Dr Tina Hamilton

Tina is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing in Society and an Institute Head of Research Students in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. She has a background in psychology and completed her PhD in Adult Safeguarding and Mental Health at Staffordshire University. 

Prior to joining DMU, Tina was a research project lead at the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT) for five years. She was the research lead for the mental health stream of the national Safe Staffing initiative and led a number of evaluation/research projects at a local level. Her research spanned a number of areas, including: homelessness, acute inpatient care, the provision of integrated health and social care services, medicines optimisation and adult safeguarding.

She is currently exploring access to perinatal mental health services among migrant women living in the UK. Tina is engaged in collaborative research with colleagues internal and external to DMU. 

Tina has a broad range of research interests that focus on the use of theory and robust methods to improve the quality of mental healthcare. She is an experienced qualitative researcher with a particular interest in constructivist grounded theory. Her principle interests include patient / carer experience of receiving mental health services, the protection of mental health service users from abuse and neglect, and organizational behavior in relation to policy implementation.

Tina gained her postgraduate research supervision experience through the co-delivery of a clinical research secondment programme at MPFT. She supervises MSc, MRes and PhD students and in her role as IHRS, she chairs / examines annual and probation reviews and PhD Vivas.

Research Methods

Inter-professional Education

Psychological Theories of Health and Illness

PhD - Health Studies

PgCert – Higher and Professional Education

BSc (Hons) 1st Class - Psychology and Counselling

BSc (Hons) - Health and Wellbeing in Society

MSc - Global health

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (CPsychol)

NIHR Reviewer

Ad-Hoc Reviewer for Journal of Mental Health; Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing; Nurse Education in Practice

Current research projects include:

• Access to NHS perinatal mental health services: Identifying barriers and facilitators for first generation migrant women (ADRIFT Study).

Hamilton, T., Dempsey, R. & Bradley, E. (2022). Implementing adult safeguarding practices in NHS mental health services: challenges for leadership and service provision. Poster Presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Fanneran-Hamilton, T. & Rigby, S. (2017). Evaluating the role of the community matron with homelessness in the Stafford Borough. Poster Presentation at SSSFT Pride in our Practice EXPO, Stafford, UK.

Fanneran-Hamilton, T. & Bradley, E. (2017). Medicines optimisation and shared decision-making: exploring the role of non-medical prescribers in mental health services.  Poster Presentation at SSSFT Pride in our Practice EXPO, Stafford, UK.

McGrath, R., Alder, J, & Fanneran-Hamilton, T. (2017).  Attitudes towards risk assessment in forensic mental health.  Poster Presentation at SSSFT Pride in our Practice EXPO, Stafford, UK. (Prize Winner)

Fanneran, T., McNally, D., & Bradley, E. (2015). Developing a structured intervention for admission in acute mental-health. Oral Presentation at the meeting of The Midlands Health Psychology Network Conference 2015, Derby, UK.

McNally, D., Fanneran, T., & Bradley, E. (2015). Using a face-to-face Delphi method to reach stakeholder consensus regarding the development of a health care intervention. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Midlands Health Psychology Network Conference, Derby, United Kingdom.

Fanneran, T., Bradley, E., & McNally, D. (2015).  Developing a structured intervention within a shared-decision making and self-regulation framework, Poster session presented at the Psychology Health and Medicine Conference, Belfast, Ireland.

Fanneran, T. & McNally, D. (2014). Developing a structured intervention for admissions in acute mental health. Oral Presentation at SSSFT research dissemination seminars, Stafford.

Fanneran, T. (2013). Ensuring we have the right staff with the right skills in the right place: mental health and learning disabilities nursing.  National Webinar, SSSFT & HPFT.

Fanneran, T. (2013). A critical analysis of adult safeguarding practices in NHS mental health services: implications for practice and service provision. Inaugural Postgraduate Conference, Staffordshire University.

Fanneran, T. (2012).  Restructuring the NHS: exploring the implications for adult safeguarding research. Oral presentation at the PhD Workshop, University of Porto.

Kingston, P & Fanneran, T. (2012). Rethinking Asylums: elderly abuse and safeguarding in hospitals and the community.  Oral presentation at The Royal College of Psychiatrists annual residential meeting, Cardiff.

Fanneran, T., Kingston, P. & Bradley, E. (2012).  A critical analysis of adult safeguarding practices in NHS mental health services.  Poster presentation at The Royal College of Psychiatrists annual residential meeting, Cardiff.

Fanneran, T. (2012). Safeguarding vulnerable adults in NHS mental health services.  Researcher seminar at the Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University.

Fanneran, T. (2011).  My Journey: a PhD student’s reflection on the first six months of research. Oral presentation at the PhD Experience Conference, University of Hull.

Fanneran, T. (2011). Safeguarding vulnerable adults in mental health.  Oral presentation at the postgraduate training session, Wolverhampton PCT.

Fanneran, T., Kingston, P. & Bradley, E. (2011).  A critical analysis of adult safeguarding practices in NHS mental health services.  Poster presentation at the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) 13^th International Congress, Hague.

Fanneran-Hamilton, T., Bradley, E., McNally, D. (2017). Traversing the services: a constructivist grounded theory of admission in two adult acute mental health inpatient wards. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 4(1), p.53-60.

Green, D.J., Hofberg, K., Carr, C., Fanneran, T., Sumathipala, A. (2016). A 10-year history of perinatal care at the Brockington Mother and Baby Unit Stafford. Archive of Womens Mental Health, 19(3), p.507 – 513.

Fanneran, T., Brimblecombe, N., Bradley E. and Gregory, S. (2015). Using workload measurement tools in diverse care contexts: the experience of staff in mental health and learning disability settings. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 22, p.764 - 772

Fanneran, T.B., Kingston, P. & Bradley, E.J. (2013).  A national survey of adult safeguarding in NHS mental health services in England and Wales. Journal of Mental Hea.lth,22 (5), p.402 – 411.

Mental Health Staffing Framework, NHS England (2015) – Contributing Author

Fanneran, T.B (2011).  The impact of the learning environment on student learning in higher education: a realist review.  Innovative Practice in Higher Education (IPiHE) online journal, 1 (2), Online.

Publications available on DORA

PhD

1. Philomena Imade-Omoregie Osagie, Part-time (2nd Supervisor)
2. Sarah Thrower, Part-time (2nd Supervisor)
3. Euguonor Adiotomre-Oleka, Part-time (2nd Supervisor)

MRes

1. Charlotte Attenborrow, Part-time (2nd Supervisor)

Admission and acute mental health: developing a structured intervention within a shared decision-making (SDM) and self-regulation framework. The Shelton Research Bequest Fund, 100k. 2013-2015. Project Lead. Completed.

Collaborators: Professor Eleanor Bradley (PI)

Ensuring we have the right staff with the right skills in the right place: mental health services. West Midlands Local Education and Training Council (LETC), 200k. 2013-2015. Research Lead. Completed.

Collaborators: Professor Neil Brimblecombe (PI), Steve Gregory, Professor Eleanor Bradley 

Case management and homelessness: increasing access to healthcare and housing services in the Stafford Borough. Rough Sleeping Grant Funding, DCLG, £5k of total cost awarded. 2017-2019. Research Lead. Completed.

Collaborators: Stafford Borough Council

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