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Dr.Dan Doran
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Assistant professor, nurse, carer, speaker, researcher, manager. Privileged to work with people enduring mental health difficulties. Opinions my own.
Please sign if you don’t agree with the University of Nottingham suspending the training of mental health and children’s nurses in Nottingham. This is going to have a huge impact on the care of vulnerable children and adults in Nottingham.

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Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion
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November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Comments from our brilliant new Dean here on proposed suspension and possible loss of #mentalhealth #child & #healthpromotion courses at the University of Nottingham.
As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public… |...
As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public he...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Faced with a growing genericism of mental health nursing courses more should be done to develop curricula that prepares MH students more fully for practice.
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Examining current challenges and future potential in mental health nurse education
Examining current challenges and future potential in mental health nurse education
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September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#ClimateCrisis affects everyone. Ttlaking meaningful steps to inspire #activehope may reduce rising mental ill-health, solastalgia, anxiety, and a range of other experiences associated with #climateemergency. Read more here. Free for 30 days... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in mind: responding to mental ill health associated with the climate crisis through personally meaningful change - K Burns, D Doran, M Pearson, 2025
Aims: To explore the principles of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) framework in relation to climate change as a global threat to mental health. To intr...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"...you feel like the one that got left behind." Some research I did a while back on #friendship and #mentalhealth. Shameful plug I know, but seems relevant for why I guess some folks have made the move to "here".

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‘... You feel like the one that got left behind’: a narrative inquiry into the friendships of people who have endured mental health difficulties - D Doran, A Edgley, T Stickley, 2023
Aims: To explore insights between friendship and mental health through a critical narrative inquiry. To conceptualise friendship and inform public health approa...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:19 PM
#Nottingham is a "city of literature", part of UNESCO's creative cities network. Proud of these public spaces and our local libraries.
Quite taken by the Nottingham City public library. A quick glance but well used and busy and looks up there with any of the best academic libraries.
November 10, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Hopefully some better news on the horizon for #mentalhealth #nursing in the UK...

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Government to publish new NHS workforce plan in 2025
The Labour government has committed to developing a new long-term workforce plan for the NHS to ...
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November 8, 2024 at 11:49 AM