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Dr Nicola Clibbens

Joint Clinical Academic Associate Professor

Department: Nursing, Midwifery & Health

Nicola Clibbens

Nicola has expertise in health services research focused on acute and crisis mental health. She has an interest in research focused on improving outcomes in community crisis care, development of interventions in crisis and intensive home treatment and imporving the experiences of people during a crisis and their family and friends. 

Nicola is experienced with involving people with lived experience in developing research ideas and in delivering high quality studies as research partners. 

Nicola works across Northumbria University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust to deliver high qaulity research and support the development of the nursing contribution to research. Nicola has engaged with a range of health, social care and voluntary sector partners to deliver research.

Nicola has expertise in realist methods, qualitative research, mixed method synthesis and evidence synthesis.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Accurate reporting of maternal suicide data enables development of targeted suicide prevention interventions, Clibbens, N., Rebair, A. 12 Jun 2024, In: Evidence-based nursing
  • Implementation of the Chief Nursing Officer for England’s national strategy for nursing research in mental health service provider organisations: A survey and documentary analysis of nurse leadership roles and related strategies, Clibbens, N., Dickens, G., Green, J., Byrne, I., Black, C. 28 May 2024
  • Involving stakeholders with lived and professional experience in a realist review of community mental health crisis services: a commentary, Ashman, M., Clibbens, N., Thompson, J., Gilburt, H., Thompson, E., Khalid, Y. 4 Dec 2024, In: Research Involvement and Engagement
  • Mental health crises: how to improve care, Clibbens, N., Lloyd-Evans, B., Lamb, D. 22 Jul 2024
  • Mental Health Nurses' and Allied Health Professionals' Individual Research Capacity and Organizational Research Culture: A comparative study, Dickens, G., Avantaggiato-Quinn, M., Long, S., Schoultz, M., Clibbens, N. 13 May 2024, In: SAGE Open Nursing
  • Psychosocial care delivery in intensive home treatment during a mental health crisis: a qualitative thematic analysis, Clibbens, N., Close, A., Poxton, J., Davies, C., Geary, L., Dickens, G. 1 Dec 2024, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • Explaining context, mechanism and outcome in adult community mental health crisis care: A realist evidence synthesis, Clibbens, N., Booth, A., Sharda, L., Baker, J., Thompson, J., Ashman, M., Berzins, K., Weich, S., Kendal, S. 1 Dec 2023, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • Explanation of context, mechanisms and outcomes in adult community mental health crisis care: the MH-CREST realist evidence synthesis, Clibbens, N., Baker, J., Booth, A., Berzins, K., Ashman, M., Sharda, L., Thompson, J., Kendal, S., Weich, S. 11 Sep 2023, In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research
  • Primary care suicide screening: the importance of comprehensive clinical assessment, Clibbens, N. 1 Jan 2021, In: Evidence-based nursing
  • Caregivers’ experiences of service transitions in adult mental health: An integrative qualitative synthesis, Clibbens, N., Berzins, K., Baker, J. 17 Sep 2019, In: Health & Social Care in the Community

Elaine Robinson Accessing child development services: the experiences of parents living with mental distress. Start Date: 01/03/2023

  • Health PhD January 01 2011
  • Education MA September 01 1999
  • Social Studies/Science DipHE September 01 1995
  • Registered Nurse Mental Health RMN


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