Biography

I am currently on a two year secondment in a lecturer / practitioner role between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust where I work as a Senior Nurse. I have worked at a Registered Mental Health Nurse since 1987 in a range of clinical, practice development and teaching roles. I also work a day a week with the South Yorkshire Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) in the Translating Knowledge to Action (TK2A) implementation theme.

Research Interests

My research interests are the care of people who have dementia and I am interested in research methods that enable people’s ‘voices to be heard’.

Teaching Interests

Staff mentorship around dementia and service user involvement

Professional activities

Current projects

• What helps and hinders the implementation of life story work into practice.
• Life stories of Yemeni Elders.
• The involvement of people who have dementia in service planning and evaluation

Key publications

McKeown, J., Clarke, A. and Repper, J. (2006) Life story work in health and social care: systematic literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 55, 237 – 247.

McKeown, J., Clarke, A., Ingleton, C. and Repper, J. (2010a) Actively involving people with dementia in qualitative research. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19, 1935 – 1943.

McKeown, J., Clarke, A., Ingleton, C. Ryan, T. and Repper, J. (2010b) The use of life story work with people with dementia to enhance person-centred care. International Journal of Nursing Older People, 5, 148 – 158.