Dr Sue McAndrew

Research Fellow (Mental Health)

• Mary Seacole MS1.39
• T: 0161 295 2778
• E: s.mcandrew@salford.ac.uk
• SEEK: Research profile

I have worked as a qualified mental health nurse since 1975, working in managerial roles in rehabilitation, neuropsychiatry, community mental health and primary mental health. In 1987, I qualified as a sex and marital therapist, specialising in psychosexual problems. In 1992, after completing my BSc I became a nurse lecturer at the University of Leeds, where I worked for 17 years and had responsibility for PG Pre-registration Nursing [Mental Health]. I joined the University of Salford in October, 2009 as a Research Fellow [Mental Health].

My academic interests focus on mental health policy and practice, therapeutic engagement, (skills and theory), psychoanalytic approaches, psychosexual issues, service user and carer involvement and qualitative research methodologies. I teach on the School’s undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes, and supervise postgraduate research students.

My professional background is in mental health care. The focus for my research interest is on inter-personal, intra-personal and extra-personal relationships and how we prepare people to engage in such relationships and the emotionality inherent within them. My research has centred around exploring the impact of such relationships on nursing practice, policy, organisation and education using psychodynamic analytical discourses. Much of my personal research has involved exploring different aspects of mental health, in particular sexual abuse, self harm and suicide.

1975 RMN Registered Mental Nurse
1985 CPN Cert
1986 ASMAT – Sex and Martial Therapist    
1992 BSc (Hons) Nursing with Education
1995 MSc Applied Psychology
2008 PhD (Gay men and suicidality: an exploration of the significant biographical experiences fore-grounded during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood of some gay men who have engaged in suicidality.)

1995–2000 - External examiner –University of Sheffield
2000- 2005 - External examiner  - Manchester Metropolitan University
2006-2009 -  External examiner – University of Dundee
2011-present - External examiner – King College London
1996 – 2002 – Specialist Registry Member – English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery SEEK
1990-2002 - Founder member and trainer for Barnsley Bereavement Society 2011-present -  Reviewer  for  Research for Patient Benefit
 

I am a peer reviewer for six nursing, education and research journals, and I am an Editorial Board Member, Nurse Education in Practice. I am passionate about getting my ideas and those of my colleagues, published. Since 2002, I have had 50 peer reviewed papers published, edited 3 books, written 12 chapters and presented 70 conference papers (national and international) and had 3 non-peer reviewed papers published. A full list of my publications can be found in SEEK and the University of Salford Institutional Repository (USIR).