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

• 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

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• 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