Ben is a Reader in Mental Health Nursing, Cardiff University.
Research Interests:
Ben uses social scientific ideas to underpin the analysis of mental health systems. Specifically, he is interested in these interrelated areas: policy; service organisation and delivery; work, roles and values; the characteristics and wellbeing of the workforce; practitioner education; and the experiences of users.
Relevant publications:
Coffey M. and Hannigan B. (in press) New roles for nurses as approved mental health professionals in England and Wales: a discussion paper. International Journal of Nursing Studies
Hannigan B. (in press) ‘There’s a lot of tasks that can be done by any’: findings from an ethnographic study into work and organisation in UK community crisis resolution and home treatment services. Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Hannigan B. and Evans N. (in press) Critical junctures in health and social care: service user experiences, work and system connections. Social Theory & Health
Hannigan B. (2013) Connections and consequences in complex systems: insights from a case study of the emergence and local impact of crisis resolution and home treatment services. Social Science & Medicine 93 212-219
Hannigan B. and Allen D. (2013) Complex caring trajectories in community mental health: contingencies, divisions of labor and care coordination. Community Mental Health Journal 49 (4) 380-388
Hannigan B. and Allen D. (2011) Giving a fig about roles: policy, context and work in community mental health care. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 18 (1) 1-8
Hannigan B. and Coffey M. (2011) Where the wicked problems are: the case of mental health. Health Policy 101 (3) 220-227
Edwards D., Burnard P., Hannigan B., Cooper L., Adams J., Jugessur T., Fothergill A. and Coyle D. (2006) Clinical supervision and burnout: the influence of clinical supervision for community mental health nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing 15 (8) 1007-1015
Hannigan B. and Allen D. (2006) Complexity and change in the United Kingdom’s system of mental health care. Social Theory & Health 4 (3) 244-263
Edwards D., Burnard P., Hannigan B., Cooper L., Adams J., Jugessur T., Fothergill A. and Coyle D. (2005) Factors influencing the effectiveness of clinical supervision. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 12 (4) 405-414
Hannigan B., Edwards D. and Burnard P. (2004) Stress and stress management in clinical psychology: findings from a systematic review. Journal of Mental Health 13 (3) 235-245
Edwards D., Burnard P., Coyle D., Fothergill A. and Hannigan B. (2000) Stress and burnout in community mental health nursing: a review of the literature. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 7 (1) 7-14
Hannigan B., Edwards D., Coyle D., Fothergill A. and Burnard P. (2000) Burnout in community mental health nurses: findings from the all-Wales stress study. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 7 (2) 127-134
Funding:
National Institute for Health Research Health Services & Delivery Research Programme, 2013: An evidence synthesis of risk identification, assessment and management for young people using tier 4 inpatient child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) (with Nicola Evans, Deborah Edwards, Steven Pryjmachuk, Gemma Trainor, Elizabeth Gillen and Mirella Longo)
National Institute for Health Research Health Services & Delivery Research Programme, 2012: Cross-national comparative study of recovery-focused mental health care planning and coordination (with Alan Simpson (Chief Investigator), Michael Coffey, Alison Faulkner, Aled Jones and Jitka Jančová)
Research Capacity Building Collaboration Wales for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals (rcbcwales), 2006: Mental health services in transition: examining community crisis resolution and home treatment care (with Davina Allen)
Links to other websites:
Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies website:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/sonms/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/hannigan-ben-overview_new.html
Personal blog:
Google scholar:
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