Dr Graham Williamson

Research interests

Asthma and pregnancy.

Supporting students in clinical practice.

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

1). Sherrie Hitchen: Personal Budgets for all? An Action Research Study on Implementing Self Directed Support in Mental Health Services . Successfully completed April 2013. ( With Prof Mary Watkins). 

Grants & contracts

Personal grants

Current projects:

1.         CLIP evaluation. Unfunded. Acute sector implementation, with Adele Kane et al.

2.         Developing community placements. Unfunded. ‘POPP’ study, with Adele Kane, sandy Knowles, Lisa-Marie Rowe, Beth hawks, Fiona cook.

3.       Collaborative Learning in Practice: A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the research evidence in nurse education.
£5000. HEESW. With Adele Kane, Danny Clarke, Hayley Plowright.

4.   COULD STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF CLINICAL PLACEMENTS BE ENHANCED BY IMPLEMENTING A COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN PRACTICE (CLiP) MODEL?’ (Community cluster). £10,000 HEESW. With Adele Kane, Val health, Jane Bunce. 

5. PREPARATION AND COMMUNICATION FOR CLIP. DESIGN, TRIAL AND EVALUATION OF REUSABLE LEARNING OBJECTS. HEESW £30000. With Adele Kane

6. CLIP PATIENT CARE AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES SERVICE EVALUATION PROJECT PROPOSAL. HEESW £20000. With Adele KAne

In discussion: RCT examining effectiveness of my asthma app for asthma and pregnancy. With Jill Shawe, Chev chamberlain and David Halpin

Previous Personal grants

Developing student nurse retention using action research. 2012-13 Pedagogic Research Institute & Observatory/Plymouth University Teaching Fellowship Scheme. £5,000. With Val Heath & Tracey Proctor-Childs.

Developing student nurse retention using action research. Institute of Health and Community, Plymouth University. Pump priming scheme 2011-2012. £1000. With Val Heath & Tracey Proctor-Childs.

Evaluating Lecturer Practitioner and Clinical Facilitator roles at the University of Plymouth. Research development funding. Devon and Cornwall Workforce Development Consortia. With Professor Christine Webb. 1999-2000. £14,250. Replacement salary costs

Arterial blood gas sampling elearning resource. Fellowship of University of Plymouth Centre of Excellence in Professional Placement Learning Innovations Fund bid. Sept 2006 £5000. With Sarah Dodds and Rob Stillwell.

CEPPL Innovations Fund Bid: Non-invasive ventilation Elearning Resource. With Sarah Dodds, Rob Stillwell, Helen Daggar and Claire Hullett. June 2007. £5000

Grants as co-holder

A pilot study investigating the feasibility of a care bundle on women’s experiences of asthma in pregnancy.           With Chervonne Chamberlain and Anita O’Connor. Plymouth University Alumni Grants Scheme. £5000. Oct 2016

A systematic review of the literature on women’s experiences of asthma care in pregnancy. With Kayleigh Elmslie-Jones and Anita O’Connor. Plymouth University School of Nursing and Midwifery Alumni Grants Scheme £5000. March 2016.

Investigating women’s previous experiences of asthma care in pregnancy. With Chamberlian, Williamson, Knight and Daly. £5000 RD&E small grants programme. July 2011.

Stakeholders online for smarter healthcare. April 2011. With Ray Jones et al. UoP CEPPL £30,000.

Short KTP: User-led learning for mental health professionals. Pilot study Jones, Williamson and Emmens. sKTP. £25,000. sKTP 1000313. Jan 2010.

Short KTP: To explore the impact of e-health support for patients at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital: pilot study for an RfPB application. Jones, Williamson, Chauhan, Sheaves. £25,000. March-Sept 2010. SKTP 1000260

NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D Programme. Programme of research on e-health. Scoping exercise EH2:

E-health policy context and consultation with stakeholders in the NHS. Reference WS20. With Professor Ray Jones et al. 2003-2004. £80,000

HEFCE CETL. Placement Learning in Health and Social Care.  With Dr Susan Lea et al. 2004 £4.5 million over 5 years. 

Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation NHS Trust Small grants programme: Investigating pregnant women’s experiences of asthma care With Sarah Dodds, Chervonne Chamberlain and Jacqueline Tipper. One year from Sept 2006. £2500.

CEPPL placement learning developmental activity. CEPPL research support: Evaluating the Implementation of Placement Development Teams in the South West Peninsula. With Val Heath and Lynne Callaghan. Programme of evaluation to begin Sep 2007 for 2 years.

CEPPL research support: Improving Student Support in Professional Placement Learning: Lessons from the South West Peninsula Pilot of a New National Placement Evaluation Process. With Heath, V, Ballantyne, E, Callaghan, L, Webster, D, Hunter, C.  June 2007.

CEPPL placement learning developmental activity.  Supported by CEPPL buy-out. Evaluating the impact of placement development teams in induction and introduction to professional placement activity using action learning. July 2008-2009. With Val Heath, Josie White et al.

Impact of e-health support for patients: pilot study.

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital: funded by RD&E and UoP, via a short KTP. Pilot for an RfPB application. £25,000. With Ray Jones et al.