Dr. James McMahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast (Belfast, UK). His research interests mainly include ehealth intervention, cardiovascular disease, physical activity, and behaviour change. His scientific output includes 4 publications, corresponding to 12 citations (h-index 1) (Scopus, 20 November 2023).
Dr. Patrick Stark is a lecturer and currently at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK. His research is focused on designing and evaluating educational interventions. Much of his recent work has focused on the care of older people. The thread through all of his research is applying an evidence-based and implementation science approach to developing education in a range of contexts. He is the module coordinator for the Evidence-Based Nursing module in Year 1 of the Professional Nursing (BSc) course. He teaches literature searching, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and an introduction to statistics for nurses. He is also the module coordinator for the Digital Literacy modules across Years 1, 2, and 3. He teaches across the Year 1 curriculum, including Public Health Perspectives, Caring Communication in Nursing, and Professionalism in Nursing. He regularly teaches evidence-based practice skills, evidence synthesis, literature searching, and research methods across a range of postgraduate and post-registration courses. He supervises master's research projects in both MSc and GEMS programmes. He is a personal tutor for Professional Nursing (BSc) students. He is involved in several scholarly projects around evidence-based and co-designed education, working actively with the Education and Practice research theme group to conduct pedagogical research alongside his teaching.
Professor Christine Brown Wilson is currently at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK. She is a registered nurse with an international research profile in ageing and dementia. Her methodological focus lies in participatory qualitative methodologies, including coproduction involving multiple stakeholders (older people, people with dementia, families, staff, and healthcare students) to improve healthcare education and practice. She also supports mixed-methods research and has experience in realist evaluation.
Dr. Silvia Gonella is a registered nurse and has worked as a clinical nurse in oncological and medical settings. She is currently responsible for research activities at the City Hospital of Health and Science of Turin, Italy. Silvia has a post-graduate specialization diploma in Bioethics and a Ph.D. in Nursing
Studies and Public Health. She has been part of multi-disciplinary, palliative care, national, and international research groups such as the Working Group for the ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline on Cancer Cachexia and the mySupport study, and she was a member of the Early Career Research Committee of this project. Her main research areas are end-of-life communication in nursing homes, symptom management in cancer patients, and improving nursing students’ clinical learning experiences.
Dr. Karolína Vlčková is a researcher at the Center for Palliative Care, a psychologist, and an assistant professor at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, UK. She studied psychology and social work at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague and received her doctorate in medical psychology at the 1st Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and worked on several research projects at the National Institute of Mental Health. Currently, she focuses on research into communication, psychological care for dying patients, and the mental health of health professionals. She also deals with the methodology and use of questionnaires, having adapted the IPOS and IPOS-r questionnaires and the moral injury questionnaire for medical professionals to the Czech environment. She also works as a psychologist at the Department of Palliative Care at Faculty Thomayer Hospital.
Dr Gary Mitchell is currently at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK. Gary has written more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in healthcare journals and presented at a range of international conferences. In his role as reader, he is responsible for teaching undergraduate/postgraduate nurses and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He holds the title of Queen’s Nurse and was awarded an MBE for services to nursing and dementia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours List.
