Prior to taking up the post of Staff Tutor with The Open University in Jan 2020, I was a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health for over 10 years working predominantly within nursing programmes, but also teaching mental health theory and skills to GP's, student Paramedics and trainee Physician Associates.
My broad areas of interest within HE are curriculum design and development, practice based learning and the impact of organisational culture on student learning. I have a particular interest in liminality, professional socialisation, transition and threshold concepts in mental health nurse education, and also closely follow developments in military psychological trauma, working with psychosis and student mental health.
As a practitioner I worked in a number of clinical roles for over 15 years- treating veterans suffering with psychological injury, working within an intensive psychiatric rehabilitation service and working in acute in-patient psychiatry.
I have a MA in Education by Negotiated Learning (Distinction), (PGCE, PGDip Health and Social Care Education route), a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, and I am a Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Liminality, professional socialisation, transition and threshold concepts in mental health nurse education.
Salutogenesis
Service User and Carer inclusion in nurse education
Reflexivity in practice
Supporting staff working with death and dying
I am a member of Open Thanatology Research Group
Evidence based practice
Practice learning - developing reflexivity
Complex mental health
Occupational psychological inury
Clinical decision making
Leadership
Publications
Claire A. Evans, Peter Kevern (2015) Liminality in preregistration mental health nurse education: A review of the literature, Nurse Education in Practice, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 1-6