Andrew Walsh

Senior Lecturer

Email:: andrew.walsh@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: 0121 331 7188

Andrew qualified as a mental health nurse in 1982. Before coming to BCU he worked in a range of mental health care settings such as acute mental health care and the mental health of older people. He was a ward manager, a Community Psychiatric Nurse and he also worked in primary care within South Birmingham.

Andrew studied for his BSc in Mental Health Nursing and a Masters Degree in Education at BCU before completing his EdD at the University of Birmingham. Andrew is interested in health promotion, the therapeutic relationship and empathy and he is actively involved in health care research within local mental health services.

Andrew organises the annual Mental Health Nursing Pre-Registration Mental Health Nursing Conference at Birmingham City University's City South Campus.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Bawadi, H. A. Al-Hamdan, Z. M. Nabolsi, M. Abu-Moghli, F. Zumot, A. Walsh, A (2019). "Jordanian Nursing Student and Instructor Perceptions of the Clinical Learning Environment." International Journal of Nurse Education Scholars 16(1)

Clarke V. and Walsh A. Editors (2009), Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Jenkins, C. and Walsh, A. (2011) Use of Blended E-Learning Resources in Higher Education: An Innovation From Health Care Training. Chapter in Wankel, C.; Law, J.S (ed) (2011) Streaming Media in Higher Education, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Mackenzie, N. and Walsh, A. (2009) Enhancing the Curriculum: Shareable Multimedia Learning Objects Journal of Systems and Information Technology Vol 11(1) pp 71 – 83.

Walsh, A. (2015) The effect of social interaction on mental health nurse student learning. Nurse Education in Practice, 15, 7-12

Walsh, A (2015) Are new mental health nurses prepared for practice? Mental Health Review Journal, 20, 2, 2015

Recent Conferences

Armstrong, T. Dakka, F. Walsh, A. (2019) Space, Time and Everyday Life and the Mental Health and Well-Being of Postgraduate Researchers. Society for Research into Higher Education, Annual Research Conference,11-13th December 2019, Celtic Manor, Newport, South Wales.

Cui, V. Geary, S. O'Leary, M. Pressick, I. Turville, N. Walsh, A. (2018) Improving learning through student-staff collaborative observation. CAN 2018: Championing student-staff partnership in an age of change: University of Winchester

Walsh, A. (2018), Family perceptions about the needs of people with enduring mental health problems within an in-patient setting Horatio European 10-12th May 2018 Faroe Islands Conference

Walsh, A. (2016) Using a Community of Practice approach to understand collaborative knowledge development amongst mental health nurse students and practitioners 5th Conference on Nursing Research of Ibero-American and Portuguese-Speaking Countries. 6th -8th June 2016: Nursing School of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal