Rosie Stenhouse (PhD RMN PGCertHET FHEA)
Lecturer; School Equality and Diversity Coordinator; Associate Director Centre for Creative Relational Inquiry

- Nursing Studies
- School of Health in Social Science
- Centre for Creative Relational Inquiry
Contact details
- Tel: +44 31 651 5160
- Email: Rosie.Stenhouse@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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School of Health in Social Science
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc (Soc.Sci-Nursing) in 1992 and as RMN I went on to work in the Third Sector for Body Positive, and service-user led organisation supporting people and families affected by HIV and AIDS. I went on to work in the Greater Manchester area in mental health rehabilitation and then as a community mental health nurse before returning to Scotland where I rejoined the university as a part-time teacher, undertaking my MSc (Research) part time and then gaining the Gardner Scholarship to complete my PhD studies as a full-time student all at the University of Edinburgh. Following completion of my PhD I gained a full-time lecturing post at Abertay University, Dundee where I led the mental health nursing programme before returning to a lecturer post here in Nursing Studies in 2013.
My teaching portfolio is focused on mental health and on professional issues. I have a strong interest in learning and teaching and have developed a number of coures drawing on creative practices (see http://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/being-creative-with-student-assessment/) and using study circles as an integral part of learning and assessment (http://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/placing-study-circles-at-the-centre-of-the-student-learning-experience/). I currently hold the role of School Equality and Diversity Coordinator and work closely with the Director of Learning and Teaching with a focus on inclusion within the curriculum.
My research expertise is qualitative with a particular focus on narrative, discourse and power. I am also interested in the use of creative methods in research, particularly poetry and digital stories both as data and audience engagement media. My current research is focused on workforce, prison populations and alcohol, mental health carers in rural Scotland, and an autoethnographic interrogation of power in the co-productive relationship. As Associate Director of the Centre for Creative Relational Inquiry I am responsible for the programme of events to support doctoral students.
CV

Qualifications
PhD
RMN
PGCertHET
Responsibilities & affiliations
FHEA
NMC registered
Undergraduate teaching
Main teaching areas are:
- mental health
- professional issues in nursing and healthcare
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am happy to supervise PhD students from a range of disciplines whose projects fall within my area of expertise.
Current PhD students supervised
Current PhD supervision
Year 1:
Man Sa Lo, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, F/T
Study Topic: Sexual health education and needs and the development of an e-sexual health programme for young people in Macau
Methodology: Mixed methods, participatory action research
Second supervisor
Georgi Gill, Centre for Creative Relational Inquiry, University of Edinburgh, F/T
Study Topic: Using (auto)biographical poetry to explore the experience of multiple sclerosis
Methodology: Qualitative; arts based methods; autoethnographic poetry
Principle supervisor
Katherine Pachkowski, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, F/T
Study Topic: Exploitation of people with mental health problems living in the community
Methodology: Qualitative; discourse analysis
Principle supervisor
Blerte Hyseni, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maribor University, Slovenia F/T
Study Topic: Impact of performance appraisal and quality of management in nursing job satisfaction
Methodology: mixed methods
Principle supervisor
Year 2:
Jamie Smith, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, F/T
Study Topic: Nurses’ constructions of nursing work
Methodology: New materialist approaches
Principle supervisor
Year 3:
Gearoid Brennan, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, F/T
Study Topic: Mental health nurses’ understanding and engagement with their role in the physical health care of mental health patients in acute and community contexts
Methodology: Discourse analysis
Principle supervisor
Year 4:
Louise Johnston, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, P/T
Study Topic: Narrative study of student nurses’ experiences of coming to nursing from a widening participation pathway
Methodology: Narrative; discourse analysis
Principle supervisor
Jenny Young, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edinburgh Napier University, P/T
Study Topic: Narrative study of male carers’ experiences of caring for a female partner with cancer
Methodology: Narrative; discourse analysis
Second supervisor
Past PhD students supervised
Successful Completions:
Dr Jessica McLaren, University of Edinburgh, 2013
Title: Making Sense of Supervision: A Narrative Study of the Supervision Experiences of Mental Health Nurses and Midwives
Dr Thanee Glomjai, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2015
Title: Alcohol consumption behaviour of young people in Thailand: Perspectives of stakeholders in Petchaburi Province
Dr Szu-Szu Ho, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2018
Title:“It depends on our deep belief in the treatment and our values”— Understanding HIV-positive drug users’ experiences of taking Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment in Taiwan
Dan Hope, Sociology, University of Edinburgh, 2019
Title: 'What Nursing's All About': The caring ideal and ambivalence to 'profession' in nurses' occupational discourse
Sushila Chowdhry, Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2019
Title:(In)visible women: a narrative study of larger women's pregnant embodiment and maternal healthcare