Prof Angie Hart

AR Hart
Prof of Child, Family & Community Health

contact:
Nursing and Midwifery
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644051

Email: A.Hart@brighton.ac.uk

• Academic Director of the Community University Partnership Programme

Research interests

• Inequalities and disadvantage
• Applying insights from research to practice
• User involvement in research and development
• Client-practitioner relationships
• Qualitative research methods
• Resilient approaches
• Current Project: Resilient Therapy
• Find out more on the 'Positive Psychology Resources' website: Resilient Therapy: A box of ordinary magic tricks or see: www.brighton.ac.uk/cupp/component/content/article/133.html

Profile

Angie Hart is the Academic Director of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme at the University of Brighton. As part of that role, she is the Brighton lead for the HEFCE-funded South East Coastal Communities Programme (www.cupp.org.uk). She is also Professor of Child, Family and Community Health in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the Faculty of Health and Social Science. She teaches on professional courses for health and social care practitioners and undertakes participatory research into inequalities in health and social care in relation to children and families.

Professor Hart is a child and family therapist, and until August 2008 she worked part-time as a research-practitioner in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, Brighton. She worked both in a specialist team supporting fostered and adopted children, and in a generic CAMHS clinic located in a socially and economically deprived area of Brighton. As the adoptive parent of three children from the care system, she has much experience herself as a service user of health and social care services in both the voluntary and statutory sector.

Professor Hart has published widely on health and social care services to disadvantaged children, their families and their supporters, especially in relation to fostering and adoption to midwifery and health visiting and in relation to the concept of resilience. She has also published her work on the development of community university partnership programmes. Her current work includes developing a series of communities of practice in collaboration with a local charity. This project involves working with groups of parents and practitioners to implement and develop Resilient Therapy.

Professor Hart's degrees are in philosophy and social anthropology from the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge and Oxford, and she has a postgraduate diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the University of Sussex.

Professor Hart has project-managed and worked as a research collaborator on many multi-disciplinary research projects. These include ones commissioned by major government agencies (e.g. the Department of Health and the Economic and Social Research Council).

Selected publications

Cameron, J., Walker, C., Hart, A., Sadlo, G., Haslam, I. and The Retain Support Group (in press). Supporting workers with mental health problems to retain employment: Users' experiences of a UK job retention project. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, & Rehabilitation

Experience in Mind with Taylor, S., and Hart, A. (2011). Mental health and the Resilient Therapy toolkit: A guide for parents about mental health written by young people. Bath: MBE.

Hart, A. and Aumann, K. (2011). Holding universities to account: Building articulate community partner. In P. Benneworth (Ed.), University engagement with socially excluded communities: Towards the idea of 'the engaged university'. Springer.

Millican, J., and Hart, A. (2011). Community university partnership research in practice at the University of Brighton, England: Processes and Pitfalls. Rhizoma Freireano, 9, 1-17.

Hart, A., and Northmore, S. (2011). Auditing and evaluating university-community engagement: Lessons from a UK case study. Higher Education Quarterly, 65(1), 34-58.

Wyatt, S., Henwood, F., Hart, A., and Platzer, H. (2010). Transforming health? The Internet and everyday life. In G. Murdock and P. Golding (Eds.), Digital dynamics: Engagements and connections (pp. 3-22). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Hart, A. (2010). Early promise? In D. Wolff and C Davies (Eds.), Working in community university partnerships: Academic experiences (pp. 32-41). Brighton: CUPP, University of Brighton.

Hart, A., Northmore, S., Gerhardt, C., and Rodriguez, P. (2009). Developing access between universities and local community groups: A university helpdesk in action. Journal of Higher Education, Outreach and Engagement, 13(3), 45-59.

Aumann, K. and Hart, A. (2009) Helping children with complex needs bounce back: Resilient Therapy for parents and professionals. London: Jessica Kingsley

Hart, A., Blincow, D., with Thomas, H. (2008). Resilient Therapy: Strategic therapeutic engagement with children in crisis. Child Care in Practice, 4(2), 131-145.

Hart, A., Northmore, S. and Gerhardt, C. (2008) Auditing, benchmarking and evaluating university public engagement. Briefing paper commissioned by The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement.

Cameron, J., and Hart, A. (2007). Case study 8. Ethical issues in obtaining informed consent for research from those recovering from acute mental health problems. Research Ethics Review, 3(3), 91.

Blincow, D., Thomas, H., and Hart, A. (2007). Introducing Resilient Therapy to the Courts. Family Law, 37, 839-843.

Hart, A., Maddison, E. and Wolff, D. (eds) (2007) Community-university partnership in practice. Niace: London. ISBN 978-1-86201-317-9. In press.

Hart, A. and Blincow, D. with Thomas, H. (2007) Resilient Therapy: Working with children and families. Routledge: London. ISBN 1-84310-146-7.

Hart, A. and Luckock, B. (2006) 'Core principles and therapeutic objectives for therapy with adoptive and permanent foster families', Fostering and Adoption 30 (2) 29-42.

Hart, A. and Wolff, D. (2006) 'Developing local "Communities of Practice" through local Community-University Partnerships', Planning Practice & Research 21 (1) 121-138.

Hart, A. and Freeman, M. (2005) 'Health care interventions: Making inequalities worse, not better?' Journal of Advanced Nursing 49 (5) 502-512.

Hart, A., Saunders, A. and Thomas, H. (2005) 'Attuned practice: A service user's study of specialist child and adolescent mental health, UK', Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale (EPS) 14 (1) 22-31.

Hart, A. and Luckock, B. (2004) Developing adoption support and therapy: New approaches for practice. Jessica Kingsley: London ISBN 1-84310-146-7.

Hart, A., New, C. and Freeman, M. (2004) 'Health visitors and "disadvantaged" parent-clients: Designing realist research', in Bob Carter and Caroline New (eds) Making realism work: Realist social theory and empirical research (pp. 254-273). Routledge: London. ISBN 0-415-30061-4.

Hart, A., Henwood, F. and Wyatt, S. (2004) 'The role of the Internet in patient-practitioner relationships: Findings from a qualitative research study', Journal of Medical Internet Research 6 (3) e36, 92-98.

Hart, A., Hall, V. and Henwood, F. (2003) 'Helping health and social care professionals develop an "inequalities imagination": A model for use in education and practice', Journal of Advanced Nursing 41 (5) 1-9.

Publications from the institutional repository