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Stephen Timmons

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

I went to De Lisle School. I read Social and Political Sciences at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, and then went to the University of York to do an M.A. in the Sociology of Contemporary Culture. I worked in several parts of the NHS, and then went to the University of Glasgow to do an M.Sc. in Health Informatics. After that, I worked at Anglia Ruskin University.

Expertise Summary

Sociology of professions, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociology of health and illness

Teaching Summary

Sociology, philosophy, research methods, evidence-based practice

Research Summary

With Byrn Baxendale, Frank Coffey and Justin Waring I'm looking at the implementation of clinician-led human factors training in operating theatres and the ED.

Funded by the Resuscitation Council of the UK I'm investigating why organisations purchase AEDs.

With Russell Harrison-Paul and Stuart Nairn, I'm studying what lay people think about resuscitation guidelines.

With Catherine Vass and Mark Avis, I'm involved in the qualitative part of a larger study of the use of bed sensors in hospital (The REFINE trial)

With Frank Coffey, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, NUH Trust, I'm studying the implementation of 'lean' methods, derived from manufacturing, in the Emergency Department. With Paul Martin from Sociology, I have been awarded a grant from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness to extend this work.

With Aru Narayanasamy, Alison Edgley and Andy Meal, I'm looking at whether nursing can be characterised as a transdisciplinary disciplin

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Contact : May be found within my personal web site at the following address: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzst1/

Past Research

Completed Research Projects (Nottingham)

With Linda East, I did an evaluation of the new staff uniforms at the QMC

With Russell Harrison-Paul, I examined the implementation of Automatic External Defibrillation in a variety of organisations. This project was funded by the Resuscitation Council of the UK.We extended this work to interview people who have bought an AED to have at home (also funded by the Resuscitation Council of the UK).

With Alastair Morgan and Alison Edgley, I developed and evaluated a reader and podcasts to support the post-graduate Philosophy of Social Science module. This was funded by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.

With Heather Wharrad and colleagues from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Castle College, we looked at the use of RLOs across the HE, FE and NHS sectors. (Grant from the Eduserv Foundation.) The project website is here

With Aru Narayanasamy, I studied how the religious beliefs of students influence their construction of a professional identity.

With Alastair Morgan and Alison Edgley, I did a project funded by the University of Nottingham's Learning and Teaching Development Fund on what impact the post-graduate Philosophy of Social Science module had on post-graduate students' learning.

I developed and evaluated an e-learning resource to support the post-graduate Philosophy of Social Science module. If you're interested, it's here

With Alison Edgley, I studied student nurses' perceptions of the relevance of sociology.

I was awarded a grant by the University of Nottingham's Learning and Teaching Development Fund for a project on developing student dissertations into publications and programmes of research.The findings are now being implemented on the MNursSci and LBR BSc programmes

With Jacqueline Randle from the School of Nursing I did an evaluation of Clinical Placement Development Facilitators, on behalf of the Trent Workforce Development Confederation.

With Professor Nicky James, I evaluated the nurse transcribing project for Rushcliffe PCT

I studied for my Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Andrew Webster of the Science and Technology Studies Unit in the University of York, and Professor Ray Jack, the Open Learning Foundation Professor of Social Work at Anglia Ruskin University. Resistance to the Implementation of Information Systems by NHS Staff was a sociological study examining how and why computerised care planning systems are resisted by qualified nursing staff. This was a qualitative study, using in-depth interviews, analysed using QSR NUDIST software.

With David Justham from the School of Nursing, I researched the acceptablity and usefulness of an online statistics module and assessment using WebCT (Grant from the University of Nottingham), and this project has been developed further with funding from the School of Nursing

Earlier Research Projects

2000 Suffolk Health Authority: analysis of Health Improvement Programme. 1994-1995 St. Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Billericay: evaluation of information systems. 1993 Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Paisley: evaluation of information systems

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