Gary Hodge

Academic profile

Dr Gary Hodge

Research Fellow
School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Gary's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 03: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

About Gary

Gary Hodge is a registered Mental Health Nurse and Research Fellow working at the School of Nursing and Midwifery. He has a particular research interest in Social Care Research (care homes) and Qualitative/person-centred/lived experience (autoethnography/storytelling/art based) research. Although he also has experience in mixed methods projects and meta-synthesis (literature reviews).

Gary has been involved in a variety of projects, which include person-centred care home projects (multiple case study/ethnography), Palliative and End of Life Care projects (focus group/priority setting) and more recently Dementia projects (public engagement/journey mapping). He also has worked on a series of education (survey/focus group) and sustainability projects (action research).

Gary is a PhD supervisor, supporting both academic and clinical academic PhD students across a variety of topics within SNAM. He also has an interest in reflexive supervision, working with PhD students to understand and embrace their PhD project positionality.

Gary is part of the Early Career Researcher editorial team of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. He is also an Honorary Clinical Fellow of South West Clinical School(s), and an active member of the Researchers in Palliative and End-of-Life Support (RIPELS) group, the Realist Approaches in Dementia Evaluation and Research (RAID-ER) group, and Peninsula Dementia Research Group (PDRG). 

Teaching

I am a PhD student supervisor (inc reflexive supervision)

Contact Gary

InterCity Place Floor 8, Plymouth Railway Station, North Road East,, Plymouth, PL4 6AB
+44 1752 586554