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Staff Profile Dr. Joyce E. Wilkinson

Name:

Joyce E. Wilkinson

Position:

Research Fellow

Email:

Location:

Fron Heulog, Bangor

Phone:

01248 383143

Joyce is a research fellow on the SDO funded project, evaluating the impacts of the processes of knowledge translation in the CLAHRCs (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) having undertaken other evaluations of evidence use and implementation processes in healthcare. She has a varied research background including working on projects relating to health and homelessness, teenage pregnancy and lifestyle but more recently her research has focused on evidence-based practice implementation and knowledge translation and wider quality improvement in health care including organisational learning. She has been a lecturer in clinical governance and evidence-based practice. She has also been involved with SIGN guideline and national nursing best practice statement development in Scotland and has acted as an expert advisor to the (Scottish) national nursing and midwifery practice development unit.


Joyce is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews linked to both the Social Dimensions of Health Institute (SDHI) with the University of Dundee and the Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU) with the University of Edinburgh.


Qualifications/Professional Roles

PhD, BA (Nursing Studies), Diploma in Clinical & Pastoral Counselling.
RSCN, RGN, RHV (Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing)
Member of the international expert reference group for both the mental health and community nodes of the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence-Based Practice.
Queens Nursing Institute for Scotland: Assessor of fellowship by assessment (FBA) award for community nurses and former chair of the development and steering group for FBA.

Grant income

Independent evaluation of the impact of the introduction of the Joanna Briggs Institute tools and resources for EBP to NHS Scotland. J.E. Wilkinson; H.T.O Davies & D.Baldie. £45,000; NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.

Recent or significant publications

Wilkinson, J.E, Powell, A. & Davies, H. (2011) Evidence: Are clinicians engaged in quality improvement? London, The Health Foundation

Wilkinson, J.E., Wimpenny, P. & Johnson, N. (2010) Models and Approaches to Inform the Impacts of Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice. Eds. Debra Bick & Ian Graham. Oxford, Wiley Blackwell.

Wilkinson, J.E. (2010) Research impact- hard hitting or subtle change? World Views on Evidence-Based Nursing.7(1): 1-3.

Wilkinson J.E. ,Powell, A., Davies, H.T.O (2010) Clinicians’ views of engagement with quality improvement: an updated narrative review. London, The Health Foundation.