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About me
Background
Having firstly trained as a mental health nurse and counsellor, I have taught mental health nursing for nearly two decades at the University of Nottingham where I now hold an Honorary position.
I have developed and researched approaches in Arts and Health for about 20 years. My other main area of research and practice has been the role of the public in the education of mental health professionals.
I have an h-index of 34. My RG Score can be found here
I have supervised 11 PhD students, brought 7 to completion, currently supervise 1 and externally examined 14. I have 140 publications and spoken at 49 international conferences.
Having taken early retirement, I continue to work as an independent academic consultant, examine PhDs and volunteer as a befriender to people seeking asylum and refugees. I also work as an NHS Volunteer Responder.
Roles and memberships
- Deputy Editor of Perspectives in Public Health. With an Impact Factor of 4.07, this is one of the journals in the Royal Society for Public Health stable. Having already edited special issues on the arts and health as well as mental health I will continue to maintain these special interests in Perspectives.
- Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of the Royal Society for Public Health
Grants and Awards
- 2004 - £265,000 to set up community-based arts programmes in Nottingham City in collaboration with City Arts (funded by New Deal for Communities). The Arts on Prescription programme flourished until 2014.
- 2004 - £35,000 to develop an action research project to facilitate a user-led programme of teaching for mental health nursing students (The University of Nottingham)
- 2005-2009 - £100,000 for Arts development in Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, this was in collaboration with the Trust's Arts Coordinator, Penny Coulson
- 2005- £53,235 - Service User Student Assessment action research project. (Burdett Trust for Nursing)
- 2007-2009 - £19,000 - Open to All. The development of mental health awareness training for museums and galleries. National Social Inclusion Programme, in partnership with Museum Libraries and Archives Council, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Wallace Collection and subsequent "Training for Trainers", for museums and galleries. (National Social Inclusion Programme).
- 2006-2012 - £74,000 Various funders for local Arts and Health evaluations and small research projects
- 2012 - £15,000 Arts, Health & Wellbeing Seminar Series (Economic and Social Research Council)
- 2013 - €365,481 e-Menthe A collaboration between five European countries to develop Master´s level eLearning materials in mental health. (ERASMUS, Life-long Learning).
- 2017 - €250,000. - Arts & Social Change. A collaboration between four European countries to develop training for healthcare workers (ERASMUS, Life-long Learning).
- 2020 - £7,500 Access Arts for Refugee Roots. (Arts Council England).
Projects
Nottingham People's Choir has now ceased
In 2013, I set up the Nottingham People's Choir, with the support of the Institute of Mental Health. The choir (which is going from strength to strength) meets most Thursdays at 1.00pm in the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham City Centre. Do contact me if you would like any further information. One highlight for the choir in 2015 was singing with the Jocelyn Pook Ensemble in the Anxiety Fanfare. Follow this link to see the entire performance at King's Place in London. In 2019 we collaborated collaborating with the Royal Shakespeare Company on our own production of Romeo and Juliet! Read more about the Choir and see a very short video documentary about this project here. Unfortunately, due to the COVID crisis, the Choir has now ceased meeting and performing.
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REFUGEE ROOTS
Now I have taken early retirement from the University of Nottingham, I am able to work one day per week with Refugee Roots, a small charity based in Nottingham working with people seeking asylum and refugees. You can read about the charity on the website here.
recent Publications
Limited to the last three years
Please email me if you would like a PDF copy of any of my articles.
2020
STICKLEY, T., MAZLOUMI, G., WEIGHTMAN, J., CHARLES, A and WATSON, M C. (2020). What school-age children think about mental health: a Salutogenic public consultation survey. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. DOI: 10.1080/14635240.2020.1855598
GISCOMBE, T, HUI, A & STICKLEY T (2020). Perinatal mental health amongst refugee and asylum-seeking women in the UK. Mental Health Review Journal. 25 (3), 241-253.
HUSSAIN, B., SHEIKH, A., TIMMONS, S., STICKLEY, T., & REPPER, J. (2020). Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 1470595820938412.
JENSEN A, TORRISSEN W and STICKLEY T. 2020. Arts and public mental health: exemplars from Scandinavia. Public Health Panorama (WHO). 6 (1), 193-210 (English and Russian)
2019
ADAMS C and STICKLEY T. 2019. Participatory arts for people using substances: A rapid review of the literature. Nordic Journal of Arts, Health & Culture. 1 (1), 47-59
TORRISSEN W and STICKLEY T. 2019. Acting for mental health: A critical narrative analysis of one person’s recovery process. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10(1), 57-71.
STICKLEY T, HUI A, STUBLEY M, BAKER F and WATSON M C, 2019. “Write Here, Sanctuary” Creative writing for refugees and people seeking asylum. Arts & Health, An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice. 11(3), 246-263
HUI A, STICKLEY T, STUBLEY M and BAKER F, 2019. Project eARTh: Participatory arts and mental health recovery, a qualitative study. Perspectives in Public Health. 139(6), 296-302.
2018
DOYLE L, ELLILÄ H, JORMFELDT H, LAHTI M, HIGGINS A, KEOGH B, MEADE O, SITVAST J, SKÄRSÄTER I, STICKLEY T and KILKKU N, 2018. Preparing master-level mental health nurses to work within a wellness paradigm: Findings from the eMenthe project International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 27(2), 823-832
TORRISSEN W and STICKLEY T, 2018. Participatory theatre and mental health recovery: a narrative inquiry. Perspectives in Public Health. 138(1), 47-54
STICKLEY T, WRIGHT N and SLADE M, 2018. The art of recovery: outcomes from participatory arts activities for people using mental health services Journal of Mental Health. 27, 367-373
LAHTI M, ELLILÄ H, JORMFELDT H, SKÄRSÄTER I, DOYLE L, HIGGINS A, KEOGH B, MEADE O, STICKLEY T, SITVAST J and KILKKU N, 2018. The required knowledge for lifespan mental health promotion and prevention for Master’s level mental health nurse education – the eMenthe project. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.
STICKLEY T, 2018. Arts, health and wellbeing: a public health approach whose time has come (Editorial) Perspectives in Public Health. 138(1), 3-4
SAYERS T and STICKLEY T, 2018. Participatory Arts, Recovery and Social Inclusion Mental Health and Social Inclusion. 22 Issue: 3, pp.149-156
STICKLEY T and FRESHWATER D, 2018. Emotional Intelligence for Health Care Professions – Professional Compathy. In: LORRAINE DACRE POOL and PAMELA QUALTER, eds., An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence Wiley. 149-160
SKÄRSÄTER I, KEOGH B, DOYLE L, ELLILÄ H, JORMFELDT H, LAHTI M, HIGGINS A, MEADE O, SITVAST J, STICKLEY T and KILKKU N, 2018. Advancing the knowledge, skills and attitudes of mental health nurses working with families and caregivers: A critical review of the literature Nurse Education in Practice. 32, 138-146
JORMFELDT H, DOYLE L, ELLILA H, HIGGINS A, KEOGH B, MEADE O, STICKLEY T, SKARSATER I and KILKKU N, 2018. Master’s level mental health nursing competencies, a prerequisite for equal health among service users in mental health care International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. 13 (sup1), 1502013.