Staff profiles
Professor Frances Gordon
PhD M.Ed RN RNT RCNT
Phone 0114 225 5499
E-mail f.gordon@shu.ac.uk
Frances Gordon joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2002 and is a nurse by professional background. She completed her Master of Education degree in 1990 at the University of Aberdeen and was awarded a research fellowship by the National Board for Scotland for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting to undertake doctoral studies completing her PhD, again from the University of Aberdeen, in 2000.
Frances worked in nurse education in Scotland for a large part of her career, but before being appointed by Sheffield Hallam University, was a Principal Lecturer at Middlesex University in London for five years. She was responsible for all aspects of the management, research and development of practice and work-based learning in that post and gained considerable experience leading several initiatives in this area. Presently, at Sheffield Hallam University she is Head of Interprofessional and Multidisciplinary Learning and Director of the Centre for Interprofessional eLearning (CIPeL), a collaborative initiative with Coventry University and one of Sheffield Hallam's three Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
The HEFCE funding for the CIPeL initiative was awarded through evidence of excellence based in part on Frances's work as Director of the UK Department of Health funded Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit (CUILU) which was one of four national leading edge sites for interprofessional learning: a partnership project between Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield. This work encompassed several work streams exploring the interprofessional learning and collaborative working agenda and its findings underpin the developments in educating for collaborative working in health and social care in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing. Frances has gained a national and international reputation in the field of interprofessional education in health and social care. Inter-agency and cross disciplinary working is a growing field that extends beyond the boundaries of health and social care into more general issues of wellbeing in the public health arena, and this will be the focus of Frances's future work.
Doctoral students
Frances welcomes students interested in interprofessional/collaborative practice in the workforce and in educational settings. As a nurse whose own master's and doctoral work was around nursing culture and professional roles, she also welcomes students who would like to undertake research in the area of professional roles and health service culture. She is able to support students using qualitative approaches.
Frances' completed doctoral students include
- DProf Lorna Bennet - The Development of Haemoglobinopathy Practice Guidelines for Community Nursing Staff in Camden and Islington
- PhD Fanny Costa D'Sa - Experiencing a first surgical consultation: patients' interaction in an outpatients clinic
Frances is currently supervising
- Patricia Foster (DOS) - Professional doctorate students' stories of experiential learning: a discourse analysis
- Karen Stasi (DOS) - Academic staff experience of being involved in delivering interprofessional e-Learning
- Beth Murray-Davis (2nd supervisor) - The influence of pre-qualification interprofessional education on the professional practice of midwives
- Henry Mulenga (DOS) - 'Medical and Midwifery Staff perceptions of the Hospital at Night system in an NHS Hospital
- Christine Cooper (2nd supervisor) - Supporting culture in a higher education staff team: an action research project
Research outputs: key publications since 2001
McClimens , A. Gordon, F. (2008) Presentation of Self in E-veryday Life: How People Labelled with Intellectual Disability Manage Identity as They Engage the Blogosphere, Sociological Research Online, Volume 13, Issue 4.
Gordon F (2006) Book Review: The Case for Interprofessional Collaboration in Health and Social Care by Meads and Ashcroft Blackwell Science and CAIPE. Learning in Health and Social Care Issue 5 (in press)
Gordon F, Marshall M, Ryan A. (2006) An Evaluation of the Education and Training to Support the Implementation of the Single Assessment Process. Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield IBSN 1 84387 241 2
Gordon F, Walsh C. (2005) A Framework for Interprofessional Capability: developing students of health and social care as collaborative workers. Journal of Integrated Care 13 (3) 26-33
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2005) Good Practice Guidelines for Patient and Service User Participation in Teaching and Assessing. Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield.
Walsh C, Gordon F, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2005) Interprofessional Capability: A developing framework for interprofessional education Nurse Education in Practice, Volume 5, Issue 4: 230-237
Gordon F (ed), Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2005) The Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit: Summary Report. Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield. IBSN 1843871424
Gordon F, Ward K. (2005) Making it real: interprofessional teaching strategies in practice Journal of Integrated Care 13 (5) 42-47
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2005) The Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit: Final Report. Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield. ISBN 1 84 387 2188
Gordon F, Kay C, Marshall M, Walsh C Wilson F, Hunt T (2005) Using the Simulation Suite for Interprofessional Learning, Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Newsletter no.7 January 2005
Cook S. Gordon MF. (2004) Teaching Qualitative Research: a metaphorical approach Journal of Advanced Nursing 47 (6)649-655
Gordon F, Kay C, Marshall M, Walsh C, Wilson F, Hunt T (2004) CUILU Interprofessional Learning Unit - News, Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Newsletter no.4 February 2004
Gordon F, Kay C, Marshall M, Walsh C, Wilson F, Hunt T (2004) CUILU - Promoting a Positive Environment for Interprofessional Learning, Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Newsletter no.5 May 2004
Gordon F, Kay C, Marshall M, Walsh C Wilson F, Hunt T (2004) The CUILU Interprofessional Capability Framework and Learning Environment Audit Tool, Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Newsletter no.6 September 2004
Gordon, F. (2004) The CUILU Interprofessional Capability Framework, available on the Learning and Teaching Support Network website at www.health.ltsn.ac.uk/news-events/newsbox/cuilu
Gordon, F. (2004) Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit Capability Framework for Interprofessional Education, Centre for Health Sciences and Practice Newsletter LTSN No 13 Autumn 2004
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2004). Developing interprofessional capability in students of health and social care - the role of practice-based learning, Journal of Integrated Care 12 (4) 12-18
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2004) Involving patients and service users in student learning: developing practice and principles, Journal of Integrated Care 12 (6) 28-35
Marshall M, Gordon F, Walsh C, Wilson F, Hunt T (2004) Interprofessional Mentorship: taking on the challenge, Journal of Integrated Care 13 (2) 38-43
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F, Hunt T (2004) Interprofessional Capability Framework: a working document. Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield.
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F (2003). Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit. University of Sheffield Research Bulletin Vol 4(12).
Conference presentations
McClimens, A. Gordon, F. 'Blogging with an intellectual disability: identity management on and off line', a paper presented at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability Congress, Cape Town, S.A. August 2008
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F (2003) Development of a capability based interprofessional-learning portfolio. Proceedings of Collaborative Conversations Conference, University of Bournemouth p44
Gordon F, Walsh C, Marshall M, Wilson F (2003) Working Together for Interprofessional Learning: a Combined Universities Project. Proceedings of LTSN Festival of Learning University of Edinburgh Spring 2003 Newsletter No8
Gordon MF (2003) Being a Professional Friend: the nurse-patient relationship in promoting health Proceedings of Healthy Lifestyle in the 21st Century International Conference, Medical Academy, Lublin, Poland.
Gordon MF Kiger AM (2003) Judging the Moment: hospital nurses' health promotion interventions Proceedings of Healthy Lifestyle in the 21st Century International Conference, Medical Academy, Lublin, Poland.
Book chapters
Gordon MF (2003) Personal Hygiene in BA Workman and CL Bennett Key Nursing Skills London. Whurr
Gordon MF (2003) Preventing the Complications of Bedrest in BA Workman and CL Bennett Key Nursing Skills London. Whurr
External activities
- External Examiner Nursing Programmes University of Abertay Dundee (2002 - 2006)
- External Examiner MSc/PGDip/PGCert in Nursing/Midwifery/Healthcare Programme at University of Aberdeen
- Reviewer Journal of Interprofessional Care
- Reviewer International Journal of Nursing Studies
- Member editorial board Journal of Nurse Education in Practice
- Member of Regulation and Quality Assurance Working Group. Creating a Interprofessional Workforce (CIPW) commissioned by Department of Health.
- Consultancy interprofessional research and development issues
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