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Dr Geraldine Boyle

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer, (Health) Nursing
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care
  • Nursing
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Professional biography

Research grant funding

2024 - 2027: PI, NIHR-funded study £437,000 (FEC)

SATTA: South Asian young adult carers Transitions to Adulthood:Ìý

(with LOROS)

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2010 - 2012: PI, ESRC-funded study (£248,000):

The social process of everyday decision-making by people with dementia and their spouses

(with University of Sheffield).

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2010 - 2011: CI, study funded by Policy Research Programme, Dept. of Health (£225,000):

National study of Mental Capacity Act Best Interests Decision-making

(with University of Bristol and the Mental Health Foundation).

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My recent publications are available free (via open access) at Open Research Online:

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Research interests

Young carers/young adult carers; gendered caring; gender and disability; living with dementia;Ìýmental capacity law and decision-making; lived experience of long-term conditions; creative methods; research ethics.

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Professional/Research Networks:

Lead forÌýInternational research/practice network on young people’s gendered caring

Member -ÌýEurocarers (European Association Working for Carers)

Member - Young Carers Alliance

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Research Roles:

Vice-Chair, Social Care Research Ethics Committee;;

Deputy Chair, OU Carers Research Group;Ìý

NIHR Grant Reviewer;Ìý

Journal Reviewer: Children & Society;ÌýEthics and Social Welfare;

European Editor,ÌýHealth and Social Care in the Community (2017-2020);

(Previously) Editorial Board Member,ÌýDisability and Society;

(Previously) ESRC GrantÌýReviewer.Ìý

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Teaching interests

TeachingÌýQualifications:

Postgrad. Cert. in Higher Education Practice;

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Programme Lead

​Doctorate in Health and Social CareÌý

(Previously) MSc in Advancing Healthcare Practice

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Module Chair:

​K827: Leading healthcare improvements

k828: Researching and evaluating practice

K829: Transforming professional practice

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Academic Author/Contributor:

Undergraduate

K101: Introduction to health and social care.

K236: Extending your contribution to healthcare practice.

K210: Understanding nursing: knowledge and theory.

K316: Exploring practice.

K319: Adulthood, ageing and the lifecourse.

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Postgraduate:

K805:ÌýAdvancing Clinical Practice.

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External Examiner:

MSc in Dementia Studies, University of Stirling (2015-2019).

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Impact and engagement

BBC Co-ProductionÌý

Academic Advisor, Our Dementia Choir (2019); Dementia and Us (2021)

Acaemic lead, linked public engagement events in Belfast and Cardiff (2019)

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Open Learn Resources

1. Writing your research proposal (2023)

2. Who are young carers and what do they do?Ìý(2021):

3. People with dementia and meaning in music (2019):Ìý

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/people-dementia-and-meaning-music

​4. Music, culture and dementia (2019):Ìý

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/music-culture-and-dementia

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ArticlesÌýin professional journals and consultation responses

1. Boyle, G. (2023) Written evidence to the Inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group Young Carers and Young Adult Carers, Report Nov. 2023:Ìý

2. Boyle, G. (2013) Written evidence to the House of Lords Mental Capacity Act 2005 Select Committee, Evidence Volume 1, 20th December:

3. V. Williams, T. Williamson, Boyle, G. et al. (2013) Written evidence to the House of Lords Mental Capacity Act 2005 Select Committee, Evidence Volume 2, 20th December:

4.ÌýÌýWilliamson, T., Boyle, G. et al (2012) Listening to the lady in the bed: The Mental Capacity Act 2005 in practice for older people, Elder Law Journal, 2 (2), pp. 127-134.

5. Boyle G., Williams V. et al (2012) Making best interests decisions – are professionals getting it right?, Journal of Dementia Care, Nov/Dec, 19-21.

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Publications

(2023-07)
Boyle, Geraldine and Mozdiak, Elizabeth
Children & Society, 37(4) (pp. 1119-1135)

(2023-03)
Boyle, Geraldine; Constantinou, Georgina and Garcia, Rebecca
Children & Society, 37(2) (pp. 404-423)

(2023)
Boyle, Geraldine and Mozdiak, Elizabeth
Health & Social Care in the Community, 2023, Article 1466336

(2022)
Jones, K.; Methley, A.; Boyle, G.; Garcia, R. and Vseteckova, J.
Illness, Crisis, & Loss, 30(4) (pp. 596-613)

(2021-10)
Garcia, Rebecca; Mahon, Aiofe; , ; , and ,
Journal of Health and Social Care Improvement, 4(1) (pp. 14-23)

(2020)
Vseteckova, J.; Mahon, A.; Boyle, G.; Jones, K. and Garcia, R.
Biomedical Journal of Scientific and Technical Research, 24(4)

(2020)
Boyle, Geraldine
Ethics and Social Welfare, 14(3) (pp. 266-281)

(2017-10-03)
Boyle, Geraldine
Health and Social Care in the Community, 25(6) (pp. 1787-1793)

(2017-03-01)
Boyle, Geraldine and Warren, Lorna
Families, Relationships and Societies, 6(1) (pp. 3-19)

(2014-04-30)
Boyle, Geraldine
Journal of Gender Studies, 23(4) (pp. 336-350)

(2014-01)
Williams, Val; Boyle, Geraldine; Jepson, Marcus; Swift, Paul; Williamson, Toby and Heslop, Pauline
Health & Social Care in the Community, 22(1) (pp. 78-86)

(2014)
Boyle, Geraldine
Disability and Society, 29(7) (pp. 1130-1144)

(2013-09)
Boyle, Geraldine
Health and Social Care in the Community, 21(5) (pp. 554-562)

(2013-03)
Boyle, Geraldine
Families, Relationships & Societies, 2(1) (pp. 5-21)

(2013)
Boyle, Geraldine
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 35(2) (pp. 227-243)

(2011-08)
Boyle, Geraldine
Critical Social Policy, 31(3) (pp. 365-387)

(2010-09)
Boyle, Geraldine
Health and Social Care in the Community, 18(5) (pp. 511-519)

(2009)
Boyle, Geraldine
Health and Social Care in the Community, 17(4) (pp. 415-422)

(2008-12)
Boyle, Geraldine
Disability and Society, 23(7) (pp. 759-771)

(2008-09)
Boyle, Geraldine
Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(5) (pp. 529-537)

(2008-06)
Boyle, Geraldine
Disability and Society, 23(4) (pp. 299-310)

(2005-09)
Boyle, Geraldine
Ageing & Society, 25(5) (pp. . 731-748)

(2004-05)
Boyle, Geraldine
Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(3) (pp. 212-220)

(2019-07-16)
Boyle, Geraldine
In: Pickard, Susan and Robinson, Jude eds. Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime: Health, illness and disease across the life course. (pp. 113-127)
ISBN : 9781138351929 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon

(2020-08-06)
Jones, Kerry; Methley, Abigail; Boyle, Geraldine; Garcia, Rebecca and Vseteckova, Jitka
NIHR: National Institute for Health Research

(2020)
Jones, Kerry; Methley, Abigail; Boyle, Geraldine; Garcia, Rebecca; Smith, K and Vseteckova, Jitka
Prospero - International Prospective register of Systematic Reviews

(2020)
Vseteckova, Jitka; Jones, Kerry; Boyle, Geraldine; Garcia, Rebecca and Methley, Abigail
Prospero - International Prospective register of Systematic Reviews

(2019)
Vseteckova, Jitka; Mahon, Aoife; Boyle, Geraldine; Guntupalli, Aravinda; Jones, Kerry and Garcia, Rebecca
Prospero 2019 CRD4201919453

(2013)
Boyle, G. and Warren, L.
ESRC

(2013)
Boyle, G. and Warren, L.
ESRC

(2012)
Williams, Val; Boyle, Geraldine; Jepson, Marcus; Swift, Paul; Williamson, Toby and Heslop, Pauline
Mental Health Foundation, London.