Staff profiles
Cathy Hill
MSc, C. Psychol, BSc (Hons), PGDip, PGDip, PGCert
Phone 0114 225 3982
E-mail catherine.hill@shu.ac.uk
Cathy Hill is programme leader of the Professional Doctorate and academic delivery manager with responsibility for the MRes (Health and Society). She is currently on secondment with the Centre from her role as principal lecturer in the Centre for Professional and Organisation Development.
Before taking up her post at Sheffield Hallam University in 2002, Cathy had a varied career as, successively and sometimes simultaneously, an art therapist, psychotherapist, counselling psychologist and organisational psychologist.
She is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists and is a Chartered member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as well as having membership of the Health Professions Council and being a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Teaching interests
Since entering academia Cathy's main interest has been in the education of advanced professional health and social care practitioners
- Since 2006 Cathy has led the Professional Doctorate programme
- From 2005-2009 she led the MSc Health and Social Care Leadership
- Extensive MSc research methods and other teaching
- Supervision of MSc and doctoral students
- Cathy is the academic delivery manager for the Centre for Health and Social Care Research and advises on all accredited educational provision by the Centre
Cathy is active in developing the scope and definition of research and enquiry in the context of practice. She has a particular interest in enquiry which occurs in and for advanced level practice and which has effective action rather than published output as its main aim.
Research interests
Cathy's broader research and consultancy interests have focused on individual and organisational stress, counselling and mentoring, and emotional work.
She regularly develops and delivers bespoke leadership and professional effectiveness programmes for local NHS and Social Care organisations.
Recent work has also included development of mentoring skills within the Expert Patient programme.
Doctoral students
Completed doctoral students include
- Neil Pease - Implementing an Appraisal and Development Framework in Healthcare - an Action Research Study (2009)
Current students include
- Sue Bower - Taking risks with dementia: Exploring practitioner accounts of risks and decision making
- Chris Cooper - Using action research to develop the research culture of an academic nursing department
- Deb Wildgoose - A qualitative study of the accounts of service users receiving Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Henry Mulenga - Medical and Midwifery staff perceptions of the Hospital at Night in an NHS Hospital
Research outputs - key publications since 2001
Projects
Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF) project reviewing and developing types of Masters dissertation projects in health and social care subjects (2008)
Collaborative inter-professional project resolving tensions between the educational aims of Masters dissertation projects and ethical and governance requirements in healthcare settings (2008)
Team Leader Development Programme for Sheffield NHS Care Trust (2006-7)
Publications
Hill CJ (2009) Research, Design, Craft: exploring methodologies of enquiry in advanced professional practice. International Conference on Professional Doctorates. London, November 2009.
Hill CJ (2008) Ditching the Research Module. Enhancing Research in Teaching Conference. Sheffield Hallam University. May 2008.
Gerrish, Kate; Hill, Catherine; Mawson, Susan; Gerrish, Paul, (2008) A pragmatic approach to resolving tensions between the educational validity of Masters projects in health care settings and ethical and governance requirements. Learning in Health and Social Care. Vol 8:2. 123-134.
Hill, C.J. (2004) Emotions - the 3rd Dimension of Fertility and Reproduction work. Human Fertility, September 2004, 7(3): 163-167
Hill, C.J. (2003) To feel or not to feel - Emotions, the invisible third dimension of fertility and reproduction work. Fertility 2003 Conference. June, Aberdeen University.
Hill, C.J. (2002) Caring for others? Care for yourself - a self-help guide to understanding stress for health services staff. 'Improving Work Lives' publication, Community Health Sheffield NHS Trust.
