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Honorary Professor Christine Brown Wilson

Honorary Professor

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
c.brownwilson@uq.edu.au

Overview

Professor Christine Brown Wilson is a Registered Nurse with an international research profile in Ageing and Dementia focusing on translating research into residential aged care and family caregiving in the community. Christine's methodological expertise lies in qualitative methodologies including working collaboratively with older people, including people with dementia, their families and staff to improve practice. She has established links with industry and service user organisations in the UK enabling older people, family caregivers and staff to be active participants in the research process. Christine is currently working with interdisicplinary research teams in Australia , UK and Europe. Christine is passionate about translating research into practice and works with collaeagues across the Higher Education sector and in practice to achieve this. Her current work is focussing on the development of educational, online resources to support staff in residential care with sexuality and intimacy and promotiong effective end of life care involving family caregivers. Christine supports organisations and teams in changing practice through quality improvement workshops and developing relationship centered services in dementia care both in the UK and Singapore. Through this process, Christine has developed relationship based strategies that can be embedded at all levels of an organisation including a facilitated model of practice development that supports staff in identifying practical strategies to implement person centred care.

Christine is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. She is also a founding member of the UK based National Care Homes Research and Development Forum. She has over 50 research outputs in peer reviewed journals, books and book chapters with 250 scopus citations on 19 of these. Christine has been invited to give workshop presentations in the UK, North America and Australia and invited keynotes in Singapore. She is a journal reviewer for both national and international journals and is a grant reviewer for a number of international granting schemes. Christine is an Asscoiate Editor for Health and Social Care in the Community, an international, interdiscipinary journal.

Research Interests

  • Dementia
    Application of relational models of care and family caregiving; use of technology to improve public perception of dementia
  • Health care technology
    ePortfolio and use of health care technology by health professions students
  • Residential Aged Care
    Implementation of relational approaches to care; enabling staff to support sexuality and intimate relationships in care homes; use of digital technology to improve quality of care in RACF; building resilience in staff.
  • Health professions Education
    Co-design of curriculum and staff development resources; use of digital technology to enhance learning; building resilience in students; facilitating research internships

Research Impacts

Christine has undertaken consultancy in the UK and Singapore in promting an organisational approach to person centred dementia care. Christine's relational model embeds into everyday working so that staff can implement principles of person centred care into their usual routines whilst still involving older people and family caregivers in the decisions being made. This model has been successfully implemented in residential aged care as well as acute environments.

Qualifications

  • Certificate in Education, University of Greenwich
  • Bachelor of Science, University of Kent
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Publications

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Supervision

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Available Projects

  • Developing an intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia

    This project provides an opportunity to develop an intervention that focuses on the relationships between family caregivers and people with dementia living in the community. The intervention will build on the results of a survey of family caregivers and professionals supporting them to ensure the intervention meets the needs of everyone in the relationship. The intervention will promote self efficacy of family caregivers and be able to be delivered by a range of different professionals.

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Parenting and carer responsibilities during the later years

    Wilson, Christine Brown (2018). Parenting and carer responsibilities during the later years. Handbook of parenting and child development across the lifespan. (pp. 677-696) edited by Matthew R. Sanders and Alina Morawska. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94598-9_30

  • Caring for the Older Person

    Stanmore, E. and Brown Wilson, C. (2015). Caring for the Older Person. Foundations of Adult Nursing. (pp. 361-394) edited by Dianne Burns. London, United Kingdom: Sage.

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Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • Kids Dementia Game

    Dr. Gary Mitchell, Dr. Sonya Clarke, Dr. Gillian Carter and Christine Brown Wilson (2021). Kids Dementia Game . Glasgow: Focus Games Ltd.

  • Dementia awareness game

    Mitchell, Gary, Carter, Gillian and Christine Brown Wilson (2019). Dementia awareness game. London, United Kingdom: Focus Games.

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Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Developing an intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia

    This project provides an opportunity to develop an intervention that focuses on the relationships between family caregivers and people with dementia living in the community. The intervention will build on the results of a survey of family caregivers and professionals supporting them to ensure the intervention meets the needs of everyone in the relationship. The intervention will promote self efficacy of family caregivers and be able to be delivered by a range of different professionals.

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

older people, ageing, dementia, family caregiving, technology in health care, residential aged care

They are happy to lend their expertise to your articles or broadcasts and share their research discoveries and insights with the community via media channels.

For additional assistance with story ideas, general advice and information or help with seeking further experts, please email the UQ Media Team or telephone (07) 3365 1120.

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ResearcherID: E-7885-2010

ORCID: 0000-0002-7861-9538

Scopus ID: 14120647200

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