Dr Nicola Clibbens

Joint Clinical Academic Associate Professor

Department: Nursing, Midwifery & Health

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Nicola has expertise in health services research focused on acute and crisis mental health. She has an interest in research focused on improving outcomes in community crisis care, development of interventions in crisis and intensive home treatment and imporving the experiences of people during a crisis and their family and friends.

Nicola is experienced with involving people with lived experience in developing research ideas and in delivering high quality studies as research partners.

Nicola works across Northumbria University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust to deliver high qaulity research and support the development of the nursing contribution to research. Nicola has engaged with a range of health, social care and voluntary sector partners to deliver research.

Nicola has expertise in realist methods, qualitative research, mixed method synthesis and evidence synthesis.

Key Publications

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Accurate reporting of maternal suicide data enables development of targeted suicide prevention interventions, Clibbens, N., Rebair, A. 12 Jun 2024, In: Evidence-based nursing
Implementation of the Chief Nursing Officer for England’s national strategy for nursing research in mental health service provider organisations: A survey and documentary analysis of nurse leadership roles and related strategies, Clibbens, N., Dickens, G., Green, J., Byrne, I., Black, C. 28 May 2024
Involving stakeholders with lived and professional experience in a realist review of community mental health crisis services: a commentary, Ashman, M., Clibbens, N., Thompson, J., Gilburt, H., Thompson, E., Khalid, Y. 18 Dec 2024, In: Research Involvement and Engagement
Mental health crises: how to improve care, Clibbens, N., Lloyd-Evans, B., Lamb, D. 22 Jul 2024
Mental Health Nurses' and Allied Health Professionals' Individual Research Capacity and Organizational Research Culture: A comparative study, Dickens, G., Avantaggiato-Quinn, M., Long, S., Schoultz, M., Clibbens, N. 13 May 2024, In: SAGE Open Nursing
Psychosocial care delivery in intensive home treatment during a mental health crisis: a qualitative thematic analysis, Clibbens, N., Close, A., Poxton, J., Davies, C., Geary, L., Dickens, G. 1 Dec 2024, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Explaining context, mechanism and outcome in adult community mental health crisis care: A realist evidence synthesis, Clibbens, N., Booth, A., Sharda, L., Baker, J., Thompson, J., Ashman, M., Berzins, K., Weich, S., Kendal, S. 1 Dec 2023, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Explanation of context, mechanisms and outcomes in adult community mental health crisis care: the MH-CREST realist evidence synthesis, Clibbens, N., Baker, J., Booth, A., Berzins, K., Ashman, M., Sharda, L., Thompson, J., Kendal, S., Weich, S. 11 Sep 2023, In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Primary care suicide screening: the importance of comprehensive clinical assessment, Clibbens, N. 1 Jan 2021, In: Evidence-based nursing
Caregivers’ experiences of service transitions in adult mental health: An integrative qualitative synthesis, Clibbens, N., Berzins, K., Baker, J. 17 Sep 2019, In: Health & Social Care in the Community

PGR Supervision

Elaine Robinson Accessing child development services: the experiences of parents living with mental distress. Start Date: 01/03/2023

Qualifications

Health PhD January 01 2011
Education MA September 01 1999
Social Studies/Science DipHE September 01 1995
Registered Nurse Mental Health RMN

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