Jim Chapman

Academic Lead for Apprenticeships and Partnerships

Email:: jim.chapman@bcu.ac.uk

Prior to moving into education, Jim worked as a mental health nurse in in-patient and community mental health settings, specialising in providing urgent and crisis care to working age adults.

As an academic, Jim has worked across undergraduate and postgraduate nurse education, focusing on teaching clinical nursing skills and principles of recovery, specialising on using recovery-oriented approaches for people who hear voices. Jim co-ordinates a module on our childhood, adolescence and young adulthood mental health pathway. He is currently the Academic Lead for Apprenticeships and Partnerships.

Current Activity

Teaching

Research

Publications

Written publications

Lewis D, O’Boyle-Duggan M, Chapman J, Dee P, Sellner K & Gorman S (2013) ‘Putting Words into Action’ projects: using role play in skills training. British Journal of Nursing. 22(11), 638-44

Chapman, J & Chessum, C (2009) Fundamental Skills of Mental Health Nursing; in Clarke, V & Walsh, A (eds.) Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Chapman, J & Morris, M (2011) Post-qualifying students' experiences of implementing skills acquired from a ‘hearing voices' module into routine clinical practice. Journal of Mental Health Education, Training and Practice. 6(2), 85-92

Conference presentations

July 2005 - Challenging Professional Practice; National Mental Health Nursing Conference 2005, Leicester. ‘Voice Hearers: Educating the Service User and the Clinician’ (masterclass).

October 2007 - What Works - Examples of Good Practice within Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, Birmingham. ‘Recovery Based Working with Voice Hearers’ (presentation).

September 2009 - Intervoice annual meeting, Valkenburg, Netherlands. ‘An Overview of the Educational ‘Hearing Voices' Perspective in the UK’ (presentation).

September 2009 - Inaugural World Hearing Voices Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands. ‘Post-Qualifying Students' Experiences of Implementing Skills Acquired from a ‘Hearing Voices' Module into Routine Clinical Practice’ (presentation).

November 2009 - Authenticity to Action. Involving Service Users and Carers in Higher Education; Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. ‘The Development of a DVD and Learning Resource to Enhance the Student Learning Experience of Carers' Issues in Mental Health Care’ (workshop).

November 2009 - 5th Faculty Research Conference, Birmingham City University, Birmingham. ‘Post-Qualifying Students' Experiences of Implementing Skills Acquired from a ‘Hearing Voices' Module into Routine Clinical Practice’ (presentation).

February 2010 - Partners In Practice; RCN Education Forum Conference 2010, Blackpool. ‘The Hearing Voices Summer School - The Evaluation of a CPD Initiative between a Higher Education Institution and a Third Sector Organisation’ (presentation).

October 2010 – 2nd World Hearing Voices Conference, Nottinghamshire, UK. ‘Hearing Voices Groups: What we know, what we think we know, and what we need to find out more about’ (workshop).

November 2010 – 6th Faculty research Conference, Birmingham City University. ‘Hearing Voices Groups. A review of the literature’ (presentation).