Fiona Mccandless-Sugg

Contact

• workCentre for Training and Education, Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield
  Mansfield Education Centre
  King's Mill Hospital
  Mansfield Road
  Sutton-in-Ashfield
  Nottinghamshire
  NG17 4JL
  UK
• work01623 465 608
• fiona.mccandless-sugg@nottingham.ac.uk

Teaching Summary

Rotational module leader for B72M19/B72M20 Module Leader for B72S15/16 Contribute to MNSci mental health Modules Disability awareness for mentors Dissertation supervisor - BSc and… read more

Research Summary

• Dyslexia and nursing (Education and Practice)
• Diversity and Equality
• Nurse Education

Recent Publications

• SANDERSON-MANN, J. and MCCANDLESS, F., 2006. Understanding dyslexia and nurse education in the clinical setting Nurse Education in Practice. VOL 6(NUMBER 3), 127-133
• SANDERSON-MANN, J. and MCCANDLESS, F., 2005. Guidelines to the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) 2001 with regard to nurse education and dyslexia Nurse Education Today. VOL 25(NUMBER 7), 542-549
• MCCANDLESS, F., 2004. Madness explained: Psychosis and human nature Nurse Education Today. VOL 24(NUMBER 1), 66-67
• MCCANDLESS, FIONA and SLADEN, CLAIRE, 2003. Sexual health and women with bipolar disorder. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 44(1), 42-8

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• Personal tutor - pre-registration Diploma/BSc
• Mansfield Centre Disability Liaison Officer (DLO)
• Chair - North Notts Independent Sector Practice Learning Team
• DLO representative - Extenuating Circumstances group

• Other responsibilities

  • Reviewer for Journal of Advanced Nursing, Nurse Education Today, and Nurse Education in Practice.

• Rotational module leader for B72M19/B72M20
• Module Leader for B72S15/16
• Contribute to MNSci mental health Modules
• Disability awareness for mentors
• Dissertation supervisor - BSc and MNSci

• SANDERSON-MANN, J. and MCCANDLESS, F., 2006. Understanding dyslexia and nurse education in the clinical setting Nurse Education in Practice. VOL 6(NUMBER 3), 127-133
• SANDERSON-MANN, J. and MCCANDLESS, F., 2005. Guidelines to the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) 2001 with regard to nurse education and dyslexia Nurse Education Today. VOL 25(NUMBER 7), 542-549
• MCCANDLESS, F., 2004. Madness explained: Psychosis and human nature Nurse Education Today. VOL 24(NUMBER 1), 66-67
• MCCANDLESS, FIONA and SLADEN, CLAIRE, 2003. Sexual health and women with bipolar disorder. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 44(1), 42-8
• BENNETT, P., SEGURADO, R., JONES, I., BORT, S., MCCANDLESS, F., LAMBERT, D., HERON, J., COMERFORD, C., MIDDLE, F., CORVIN, A., PELIOS, G., KIROV, G., LARSEN, B., MULCAHY, T., WILLIAMS, N., O'CONNELL, R., O'MAHONY, E., PAYNE, A., OWEN, M., HOLMANS, P., CRADDOCK, N. and GILL, M., 2002. The Wellcome trust UK-Irish bipolar affective disorder sibling-pair genome screen: first stage report Molecular Psychiatry. 7(2), 189-200
• JONES, I., SCOURFIELD, J., MCCANDLESS, F. and CRADDOCK, N., 2002. Attitudes towards future testing for bipolar disorder susceptibility genes: a preliminary investigation Journal of Affective Disorders. 71(1-3), 189-193
• O'MAHONEY, E., CORVIN, A., O CONNELL, R.O., COMERFORD, C., LARSEN, B., JONES, I.R., MCCANDLESS, F., KIROV, G., CARDNO, A.G. and CRADDOCK, N. GILL, M., 2002. Sibling pairs with affective disorders: resemblance of demographic and clinical features Psychological Medicine. 32(1), 55-61
• ELVIDGE, G., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., ASHERSON, P., OWEN, M. J. and CRADDOCK, N., 2001. Allelic variation of a <i>Bal</i>I polymorphism in the DRD3 gene does not influence susceptibility to bipolar disorder: results of analysis and meta-analysis American Journal of Medical Genetics. 105(4), 307-311
• JACOBSEN, N. J., FRANKS, E. K., ELVIDGE, G., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., O DONOVAN, M. C., OWEN, M. J. and CRADDOCK, N., 2001. Exclusion of the Darier's disease gene, ATP2A2, as a common susceptibility gene for bipolar disorder Molecular Psychiatry. VOL 6(PART 1), 92-97
• AUSTIN, J., HOOGENDOORN, B., BUCKLAND, P., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., WILLIAMS, N., MIDDLE, F., OWEN, M. J., CRADDOCK, N. and O'DONOVAN, M. C., 2000. Association analysis of the proneurotensin gene and bipolar disorder Psychiatric Genetics. VOL 10(PART 1), 51-54
• BOWEN, T., ASHWORTH, L., KIROV, G., GUY, C. A., JONES, I. R., MCCANDLESS, F., CRADDOCK, N., O DONOVAN, M. C. and OWEN, M. J., 2000. No evidence of association from transmission disequilibrium analysis of the hKCa3 gene in bipolar disorder Bipolar Disorders. VOL 2(ISSU 4), 328-331
• KIROV, G., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., CRADDOCK, N. and OWEN, M. J., 1999. Family-based association studies of bipolar disorder with candidate genes involved in dopamine neurotransmission: DBH, DAT1, COMT, DRD2, DRD3 and DRD5 Molecular Psychiatry. VOL 4(NUMBER 6), 558-565
• GUY, C A, BOWEN, T, WILLIAMS, N, JONES, I R, MCCANDLESS, F, MCGUFFIN, P, OWEN, M J, CRADDOCK, N and O'DONOVAN, M C, 1999. No association between a polymorphic CAG repeat in the human potassium channel gene hKCa3 and bipolar disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 88(1), 57-60
• GUY, C A, BOWEN, T, JONES, I, MCCANDLESS, F, OWEN, M J, CRADDOCK, N and O'DONOVAN, M C, 1999. CTG18.1 and ERDA-1 CAG/CTG repeat size in bipolar disorder. Neurobiology of Disease. 6(4), 302-7
• KIROV, G., REES, M., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., OWEN, M... and CRADDOCK, N., 1999. Bipolar disorder and the serotonin transporter gene: a family based association study Psychological Medicine. 29, 1249-1254
• CARDNO, A G, MCCANDLESS, F, BOWEN, T, GUY, C A, JONES, L A, MURPHY, K C, MCGUFFIN, P, OWEN, M J, CRADDOCK, N and O'DONOVAN, M C, 1998. Association between functional psychosis and expanded CAG/CTG repeats is not explained by health stratification. Psychiatric Genetics. 8(1), 29-32
• KIROV, G., MURPHY, K.C., ARRANZ, M.J., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., KUNUGI, H., MURRAY, R..., MCGUFFIN, P., COLLIER, D.A., OWEN, M.J. and CRADDOCK, N., 1998. Low-activity allele of catechol-o-methyltransferase gene associated with rapid cycling bipolar disorder Molecular Psychiatry. 3, 342-345
• MCCANDLESS, F, JONES, I, HARPER, K and CRADDOCK, N, 1998. Intrafamilial association of pericentric inversion of chromosome 9, inv (9)(p11-q21), and rapid cycling bipolar disorder. Psychiatric Genetics. 8(4), 259-62
• REES, M., NORTON, N., JONES, I., MCCANDLESS, F., SCOURFIELD, J., HOLMANS, P., MOORHEAD, S., FELDMAN, E. and SADLER, S., 1997. Association studies of bipolar disorder at the human serotonin transporter gene (hSERT; 5HTT) Molecular Psychiatry. VOL 2(NUMBER 5), 398-402