Mark Pearson

Contact

• workRoom B318 South Block
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• Mark.Pearson@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Mark Pearson (RNMH, NMP, BIA, MSc, PGCHE, SFHEA, PhD) is Assistant Professor of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham. Mark is the leads modules on research dissertation, public mental health, and narratives, literature and health.

Mark is the Co-lead for the 'Surviving by storytelling' managed innovation network established at the Institute of mental health. This project aims to explore and promote the therapeutic quality of poetry in relation to mental health.

Mark's recent research has been in the field of health humanities and has recently focused on exploring the therapeutic potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery for those who have experienced what might be described as psychosis.

Clinical roles have covered both inpatient and community adult mental health services, the majority of this clinical career was spent working as a community mental health nurse, specialist care coordinator and non-medical prescriber within community mental health services.

Recent Publications

• PEARSON, M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S, FOSTER, H and HOLLOWAY, A, 2024. Surviving by storytelling – a research through design exploration of online poetry and mental health workshops Journal of Poetry Therapy. 1-13
• PEARSON, M, 2024. The Poetic Wavelength—Tuning into the Meaningful Poetics of Psychosis. Journal of Medical Humanities.
• PEARSON, M, LONG, L, BAKER, C, DORAN, D and PRINGLE, A, 2024. “It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co-produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
• PEARSON, M and ADCOCK, S, 2024. Enhancing the use of Makaton in nurse education and practice. Nursing standard.

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• PEARSON, M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S, FOSTER, H and HOLLOWAY, A, 2024. Surviving by storytelling – a research through design exploration of online poetry and mental health workshops Journal of Poetry Therapy. 1-13
• PEARSON, M, 2024. The Poetic Wavelength—Tuning into the Meaningful Poetics of Psychosis. Journal of Medical Humanities.
• PEARSON, M, LONG, L, BAKER, C, DORAN, D and PRINGLE, A, 2024. “It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co-produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
• PEARSON, M and ADCOCK, S, 2024. Enhancing the use of Makaton in nurse education and practice. Nursing standard.
• PEARSON, M and FOSTER, H, 2024. Arts for Health: Creative Writing London: Emerald.
• LLOYD R, MUNRO J, EVANS K, GASKIN-WILLIAMS A, HUI A, PEARSON M, SLADE M, KOTERA Y, DAY G, LOUGHLIN-RIDLEY J, ENSTON C and RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, 2023. Health service improvement using positive patient feedback: systematic scoping review PLOS ONE. 18, e0275045
• MCCANDLISH, C and PEARSON, M, 2023. Tattoos as symbols – an exploration of the relationship between tattoos and mental health The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education, and Practice. 18(3), 217-227
• PEARSON, M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S and WINSHIP, G, 2023. The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis Nursing Philosophy. 24, e12418
• PEARSON, M, BARTEL, H, ALLSOPP, G and CRAWFORD, P_, 2022. Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of long covid through the medium of creative narratives Health Expectations. 25(6), 2950-2959
• PEARSON, M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S and WINSHIP, G, 2022. The poetic wavelength – a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis. Psychosis. 16(1), 40-51
• PEARSON, M, SIBSON, T and CARTER, T, 2021. A qualitative study of service users’ experiences of mental health nurses’ knowledge and skills in relation to medication. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 28, 682–691
• PEARSON, M, SUNDERLAND, L and HENDY, C, 2021. Open dialogue and co-production: Promoting a dialogical practice culture in the co-production of teaching and learning within nurse education. 16(5), 364-372
• PEARSON, M and PRINGLE, A, 2021. Men and Mental Health. In: KIRBY, R, CARSON, C, WHITE, A and KIRBY, M, G, eds., Men's Health London: CRC Press.
• CORRINE HENDY and MARK PEARSON, 2020. Peer supported open dialogue in a UK NHS trust – a qualitative exploration of clients’ and network members’ experiences The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice. 15(2), 95 - 103
• LAURA HOLLIDAY, TIMOTHY CARTER, HELEN REDDY, LOUISE CLARKE, MARK PEARSON and ANNE FELTON, 2020. Shared learning to improve the care for young people and mental health within nurse education (SHYNE). Improving attitudes, confidence and self-efficacy Nurse Education in Practice. 46,
• MARK PEARSON, STEFAN RENNICK-EGGLESTONE and GARY WINSHIP, 2020. How Can Poetry Support the Understanding of Psychotic Experiences? – A Conceptual Review Journal of Recovery in Mental Health. 3(1),
• GEMMA STACEY and MARK PEARSON, 2019. An inductive content analysis of formative feedback given by lived experience assessors in pre-registration mental health nurse education The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice. 1, 33-42
• STACEY, G. and PEARSON, M., 2018. Exploring the influence of feedback given by people with lived experience of mental distress on learning for preregistration mental health students. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
• PEARSON, M., T. CARTER, D. MCCORMICK AND N. WRIGHT, 2017. "Pharmacology training in mental health nurse education: Justification for an increase in frequency and depth in the UK." Nurse Education Today. 62, 36-38