Papers in refereed journals

Editorial: Wisdom, prudence and academic freedom, Nurse Education Today, 2015, 35, 423-424

Editorial: Is there a bachelor in the house?, Nursing Philosophy, 2015, 16, 4, 175-176

Foundations for a human science of nursing: Gadamer. Laing and the hermeneutics of caring, Nursing Philosophy, 2015, 16, 3, 141-152

2014

Editorial: Wisdom, prudence and academic freedom, Nurse Education Today, 2015, 35, 423-424

The compassion deficit and what to do about it: A response to Paley (with Lyn Gardner), Nursing Philosophy, 2014, 15, 288-297

Editorial: Special Edition, Nurse Education Today, 2014, 34, 8, 1135

Rethinking reflective education: What would Dewey have done? Nurse Education Today, 2014, 34, 8, 1179-1183

Understanding advanced nursing practice, Nursing Times, 2014, 110, 27, 20-23

A new vision for advanced nursing practice, Nursing Times, 2014, 110, 28, 18-21

Big Ideas: Reach, touch and teach, Nurse Education Today, 2014, 488–489

Making a difference: using action research to explore our educational practice (with 5 others), Educational Action Research (in press)

Editorial: Educating the good for nothing student, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2014, 23, 11-12, 1459-1460

Commentary on Kelly: Learning is still the real business of the University, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2014, 23, 5-6, 892-893

Invisible gorillas and red herrings: a response to Paley (with Lyn Gardner), Nurse Education Today, 2014, 34, 6, 954-957

2013

The theorist-practitioner gap: bringing the two sides closer together (with Lyn Gardner and Peter Ghroum), Mental Health Practice, 2013, 16, 6, 

Thinking as a subversive activity: doing philosophy in the corporate university, Nursing Philosophy, 2013, 14,1, 28-37 

Essaying the essay: Nursing scholarship and the hegemony of the laboratory (with Lyn Gardner), Nurse Education Today, 2013, 33, 31-35 

2012

Fast food for thought: How to survive and thrive in the corporate university, Nurse Education Today, 2012,32, 7, 732-736 

Cardinal John Henry Newman and ‘the ideal state and purpose of a university’: nurse education, research and practice development for the twenty-first century, Nursing Inquiry, 2012, 19, 2, 98-106 

Big ideas: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Nurse Education Today, 2012, 32, 3, 195-6.

2011

Big ideas: C. Wright Mills on Intellectual Craftsmanship, Nurse Education Today, 2011, 31, 115-6

Commentary on: Christensen, M. (2011) Advancing nursing practice redefining the theoretical and practical integration of knowledge, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2011, 20, 873-881

2010

That dangerous supplement: a short introduction to reading and writing for nurses. Paper commissioned by the Icelandic Journal of Nursing, 2010, 5, 86, 40-42 

The jargon wheel and the total library: The problem of reliability in qualitative research, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2010, 17, 10, 931-934 

Face-to-Face: An interview with Gary Rolfe, Mental Health Practice, 2010, 14, 4, 35 

Pause for thought: Big ideas for nurse education. Review of The Two Cultures, Nurse Education Today, 2010, 30, 8, 705-706

Editorial: Only connect… an invitation to scholarship, Nurse Education Today, 2010, 30, 8, 703-4

A reply to 'Why nursing has not embraced the clinician-scientist role' by Martha MacKay: Nursing Science and the postmodern menace, Nursing Philosophy, 2010, 11, 2, 136-140

Conversations with ourselves: A rejoinder to Topping and Reed, Nurse Education Today, 2010, 30, 101-2

2009

PhD by publication: A prospective as well as retrospective award? Some subversive thoughts (with Ruth Davies), Nurse Education Today, 2009, 29, 6, 590-594 

Second generation professional doctorates in nursing(with Ruth Davies),International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2009, 46, 9, 1265-1273 

The convenient myth of 'good scholarship', Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2009, 16, 4, 390-394 

Writing-up and writing-as: Rediscovering nursing scholarship, Nurse Education Today, 2009, 29, 8, 816-820 

Some further questions on the nature of caring, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2009, 46, 143-6 

Professing nursing as an emancipatory practice: A response to Betts, C.E., The critical practice of professing nursing: A contribution to the professors of nursing debate, Nurse Education in Practice, 2009, 9, 5, 294-296

Complexity and uniqueness in nursing practice: Commentary on Richards and Hamers, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2009, 46, 8, 1156-1158

2008

Tensions and contradictions in nurses’ perspectives of evidence-based practice(with Jeremy Segrott and Sue Jordan), Journal of Nursing Management, 2008, 16, 440-451 

Evidence-based practice: a debate (with Roger Watson) Journal of Nursing Management, 2008, 16, 486-493 

Nursing and the art of radical critique, Nurse Education Today 2008, 28, 1, 1-7

Evidence for and evidence against: a response to Paley et al Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2008, 62, 2, 268-269

2007

A collaborative inquiry between a person-centred therapist and a client: Working with an emerging dissociated‘self’ (with Mary Morris & Rob Turner) Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy, 2007, 6, 2, 78-111

Nursing scholarship and the asymmetrical professor, Nurse Education in Practice,2007, 7, 123-7

Validity and the fabrication of truths: a response to Porter, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2007, 60, 1, 108-9 

Editorial: Managing complexity, Journal of Nursing Management, 2007, 15, 675-6 

Editorial: Management, leadership and patient outcomes, Journal of Nursing Management, 2007, 15, 470-1

Feedback: Nursing management and the management of nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, 2007, 15, 559-60 

Review: Moving from collision to integration: Reflecting on the experience of mixed methods, Journal of Research in Nursing, 2007, 12, 1, 85-86

Papers in refereed journals

2006

Core elements of programmatic research in nursing: a case study (with  Tina Koch & Debbie Kralik), Collegian, 2005, 12, 1, 7-12 

To save the honour of thinking, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2005, 42, 363-9 

Where is John Paley when you need him?, Nursing Philosophy, 2005, 6, 153-5 

Towards a nursing science of the unique: evidence, reflexivity and the study of persons (with Lyn Gardner),Journal of Research in Nursing, 2005, 10, 3, 297-310 

The deconstructing angel: nursing, reflection and evidence-based practice, Nursing Inquiry, 2005, 12, 78-86 

The research assessment exercise and its effects on practice development (with Lyn Gardner), Practice Development in Health Care, 2005, 4, 3, 160-1  

Research, practice and praxis, Proceedings of the 4th International research and Development Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 41-65

Books

The  University in Dissent: Scholarship in the corporate university, 2013, Routledge/SRHE, 

Critical Reflection in Practice (2^nd edition) (with Melanie Jasper & Dawn Freshwater), 2011, Basingstoke: Palgrave 

Reflection, Research and the Postmodern Turn: Collected Papers 2000-2006, 2006, London: NPI 

Deconstructing Evidence-Based Practice (with Dawn Freshwater), 2004, London: Routledge 

Critical Reflection for Nursing and the Helping Professions: a User’s Guide (with Melanie Jasper & Dawn Freshwater), 2001, Basingstoke: Palgrave 

Nursing Praxis and the Reflexive Practitioner: Collected Papers 1993-9, 2000, London: NPI 

Research, Truth and Authority: Postmodern Perspectives on Nursing, 2000, Basingstoke: Macmillan 

Advanced Nursing Practice (edited text with Paul Fulbrook), 1998, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann. 

Expanding Nursing Knowledge: Understanding and Researching your own Practice, 1998, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann. 

Closing the Theory-Practice Gap: A New Paradigm for Nursing, 1996, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Book Chapters

The Idea(l) of a paraversity, in R. Barnett and M. Peters (eds) The Global University, Peter Lang Publishing, in press

The reflective practitioner as critical theorist, in T. Foth et al (eds) Critical Approaches in Nursing Theory and Nursing Research: Implications for Nursing Practice, V&R Academic, 2017

C. Wright Mills and the sociological imagination, in M. Lipscomb (ed) Social Theory and Nursing, Routledge, 2017

Reflective leadership: A new paradigm? in E.A, Curtis and J. Cullen (eds) Leadership and Change for the Health Professional, Open University Press, 2017

Issues in developing an educational and professional portfolio (with Alyson Davies), in A.M. Davies and R.E. Davies (eds) Children and Young People's Nursing: Principles for Practice (2nd Edn), Taylor and Francis, 2016

Learning to think in the corporate university: Developing a doctorate for practice (with Liz Smythe and Peter Larmer), in V.A. Storey (ed) International Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence, in M. Lipscomb (ed) Exploring Evidence-Based Practice: Debates and Challenges in Nursing, Routledge, 2015

We are all para-academics now, in A. Wardrop and D. Withers (eds)The Para-Academic Handbook, HammerOn Press, 2014

The philosophical basis for research, in E.A. Curtis and J. Drennan (eds) Issues and Methods for Quantitative Health Research: Issues and Methods, McGraw Hill, 2013

Five answers, in A. Forss, C. Ceci and J.S. Drummond (eds) Philosophy of Nursing: Five Questions, Automatic Press, 2013

Knowledge to underpin Practice, in P. Griffiths and G. Mooney (eds) The Paramedic's Guide to Research: An Introduction, Open University Press, 2011 

Practitioner-centered research: Nursing praxis and the science of the unique, in P. Reed and N. Crawford Shearer (eds) Nursing Knowledge and Theory Innovation: Advancing the Science of Practice, Springer, 2011 

Developing a professional portfolio for practice, education and research (with Alyson Davies) in A. Davies & R. Davies (eds) Children’s Nursing Practice and Child Health, Hodder Arnold, 2011 

Back to the future: challenging hard science approaches to care, in T. Warne & S. McAndrew (eds) Creative Approaches to Nurse Education Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 

The possibility of a genuine mental health nursing (with Lyn Gardner), in P. Barker & P. Buchanan Barker (eds) Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The craft of caring, Hodder Arnold, 2009 

Essentialism, in Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research, Sage Publications, 2008 

Non-Essentialism, in Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research, Sage Publications, 2008 

Judgements without rules: towards a postmodern ironist concept of research validity, in P. Reed & N. Crawford Shearer (eds) Perspectives on Nursing Theory (5^th Ed), 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 

Nursing praxis and the science of the unique, in P. Reed & N. Crawford Shearer (eds) Perspectives on Nursing Theory (5^th Ed), 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 

Little narratives of nursing: education in the postmodern university, in J. Drummond & P. Standish (eds) The Philosophy of Nurse Education, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 

Evidence-Based Practice, in M. Jasper (ed) Professional Development, Reflection and Decision-Making, 2006, Oxford: Blackwell 

Against Standardization, in J. Cutcliffe & M. Ward (eds) Key Debates in Mental Health Care, 2006, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone 

Evidence, memory and truth: towards a deconstructive validation of reflective practice, in C. John & D. Freshwater (eds) Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice (2^nd ed), 2005, Oxford: Blackwell

Foreword in T. Warne & S. McAndrew (eds) Using Patient Experience in Nurse Education, 2005, Basingstoke: Palgrave 

The possibility of genuine mental health nursing (with Lyn Gardner), in P. Barker (ed) The Textbook of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2003, London: Edward Arnold 

Reflective practice, in O. Slevin & L. Basford (eds) Theory and Practice of Nursing: An Integrated Approach to Patient Care, 2003, Nelson Thornes 

Reflexive research and the use of self, in D. Freshwater (ed) Therapeutic Nursing, 2002, London: Sage 

Beyond Expertise: Reflective and reflexive nursing practice, in C. Johns & D. Freshwater (eds) Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1998. 

Advanced practice and the reflective nurse: developing knowledge out of practice, in G. Rolfe & P Fulbrook Advanced Nursing Practice, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann 1998. 

Education for the advanced practitioner, in G. Rolfe & P Fulbrook Advanced Nursing Practice, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 1998 

Theory, practice and the reflective practitioner, in J. Osterbrink (ed) Erster Internationaler Pflegetheorienkongress Nurnberg, Bern: Verlag Hans Huber, 1998. 

Ein Pflegepraxismodell zur uberbruckung der Theorie-Praxis-Diskrepanz, in R. Schröck & G. Lesser (eds) Pflegetheorien in Praxis, Forschung und Lehre, Lambertus, 1997. 

Evaluating a student-centred course through participative action research (with Melanie Jasper), in G. Gibbs (ed), Improving Student Learning: Using Research to Improve Student Learning, Oxford: The Oxford Centre for Staff Development, 1996. 

Individualised Approaches, in H. Wright & M. Giddey (eds), Mental Health Nursing: From First Principles to Professional Practice, London: Chapman & Hall, 1993.