ruth (2024) Fantasy, In: P. Matthijs Bal (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Organizational Psychology Edward Elgar Publishing

Abrams, Ruth (2024) Job Seekers, In: P. Matthijs Bal (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology Edward Elgar Publishing

Abrams, Ruth (2024) Exhausted…, In: puntOorg International Journal1(1)171 Editoriale scientifica. DOI: 10.19245/25.05.of.11.06.24.1

Abrams R, Brewis D, Imas M, (2024) Navigating the labour market: Women job seekers’ mobilisation of a postfeminist sensibility, In: Work, Employment and Society 

Aunger, Justin A., Ruth Abrams, Johanna I. Westbrook, Judy M. Wright, Mark Pearson, Aled Jones, Russell Mannion, Jill Maben (2024) Why do acute healthcare staff behave unprofessionally towards each other and how can these behaviours be reduced? A realist review, In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research12(25) NIHR Journals Library DOI: 10.3310/PAMV3758

Aunger, Justin A. Ruth Abrams, Russell Mannion, Johanna I. Westbrook, Aled Jones, Judy M. Wright, Mark Pearson, Jill Maben (2024) How can interventions more directly address drivers of unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff?, In: BMJ Open Quality13e002830 BMJ. DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-002830

Causer, H., Spiers, J., Chew-Graham, C. A., Efstathiou, N., Gopfert, A., Grayling, K., Maben, J., Van Hove, M., Riley, R. (2024). Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK. Death Studies, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2337202

Causer, H., Spiers, J., & Riley, R. (2024). A Method for Synthesizing Qualitative Data Sources in the Co-Production of Postvention Guidelines for the NHS: A Worked Example. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241229985

Conolly, A., Maben, J., Abrams, R., Harris, R.,& Kelly, D.,& Kent, B.,& Couper, K.,& and Rowland, E., (2024) There was a pivotal moment’. The dynamics, transitions, adaptations and trajectories of nursing at the front-line in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. PlosOne. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38422041/

Conolly, A., Rowland, E., Abrams, R., Harris, R., Kelly, D., Kent, B., Couper, K., & Maben, J. (2024). The ‘un-doing’ and ‘re-doing’ of nurses’ derealisation: Exploring the effects of the heroic keyworker discourses during the COVID-19 pandemic. PuntOorg International Journal, 1(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.19245/25.05.of.04.01.23

Cox A., Tobutt D., Harris J., Watkin S., Eynon C., Matuska G. (2024) Learning disability awareness training for undergraduate midwifery students: Multi-method evaluation of a co-produced and co-delivered educational intervention in England, Nurse Education Today, Volume 140 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106289 

Cox A., Ip A., Watkin S., Matuska G., Bunford S., Gallagher A., Taylor C. (2024) Implementing and evaluating resources to support good maternity care for parents with learning disabilities: A qualitative feasibility study in England, Midwifery, Volume 133, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2024.104001 

Gil N., Cox A., Whitaker K. L. & Kerrison R. S. (2023) Cancer risk-factor and symptom awareness among adults with intellectual disabilities, paid and unpaid carers, and healthcare practitioners: a scoping review. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.13110 

Haddad A., Arber A., Cox A., Gallagher A. (2024) The challenges experienced by ICU nurses in Kuwait during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2024.100226 

Hollins, K., Cox, A., McDermott, M., Jabeen, A. & Elfrida Society (2023) Loving Babies. Published by Books Beyond Words https://booksbeyondwords.co.uk/bookshop/loving-babies 

Ip, A., Kendall, S., Jabeen, A., Watkin, S., & Cox, A. (2024). A measure to evaluate parenting interventions: Using inclusive research to modify a tool to measure change in parenting self-efficacy during the antenatal period. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 52, 179–187. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12561

Lodhia S, Pegna V, Abrams R, Jackson D, Rockall TA, Rizan C, (2024) Improving environmental sustainability of operating theatres: a systematic review of staff attitudes, barriers, and enablers

Maben, J. and Conolly, A. (2024). Lessons for structure, workplace planning and responding to emergencies from nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic. In R. Williams, V. Kemp, K. Porter, T. Healing & J. Drury (Eds.), Pandemics, Major Incidents and Mental Health: The Psychosocial and Mental Health Aspects of Health Emergencies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maben, Jill., Taylor, Cath., Jagosh, Justin., Carrieri, Daniele., Briscoe, Simon., Klepacz, Naomi.,  Mattick, Karen., (2024) Causes and solutions to workplace psychological ill-health for nurses, midwives and paramedics: the Care Under Pressure 2 realist review, In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research12(9) NIHR Journals Library DOI: 10.3310/TWDU4109

Magnusson C, Ollis L, Munro S, Maben J, Coe A, Fitzgerald O, Taylor C (2024) Video livestreaming from medical emergency callers’ smartphones to emergency medical dispatch centres: a scoping review of current uses, opportunities and challenges.  BMC Emergency Medicine, 24:99 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-024-01015-9 

Pruijsten, R. Ista E. Maben, J. van Heel, L. van Dijk M. (2024) Nurses’ perceptions of the transition to 100% single-occupancy patient rooms in a university hospital in the Netherlands: an uncontrolled before and after study. BMC Nurs 23, 106 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-01758-7

Riboldi I, Calabrese A, Piacenti S, Capogrosso CA, Paioni SL, Bartoli F, Carrà G, Armes J, Taylor C, Crocamo C (2024) Understanding University Students' Perspectives towards Digital Tools for Mental Health Support: A Cross-country Study, In: Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health20e17450179271467 DOI: 10.2174/0117450179271467231231060255

Rowland, E and Conolly, A. (2024). Using Reflexive thematic analysis in nursing research: A worked example, Nurse Researcher. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2024.e1924

Spiers, Johanna., Hilary Causer, Nikos Efstathiou, Carolyn A. Chew Graham, Anya Gopfert, Kathryn Grayling, Jill Maben, Maria van Hove & Ruth Riley (2024) Negotiating the postvention situation: A grounded theory of NHS staff experiences when supporting their coworkers following a colleague’s suicide, Death Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2023.2297056

Taylor, Cath., Jill Maben, Justin Jagosh, Daniele Carrieri, Simon Briscoe, Naomi Klepacz, Karen Mattick (2024)Care Under Pressure 2: A realist synthesis of causes and interventions to mitigate psychological ill-health in nurses, midwives and paramedics, BMJ Quality & Safety doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016468 

Taylor C, Ollis L, Lyon RM, Williams J, et al (2024) The SEE-IT Trial: Emergency Medical Services Streaming-Enabled Evaluation In Trauma: a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 32(7), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-024-01179-0 

Whitaker, K.L., Cox, A., McErlean, G., Pal, A., Stansbury, K., Estupiñán Fdez de Mesa, M., Kerrison, R. S., Gil, N., Marcu, A., Armes, J., Yap, M. L., Delaney, G. P., Hoyo, C. (2024) Integrating Implementation Theory to Address Inequities in Cancer Care: Perspectives from an International Working Group, European Journal of Cancer Care https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/9994508 

Aunger, J.A*. Maben^, J.* (joint first authors), Abrams, R. Wright, J.M. Mannion, R. Pearson, M. Jones^, A. Westbrook, J.I. Drivers of unprofessional behaviour between staff in acute care hospitals: a realist review. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 1326 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10291-3 

Hamilton D, Taylor C, Maben J (2023) How does a group reflection intervention (Schwartz Rounds) work within healthcare undergraduate settings?  A realist review. Perspectives on medical education, 12(1):550-564. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.930

Ollis L, Skene SS, Williams J, Lyon R, Taylor C et al (2023) The SEE-IT Trial:  emergency medical services Streaming-Enabled Evaluation In Trauma: study protocol for an interventional feasibility randomised controlled trial.  BMJ Open, 13: e072877 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072877

Rasmussen, B., Holton, S., Wynter, K., Phillips, D.J., David, J.L., Rothmann, M.J., Skjoeth, M.M., Wijk, H., Frederiksen, K., Ahlstrom, L., Anderson, J.E., Harris, R., Conolly, A., Kent, B. and Maben, J. (2023), Letter to editor. J Adv Nurs, 79: 2774-2775. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15632 

Riboldi I, Capogrosso CA, Piacenti S, Calabrese A, Paioni SL, Bartoli F, Crocamo C, Carra G, Armes J, Taylor C (2023) Mental health and COVID-19 in university students: findings from a qualitative comparative study in Italy and the UK.  Intn J of Env Res and Pub Health 20(5):4071

Alaa Alghamdi, Angus I. G. Ramsay, Ruth Abrams, Julia V. Bailey (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Patient Engagement with Primary Healthcare: Lessons from the Saudi Primary Care Setting, BMC Primary Care. DOI: 10.1186/s12875-023-02131-4  

Ruth Abrams, Heather Mary Gage, Jill Maben, Wendy Grosvenor, Kath Sykes, Morro M L Touray (2023) Dementia Care Coordinator Service in Kent and Medway: A realist evaluation protocol, British Journal of General Practice Open. DOI: 10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0098

Ruth Abrams, Sharon Blake (2023) UK general practice service delivery research priorities: An adapted James Lind Alliance approach, British Journal of General Practice.  DOI: 0.3399/BJGP.2023.0226  

Ruth Abrams, Bridget Jones, John Campbell, Simon de Lusignan, Stephen Peckham and Heather Gage (2023) The effect of general practice team composition and climate on staff and patient experiences: A systematic review. British Journal of General Practice Open.  

Atkins, S.; Pilnick, A.; Maben, J.; Thompson, L. (2023) Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: a conversation analytic study Social Science & Medicine. 

Bamforth, K., Rae, P., Maben, J., Lloyd, H., Pearce, S. (2023) Perceptions of healthcare professionals’ psychological wellbeing at work and the link to patients’ experiences of care: a scoping review International Journal of Nursing Studies.  

Conolly, A., Rowland, E., Abrams, R., Harris, R., Kelly, D., Kent, B. & Maben, J. (2023). “Pretty cathartic actually”: Reflections on the attempt to reduce re-traumatization of researchers and nurses taking part in a longitudinal interview study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 00, 1-11. DOI: 10.1111/jan.15764  

Conolly, A. (2023), Commentary: Factors associated with the presence of fear of contagion and burnout syndrome in nursing personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Research in Nursing.  

Groothuizen, Johanna Eunice Aroyewun, Magdalena Zasada, Jenny Harris, Madeleine Hewish, Cath Taylor (2023) Virtually the same? Examining the impact of the COVID-19 related shift to virtual lung cancer multidisciplinary team meetings in the United Kingdom National Health Service: a mixed methods study, In: BMJ Open BMJ Publishing Group DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065494   

Lafitte, N., Mold, F., & Magnusson, C. (2023). Specialist paramedics' perceptions of their transition to primary care. Journal of Paramedic Practice, 15(2), 78-83. DOI: 10.12968/jpar.2023.15.2.78  

Maben, J.*; Aunger, J.A.* (joint first authors); Abrams, R.; Wright, J.M.; Pearson, M.;  Westbrook, J.I.; Jones, A.; Mannion, R. (2023) Interventions to address unprofessional behaviours between staff in acute care: What works for whom and why? A realist review. BMC Medicine 

Maben J. Conolly, A. Abrams, R. Rowland, E. Harris, R. Kelly, D. and Kent, B. (2023) Psychological impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on nurses and midwives. Nursing Times October 2023: vol119, issue 10.  

Maben, J.  Conolly, A.  Abrams, R.  Rowland, E.  Harris, R.  Kelly, D.  Kent, B. Couper, K. (2023). Forever altered: The impact of COVID-19 on nurses: Research recommendations. University of Surrey: Guildford. 

Maben, Jill. Aunger, Justin. A. Abrams, Ruth. Mannion, Russell. Pearson, Mark. Wright, Judy M. Jones, Aled. Westbrook, Johanna. (2023). Addressing unprofessional behaviours between healthcare staff: A guide. University of Surrey: Guildford. 

Maben, J. and Conolly, A. (in press). Lessons for structure, workplace planning and responding to emergencies from nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic. In R. Williams, V. Kemp, K. Porter, T. Healing & J. Drury (Eds.), Pandemics, Major Incidents and Mental Health: The Psychosocial and Mental Health Aspects of Health Emergencies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Ollis, L., Skene, S. S., Williams, J., Lyon, R., & Taylor, C. on behalf of the SEE-IT Trial Group (2023). The SEE-IT Trial: Emergency medical services Streaming Enabled Evaluation In Trauma: study protocol for an interventional feasibility randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 13(4), e072877. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072877  

Pointon-Haas J, Byrom N, Foster J, Hayes C, Oates J. (2023) Staff Perspectives: Defining the Types, Challenges and Lessons Learnt of University Peer Support for Student Mental Health and Wellbeing. Education Sciences. 13(9):962. DOI: 10.3390/educsci13090962  

Kathy Reynolds and Anna Cox. (2023) Exploring staff’s views on the implementation of intergenerational playgroups in care homes. Nursing Older People. DOI: 10.7748/nop.2023.e1432      

Riley, R., Causer, H., Patrick, L., & Rogowsky, R. (2023). Why are dominant suicidology approaches failing nurses? A call for a feminist critical suicidology perspective. Journal of advanced nursing, 10.1111/jan.15899. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/jan.15899  

Riley, R., & Causer, H. (2023). Why do NHS staff need suicide prevention? A call to leaders to implement new evidence-based guidance. National Health Executive Magazine. 36-39. National Health Executive: September / October 23  

Stenner K, Shore CB, Maben J, Mold F, Winkley K, Cook A. (2023) Delegation of insulin administration to non-registered healthcare workers in community nursing teams: a qualitative study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/jan.15662 

Schafthuizen, L. Ista, E. van der Heijden, M. van Heel, L. Maben J. van Rosmalen, J. van Eijck, C. van Dijk, M. (2023) ‘Hospitalised patients’ sleep quality compared between multi-occupancy rooms and single-occupancy rooms’. Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD) 2023 Jul;16(3):119-133. doi: 10.1177/19375867231168895. Epub 2023 May 4. 

Spiers, J. (2023). Supporting colleagues after suicide. Key Worker, Issue 1, 27-28. Key Worker Magazine - Issue 1 (September 2023) by Key Worker Magazine - Issuu  

Emily Williams, Anna Cox, Jemima Onih, Kylie Rolle, Maria Adams, Heather Caudle, and Jill Maben (2023) Melting the Snowy White Peaks: The needs, expectations and experiences of Black, Asian and minority ethnic student nurses to support equitable nursing education and career progression. Nurse Education Today. Volume 128, 105897 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105897    

Zasada, Magdalena, Jenny Harris, Johanna Groothuizen, Eunice Aroyewun, Jeewaka Mendis, Cath Taylor, Madeleine Hewish (2023) Investigating the efficiency of lung Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings; a mixed methods study of eight lung Multi-Disciplinary teams, In: Cancer Medicine Wiley DOI: 10.1002/cam4.5730 

Jill Maben, Jane Ball and Amy Edmondson (2023) Workplace conditions and health care improvement. Chapter in the Great Big Book of quality Improvement . This Institute, University of Cambridge. (OPEN ACCESS) Workplace Conditions (cambridge.org)

Estupiñán Fdez. De Mesa, M., Marcu, A., Ream, E. & Whitaker, K. (2023). Relationship between intersectionality and cancer inequalities: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 13, Relationship between intersectionality and cancer inequalities: a scoping review protocol | BMJ Open

Abrams, A, Bal, M.P, D'Cruz,P, Hornung,S, Islam, G, McDonald, M, Sanderson, Z, Tonelli, M.J. (2023)The story of this special issue on critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology, Applied psychology, DOI: 10.1111/apps.12445

Maben, J. Ball, J and Edmondson A. (2023) Workplace conditions and health care improvement. Chapter in the Great Big Book of quality Improvement . This Institute, University of Cambridge. (OPEN ACCESS)

Lynette Cusack, Rebecca Munt, Naomi Verdonk PhD, Tim Schultz, Jill Maben (2023). Comparison of experiences of nursing staff and patients before and after move to 100% single-bed room hospital in Australia (PDF): Mixed methods. BMJ Open 23(81) (OPEN ACCESS)

Ruth Abrams, Anna Conolly, Emma Rowland, Ruth Harris, Bridie Kent, Daniel Kelly, Keith Couper and Jill Maben (2023). Speaking up during the COVID-19 pandemic: Nurses’ experiences of organisational disregard and silence. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2023;00:1–11. (OPEN ACCESS)

Maben, J., Conolly, A., Abrams, R., Rowland, E., Harris, R., Kelly, D., Kent, B., & Couper, K. (2022). ‘“You can’t walk through water without getting wet” Exploring nurse distress and psychological health needs during COVID-19: A longitudinal qualitative study’, International Journal of Nursing Studies. Accepted for publication

Taylor, C. Mattick, K. Carrieri, D. Cox, A. Maben, J. ‘The WOW factors’: Comparing Workforce Organisation and Wellbeing for doctors, nurses, midwives, and paramedics in England. British Medical Bulletin DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldac003

Conolly, A. (2022). The effect of stress levels on nurses’ performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Commentary editorial in Journal of Research in Nursing. 

AUTHORS MISSING We’re on mute! Exclusion of nurses’ voices in national decisions and responses to covid-19: an international perspective. Guest editorial. Journal of Advanced Nursing

Conolly, A., Abrams, R., Rowland, E., Harris, R., Kelly, D., Kent, B., Couper, K. & Maben, J. (2022). ‘What is the matter with me?’ or a ‘badge of honour’: Nurses’ constructions of resilience during COVID-19, Global Qualitative Nursing Research. Under review.

Maben J, Aunger JA, Abrams R, Pearson, M, Wright, J. M., Westbrook, J, Mannion, R., Jones, A. (2022) Why do acute healthcare staff engage in unprofessional behaviours towards each other and how can these behaviours be reduced? A realist review protocol BMJ Open 2022;12:e061771. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061771

Alghamdi, A., Abrams, R., Bailey, J., Alves, P., and Park, S. (2022) Causal explanations for patient engagement with primary care services in Saudi Arabia: A realist review protocol, BMJ Open (in press)

Rasmussen B, Holton S, Wynter K, Phillips, David J, Rothman M, Skjoth MM, Wijik H, Frederiksen K, Ahlstrom L, Anderson JE, Harris R, Anna Conolly, Kent B & Jill Maben (2022) We’re on mute! Exclusion of nurses’ voices in national decisions and responses to COVID-19: an international perspective. Journal of Advanced Nursing 78(7) pages e87-e90. DOI: 10.1111/jan.15236 

Jane Ball, Sydney Anstee, Keith Couper, Jill Maben, Holly Blake, Janet E. Anderson, Daniel Kelly, Ruth Harris, Anna Conolly on behalf of the full ICON Study Team. (2022) The impact of COVID-19 on Nurses (ICON) survey: Nurses’ accounts of what would have helped to improve their working lives. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2022 (OPEN ACESS)

Hilary Causer, Johanna Spiers, Nikoloas Efstathiou, Stephanie Aston, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Anya Gopfert, Kathryn Grayling, Jill Maben, Maria van Hove, Ruth Riley (2022). The impact of colleague suicide and the current state of postvention guidance for effected co-workers: A critical integrative review. International journal of environmental research and public health 19 (18), 11565 (Open Access)

J Brown, S Slatyer, S Jakimowicz, Jill Maben, P Calleja, H Donovan, Lynette Cusack, Dawn Cameron, Vicki Cope, Tracy Levett-Jones, Moira Williamson, Karen Klockner, Alison Walsh, Melissa Arnold-Chamney, Olivia Hollingsdrake; Debra Thoms; Ravani Duggan (2022). Coping With Covid-19. Work Life Experiences Of Nursing, Midwifery And Paramedic Academics: An International Interview Study. Nurse Education Today, 105560, 2022  

J Jackson, J Maben, JE Anderson. (2022) What are nurses’ roles in modern healthcare? a qualitative interview study using interpretive description. Journal of Research in Nursing, 0(0) 1-13. 17449871211070981, 2022 (Open Access)

A Jones, J Maben, M Adams, R Mannion, C Banks, J Blake, K Job, D Kelly. (2022) Implementation of ‘Freedom to Speak Up Guardians’ in NHS acute and mental health trusts in England: the FTSUG mixed-methods study National Institute for Health and Care Research, 2022/8 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK583156/ (OPEN ACCESS)

Aunger J A. Millar, R. Rafferty, AM. Mannion, R. Collaboration over competition? Regulatory reform and inter-organisational relations in the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08059-2

Aunger J.A., Millar R., Rafferty AM., Mannion R., Greenhalgh J., McLeod H. How, why, and when do inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare work? A realist evaluation. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266899

Colin B Shore, Jill Maben, Freda Mold, Kirsty Winkley, Angela Cook, Karen Stenner (2021). Delegation of medication administration from registered nurses to non-registered support workers in community care settings: a systematic review using a critical interpretive synthesis approach. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 104121, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104121

Keith Couper, Trevor Murrells, Julie Sanders, Janet E Anderson, Holly Blake, Daniel Kelly, Bridie Kent, Jill Maben, Anne Marie Rafferty, Rachel M Taylor, Ruth Harris. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: a longitudinal survey study. International Journal of Nursing Studies  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104155

Gallagher A; Lane A, Egan C, Ota K, Aoishi K, Nakayama N, Kasimovskaya N, Fomina E, Geraskina N, Shalakhova A, Cox A (2021) Views of Generation Z regarding care and care careers: a four-country study. International Journal of Care and Caring DOI: 10.1332/239788221X16308608299691

Maben J, Taylor C, Reynolds E, McCarthy I, Leamy M (2021)  Realist evaluation of Schwartz Rounds for enhancing the delivery of compassionate healthcare: understanding how they work, for whom, and in what contexts.  BMC Health Services Research, 21, 709   https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06483-4Maben J, Hoinville L, Querstret D, Taylor C, Zasada M, Abrams R (2021). Living life in limbo: experiences of healthcare professionals during the HCPC fitness to practice investigation process in the UK. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Aug 19;21(1):839. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06785-7. PMID: 34412640; PMCID: PMC8375211. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34412640/

Maben J. Taylor, C. Reynolds, E. McCarthy, I. Leamy M. (2021) Realist evaluation of Schwartz rounds® for enhancing the delivery of compassionate healthcare: understanding how they work, for whom, and in what contexts. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 709 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06483-4

Dawson J, McCarthy I. Taylor, C. Hildenbrand K, Leamy M. Reynolds, E., Maben J. (2021) Effectiveness of a group intervention to reduce the psychological distress of healthcare staff: a pre-post quasi-experimental evaluation. BMC Health Services Research 21 (1); 293 

Jackson, J. Anderson, J. Maben, J. (2021) What is nursing work? A meta-narrative review and integrated framework. International Journal of Nursing Studies. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.103944

Jones A, Blake J, Adams M, Kelly D, Mannion R and Maben J. (2021) Interventions promoting employee “speaking up” within healthcare workplaces. A systematic narrative review of the international literature. Health Policy 125(3)pp. 375-384 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.12.016

Maben J. and Taylor, C. (2021) “Schwartz Center Rounds: an intervention to enhance staff well-being and promote organisational change”. Book chapter in “The Triple Challenge: Connecting Health care worker well-being, patient safety and organisational change”. Springer Nature.

Jones A, Blake J, Banks C, Adams M, Kelly D, Mannion R and Maben J. (2021) Speaking up about bullying and harassment in healthcare: reflections and analysis on worker well-being and patient safety following the introduction of an innovative new role in NHS England. Book chapter in “The Triple Challenge: Connecting Health care worker well-being, patient safety and organisational change”. Springer Nature.Conolly, A. & Maben, J. (2021) The ICON interview study: Stigma and Support during Covid-19 - Florence Nightingale Foundation (florence-nightingale-foundation.org.uk)

Zasada M, Yates M, Ayers N, Ide Z, Norton S, Galloway J, Taylor C (2021) Exploring the macro-level, meso-level and micro-level barriers and facilitators to the provision of good quality early inflammatory arthritis

Taylor C, Harris J, Stenner K, Sevdalis N, Green JSA (2021) A multi-method evaluation of the implementation of a cancer teamwork assessment and feedback improvement programme (MDT-FIT) across a large integrated cancer system.  Cancer Medicine: DOI: 10.1002/cam4.3719

Morey, S., Magnusson, C., & Steven, A. (2021). Exploration of the student nurses' experiences in practice of patient safety events, reporting and patient involvement. Nurse Education Today, DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104831

McKellar, D., Stanley, H., et al., 2021. Chapter 13 From fractured to flourishing: Developing clinical leadership for frontline culture change. International Practice Development in Health and Social Care, 2nd Edition Edited by K. Manley and C. Oye.

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Gallagher, A, Peacock, M, Williams, E, Zasada, M, Cox, A. Findings from a mixed‐methods pragmatic cluster trial evaluating the impact of ethics education interventions on residential care‐givers. Nurs. Inq. 2020; 00:e12383. DOI: 10.1111/nin.12383

Gallagher A, Peacock M, Cox A (2020) Exploring the experiences of domiciliary caregivers simulating the role of care recipients Nursing Standard doi: 10.7748/ns.2020.e11382

Abrams, R, Park, S, Wong, G, Rastogi, J, Boylan, A-M, Tierney, S, Petrova, M, Dawson, S and Roberts, N. (2020) Lost in reviews: Looking for the involvement of stakeholders, patients, public and other non-researcher contributors in realist reviews. Research Synthesis Methods, DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1459

Abrams R, Sriranjan A, Park S, Coppola W, Ferris M. (2020) Exploring stories of learning and professional development: interactions between GP personal tutors and medical students,Education for Primary Care, pp. 1-7, DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2020.1786467

Abrams, R., Wong, G., Mahtani, K.R., Tierney, S, Boylan, A-M, Roberts, N. and Park, S. (2020). The impact of delegated home visits in general practice: a realist review on GP workload and patient care. BJGP. Accepted for publication 2 Feb 2020.

Adams, M. Kelly, D. Maben, J. Mannion R. Banks, C. Jones, A (2020). How do “heroes” speak up?  NHS staff raising concerns during covid-19. BMJ Opinion August 11 2020.

Antony, A. Maben, J. Harris, R and Bridges, J. (2020) Research that supports nursing teams 2: learning opportunities that help staff to deliver better care. Nursing Times [online]; 116: 11, 20-22.

Azimirad, M., Magnusson, C., Wiseman, A., Selander, T., Parviainen, I.,Turunen, H., (2020). Nurses’ ability to timely activate rapid response systems for deteriorating patients: A comparative case scenario study between Finnish and British nurses. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, accepted for publication 6 April 2020.

Bick, D., Taylor, C., Bhavnani, V., Healey, A., Seed, P., Roberts, S, Zasada, M., Avery, A., Craig, V, Khazaezadah, N., McMullen, S., O’Connor, S., Oki, B., Ntim, E.O., Poston, L. and Ussher, M. (2020) Lifestyle information and commercial weight management groups to support maternal postnatal weight management and positive lifestyle behaviour: the SWAN feasibility randomised controlled trial. BJOG, 127(5), pp. 636-645, DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.16043.

Bridges J Harris, R Maben, J & Arthur, A (2020) Research that supports nursing teams 1: how research can improve patient care and nurse wellbeing. Nursing Times [online]: 116(10), 23-2507 September 2020.

Eaton-Williams, P., Mold, F. and Magnusson, C., (2020). Effective clinical feedback provision to ambulance clinicians: a literature review. Journal of Paramedic Practice, 12(3), pp.109-117. DOI: 10.12968/jpar.2020.12.3.109.

Jackson, J., Iacovides, J., Duncan, M., Alders, M., Maben, J. and Anderson, J. (2020). Operationalizing resilience engineering concepts through a serious video game for healthcare professionals. Applied Ergonomics, 87, DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103112.

Harris, R Arthur, A Bridges, J & Maben, J (2020) Research that supports nursing teams 3: applying research findings to the organisation of nursing care. Nursing Times 116(12), 50-52.

Jakimowicz, S. and Maben J. (2020) “I can’t stop thinking about it”: Schwartz Rounds an intervention to support students and higher education staff with emotional, social and ethical experiences at work. Editorial. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2020 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15354

Maben, J Harris, R Arthur, A & Bridges, J (2021)  Research that supports nursing teams 4: promoting the wellbeing of team members Nursing Times 117(1), 44-47

Maben, J. and Bridges J. (2020) Covid-19: Supporting nurses’ psychological and mental health. Editorial Journal of Clinical Nursing, DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15307.

MacPhee, M., Wong, G., Abrams, R. and Merrett, K. (2020). Team Processes in Canadian Primary HealthCare : A Realist Review Protocol, Healthcare Quarterly Longwoods Publishing, DOI: 10.14288/1.0388742.

McCarthy, I. Taylor, C. Reynolds, E. Leamy M. Maben J. (2020) ‘We needed to talk about it’: The experience of sharing the emotional impact of healthcare work as a panellist in Schwartz Center Rounds in the UK. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 0(0) 1-8.

Meyer F, Bick D, Taylor C (2020) To what extent does UK and Irish maternity policy and guidance address integration of services to meet needs of women with comorbidity? A policy document review. Midwifery, 88 (102758) DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2020.102758

Querstret, D., O’Brien, K., Skene, D.J. and Maben, J. (2020). Improving fatigue risk management in healthcare: A systematic scoping review of sleep-related/fatigue-management interventions for nurses and midwives. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 106. doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103513.

Sriranjan, A.N, Abrams, R, Wong, G. and Park, S. (2020). Towards an understanding of GP’s viewpoint on diagnosing postnatal depression in general practice: a small-scale realist evaluation. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 21, e42, pp1-8.

Tierney, S., Wong, G., Roerts, N., Boylan, A-M., Park, S., Abrams, R., Reeve, J., Williams, V. and Mahtani, K.R. (2020) Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: a realist review. BMC Medicine, 18 (49). doi: DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-1510-7.

Wharrad, H. Sarre, S. Schneider, J. Maben, J. Aldus, C. Argyle, E. Arthur A. (2020) IN-PREP: A new learning design framework and methodology applied to a relational care training intervention for healthcare assistants. BMC Health Services Research 20 :1010- pages 1-9. 

Abrams, R., Vandrevala, T., Samsi, K. and Manthorpe, J. (2019). The need for flexibility when negotiating professional boundaries in the context of home care, dementia and end of life, Ageing and Society, 39(9) pp. 1976-1995, doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18000375.

Bick, D., Taylor, C., Avery, A., Bhavnani, V, Craig, V, Healey, A., Khazaezadeh, N., McMullen, S., Oki, B., Ntim, E.O., O’Connor, S., Poston, L., Seed, P., Roberts, S. and Ussher, M.  (2019). Protocol for a two-arm feasibility RCT to support postnatal maternal weight management and positive lifestyle behaviour in women from an ethnically diverse inner city population: the SWAN feasibility trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5(117), DOI: 10.1186/s40814-019-0497-3.

D'Astous, V., Abrams, R., Vandrevala, T., Samsi, K. and Manthorpe J. (2019). Gaps in Understanding the Experiences of Homecare Workers Providing Care for People with Dementia up to the End of Life: A Systematic Review, Dementia, 18(3) pp. 970-989, doi: 10.1177/1471301217699354.

Hoinville, L., Taylor, C., Zasada, M., Warner, R., Pottle, E. and Green, J. (2019) Improving the effectiveness of cancer multidisciplinary team meetings: analysis of a national survey of MDT members. BMJ Open Quality, 8(2):e000631, doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000631.

Kelly, M., Berlin, A., Abrams, R. and Park S. (2019) Pitfalls and pleasures of pick-and-mix careers: portfolio working and whole-person medicine in general practice, British Journal of General Practice, 69(689), pp. 622-623, doi:10.3399/bjgp19X707021

Leamy, M., Reynolds, E., Robert, G., Taylor, C. and Maben J. (2019).The origins and implementation of an intervention to support healthcare staff to deliver compassionate care: exploring fidelity and adaptation in the transfer of Schwartz Center Rounds from the United states to the United Kingdom. BMC Health Serv Res, 18;19(1), pp. 457. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4311-y

Maben J and King A. (2019) Engaging NHS staff in research. BMJ Editorial, 365(14040), 

Manthorpe, J., Vandrevala, T., Abrams, R. and Samsi, K. (2019) Working with colleagues and other professionals when caring for people with dementia at the end of life: home care workers’ experiences. International Journal of Care and Caring, 3(4) pp. 567-583, doi: 10.1332/239788219X15651814499954

Park, S. and Abrams, R. (2019). Alma-Ata 40th birthday celebrations and the Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care 2018, British Journal of General Practice, 69(682) pp. 220-221, doi: 10.3399/bjgp19X702293.

Park, S., Abrams, R., Wong, G., Feder, G., Mahtani, K.R., Barber, J. and Salisbury, C. (2019). Reorganisation of general practice: be careful what you wish for, British Journal of General Practice, 69(687), pp. 517-518, doi: 10.3399/bjgp19X705941 View abstract

Pevan K, Purssell E, Taylor C., Bick, D. and Lopez, V.K. (2019). Breastfeeding support in low and middle income countries: Secondary analysis of national survey data.  Midwifery, 10(82), doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2019.102601. 

Robert, G., Sarre, S., Maben, J., Griffiths P. and Chable R. (2019). Exploring the sustainability of quality improvement interventions in healthcare organisations: a multiple methods study of the ten-year impact of the ‘Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care’ programme in English acute hospitals. BMJ Quality & Safety, doi 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-009457.

Sarre, S., Maben, J., Griffiths, P., Chable, R. and Robert, G. (2019). The 10-year impact of a ward-level quality improvement intervention in acute hospitals: a multiple methods study. Health Serv Deliv Res, 7(28) 

Stomski, N., Morrison, P., Maben J., Amorin-Woods, L., Ardakani, E. and Theroux, J.  (2019). The adoption of person-centred care in chiropractic practice and its effect on non-specific spinal pain: an observational study. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 44, pp. 56-60.

Banks, C.A. (2019). Care in the 21st century: what can mainstream services learn from the Camphill movement? Alliance for Camphill.

Banks, C.A. (2019). Analysing Ethnographic Research Methods: The Importance of Retaining Immersion During the Analytic Process Using Research From UK-Based Learning Disability Social Care Settings. SAGE Research Methods datasets.

Cusack, L. Wiechula, R. Schultz, T. Dollard, J. & Maben J. (2019). Anticipated advantages and disadvantages of a move to 100% single room hospital in Australia: a case study. Journal of Nursing Management. [Epub ahead of print] DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12753.