Julie Attenborough

Head of Department - Education Development Unit

Tel: 020 7040 5313
Room: 1015, West Smithfield
Email: j.a.attenborough@city.ac.uk 

Julie Attenborough joined the University in 1997 as a lecturer in substance misuse and has taught on programmes across the school in addition to developing modules.  She is currently Head of the Education Development Unit working across the School of Community and Health Sciences developing healthcare education. 

 Areas of interest

• Service User involvement in healthcare education
• Dual diagnosis (mental health problems coexisting with substance use problems)
• Technology enhanced learning in healthcare education

Teaching

• BSc Health Sciences
• Post graduate diploma in nursing (mental health)
• Teaching and Assessing in Practice

Academic Qualifications

MSc, Mental Health Studies, University of London, 1995

Research

Using formative feedback via Moodle to feed-forward and enhance learner engagement in assessments.

Helping students to learn from audio feedback about their formative essays

Publications

Book Chapters

• Attenborough, J (2010) Alcohol and Mood Disorders in Phillips, P., McKeown, O and Sanford, T Dual Diagnosis: practice in context. Blackwell. Oxford
• Attenborough, J (2009) Mental Health Nursing. Chapter in Levett-Jones, P and Bourgeois, S The Clinical Placement, A Nursing Survival Guide  2nd Edition Elsevier
• Attenborough, J, Goodfellow, B, Light, I (2007) Practice Based Working with Users, Carers and Support Agencies Part Two of Myles, P and Rushworth, D (Eds) A Complete Guide to Primary Care Mental Health, Robinson, London
• Attenborough, J (2006) Motivational Interviewing Chapter in Callaghan, P and Waldock, H (Eds) Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing Oxford University Press

Journal publications

• Abbot, S., Attenborough, J., Cushing, A., Hanrahan, M., and Korszun, A (2009) Patient centred care and compulsory admission to hospital: students consider communication skills in mental health care Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 4 (6): 26-34
• Simpson, A., Reynolds, L., Light, I. & Attenborough, J. Talking with the Experts: Evaluation of an online discussion forum with mental health service users and student nurses. Nurse Education Today. 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2007.09.009
• Power, C. and Attenborough, J. (2003) Up from the streets: A follow-up study of people referred to a specialist team for the homeless
  mentally ill. Journal of Mental Health, 12 (1): 41-49.
• Cort, E.M., Attenborough, J. & Watson, J.P. (2002) An initial exploration of community mental health nurses' attitudes to and experience of sexuality-related issues in their work with people experiencing mental health problems. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 8 (6): 489-499.
• Attenborough, J and Watson, J.P. (1997) Staff Perception of Sexual Behaviour in a London Shelter for Homeless Men. Journal of Sexual and Marital Therapy 12 (2): 139-146

Conference Presentations

• Attenborough and Reynolds, L (2009) Developing reusable learning objects to enhance student nurses' engagement with mental health service users: Third International Clinical Skills Conference: Tuscany, ltaly
• Attenborough, J (2007)  Developing Therapeutic Skills and Interprofessional Working: An interprofessional teaching and learning resource in mental health: Cambridge
• Attenborough, J and Cushing A (2007) Teaching Communication Skills in Mental Health: An Interprofessional Teaching Resource: Teaching, Learning and Assessing Clinical Skills: Does one size fit all? Second International Clinical Skills Conference Tuscany 2007
• Attenborough, J  (2007) Developing Therapeutic Skills: National Mental Health Nurses Conference Transforming practice: ideas into reality Cambridge 2007
• Attenborough, J and Cushing, M (2007) Teaching Communication Skills in Mental Health: An Interprofessional Teaching Resource: Second International Clinical Skills Conference Tuscany 2007
• Attenborough, J and Filer, L (2001) The Pharmacologist meets the Psychologist: Educating mental health nurses about dual diagnosis. Association of Nurses in Substance Abuse National Conference Southampton  April 2001
• Attenborough, J and Cort E (1999) Sexual history taking with people with mental illness: Royal College of Nursing Mental Health Conference. Jersey February 1999
• Attenborough J (1999) To Test or not to Test: Randomised urine testing for toxicology with illicit drugs. Association of Nurses in Substance Abuse (ANSA) National Conference University of Cambridge
• Attenborough J and Cort E Taking a Sexual History in a Community Setting: Workshop, Community Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference, University of Warwick
• Attenborough J and Phillips P (1998) The Establishment of a Dual Diagnosis Course for Mental Health Nurses: A partnership between education and practice. English National Board Conference, Cambridge. June 1998
• Attenborough J Sex, Drugs and Love in a Cold Weather Shelter: Relationship to Health Risk Behaviour: European Mental Health Nursing Conference, Belfast.  

Consultancy

External Examiner, University of Chester, 2009-2012