Prof Val Hall
V Hall
Professor of Midwifery
contact:
Nursing and Midwifery
Mayfield House
Falmer
Brighton
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644015
Email: V.Hall@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- Multisensory learning in professional practice
- Professional knowledge and decision making
- Inequalities in Health
- Home visiting parent support programmes
- User involvement in research
Current projects
- Gypsy and Travellers' use of urgent services - This study is being carried out in collaboration with Friends, Families, and Travellers a charity supporting and representing the Gypsy and Traveller population. Participatory research techniques are being used and peer researchers from the Gypsy and Traveller community have been involved in all stages of the research process. The study looks at the current use of urgent services by the technically 'invisible' Gypsy and Traveller population to determine how their urgent care needs are currently met and suggest ways to optimise services to improve health outcomes.
- Professor Hall will lead a £70,000 project in an award by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme entitled: Towards an NHS toolkit for obtaining consent for hospital admission from adults with learning disability incorporating a novel virtual world experience and a specialist interview technique. Professor Hall will be working with partners in the NHS and Imperial College to investigate the viability of a customised Immersive Virtual Environment (IVE) as part of a toolkit that will better enable NHS staff to gain consent from marginalised groups. The project will use Second Life to investigate how people with learning difficulties participate in this environment, in particular the physical and technical barriers that may affect this experience.
Profile
Professor Hall is currently the Head of the Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research (CNMR) at the University of Brighton where she also leads the Sussex arm of the NIHR Research Design Service South East. (www.rds-se.nihr.ac.uk) She is a practicing midwife, educationalist and researcher and over the past twenty years she has been involved in facilitating the growth of scholarly activity and research capacity in nursing and midwifery.
Her own scholarly interests centre on the way students learn to become professionals, broadening the traditional definitions of professional knowledge and identifying the contribution of multi-sensory modes of learning to professional education and clinical decision making. Combining this with her research interest in providing accessible services for hard to reach groups she developed, together with other colleagues a learning model to help practitioners engage actively with issues in health inequalities, which has attracted national and international interest.
Professor Hall is currently researching pre-birth and early parenting support schemes for vulnerable families.
Abstract of Inaugural Professorial Lecture
15th June 2005:
Blending ancient wisdom with contemporary understandings: re-birthing midwifery scholarship (pdf 15Kb)
Recent publications
Journal articles
Sheriff, N., Hall, V., and Pickin, M., (2009), Fathers' perspectives on breastfeeding: ideas for intervention, British Journal of Midwifery, 17 (4), pp tbc
Hall, V. and Virgo, S., (2007) Evaluation of the Earlylink project: a pre-birth to eighteen months home visiting and parent support service in East Brighton, University of Brighton.
Hall, V. (2005) "'Thinking Aloud' - a technique for uncovering multi-sensory learning in professional education", paper presented at the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh Dec 13th-15th 2005 Education-line www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/152807.htm (17 March 2006)
Hall, V. and Hart, A. (2004) 'The use of imagination in Higher Education to enable learning about disadvantaged clients' Learning in Health and Social Care 3(4): 190-202
Hart, A., Hall, V., and Henwood, F. (2003) 'Helping health and social care professionals to develop an 'inequalities imagination': a model for use in education and practice' Journal of Advanced Nursing 41(5): 480-489.
Hart, A. and Hall, V. (2001) 'Addressing health inequalities: Implications for curriculum planning and educational delivery', The Practising Midwife 4(9): 42-3.
Hart, A., Lockey, R., Henwood, F., Pankhurst, F., Hall, V. and Sommerville, F. (2001) Addressing inequalities in health: New directions in midwifery education and practice, English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting: London.
Conference papers
2007 - 'The Earlylink project: championing support in the community for families with babies and young children' presented at the You, me, us HRHSC (Centre for Research in Health and Social Care) Annual Conference held at the University of Brighton, Small Hall, UK, 29th June 2007
2007 - Lessons learned from experience in facilitating public and patient involvement in research National RDSU Network conference Goodenough College London 14th June 2007
2007 - De l'Évaluation des pratiques professionelles à l'accréditation de la pratique professionnelle individuelle. Assistance Publique et Hopitaux de Paris, Ecole de Sages-Femmes Baudelocque, Université Paris Descartes. Paris Jan 2007
2007 - Midwifery in the future. Midwives: Saving lives together! Conference and Fundraising event for White Ribbon Alliance UCLAN in partnership with Johnson's baby 4th May 2007
2005 - Le développement de la recherche autour de la profession des sages-femmes. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen. Nov 2005
2005 - 'Thinking Aloud' - a technique for uncovering multi-sensory learning in professional education: Society for Research into Higher Education annual conference. Edinburgh 2005
2004 - Capturing hearts and minds: factors influencing recruitment and retention in midwifery education. Transforming the Architecture of Midwifery Education. Royal College of Midwives Conference. London 2004
2004 - Dealing with diversity and devalued difference on professional courses: a learning tool in action. Diverse students, diverse disciplines: successful academic and professional study. Learning and Teaching Conference. University of Brighton, Sussex 2004
2004 - Education and Development. Valuing Midwives: Developing and increasing the workforce. Department of Health in association with the Royal College of Midwives. London 2004
2003 - The use of imagination in Higher Education to enable learning about disadvantage clients. Transforming Healthcare through Research, Education and Technology. 4th Annual International Research Conference. Dublin, Ireland 2003
2002 - Helping health and social care professionals to develop an inequalities imagination: A model for use in education and practice. Cultural Care paradigms in Life Transitions: An interdisciplinary approach. 28th Annual Conference of the Transcultural Nursing Society. Toronto, Canada 2002
Reports
Hall, V. and Virgo, S. (2007) Evaluation of the Earlylink project: a pre-birth to eighteen months home visiting and parent support service in East Brighton
Hart, A., Lockey, R., Henwood, F., Pankhurst, F., Hall, V. and Sommerville, F. (2001) Addressing inequalities in health: New directions in midwifery education and practice English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting: London.
Publications from the institutional repository
Hall, Valerie and Virgo, Sue (2007) Evaluation of the Earlylink Project: a pre-birth to eighteen months home visiting and parent support service in East Brighton (an evaluation report covering the period of Jan 2006 to Dec 2006). Project Report. University of Brighton, Brighton.
Hall, V (2005) Thinking Aloud - a technique for uncovering multi-sensory learning in professional education. In: SRHE Annual Conference, 13-15th Dec 2005, Edinburgh.
Hall, V. and Hart, A. (2004) The use of imagination in professional education to enable learning about disadvantaged clients. Learning in health and social care, 3 (4). pp. 190-202. ISSN 1473-6861
Hart, A., Hall, V. and Henwood, F. (2003) Helping health and social care professionals to develop an 'inequalities imagination': a model for use in education and practice. Journal of advanced nursing, 41 (5). pp. 480-489. ISSN 1365-2648
Hart, A. and Hall, V. (2001) Addressing health inequalities: implications for curriculum planning and educational delivery. The practising midwife, 4 (9). pp. 42-43. ISSN 1461-3123
Hart, A., Henwood, F., Pankhurst, F., Hall, V. and Sommerville, F. (2001) Addressing inequalities in health: new directions in midwifery education and practice. English national Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, London UK. ISBN 1901697703
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