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Kate Gerrish
Professor Kate Gerrish
Expert consultant
Centre for Health & Social Care Research
Sheffield Hallam University
32 Collegiate Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2BJ
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/hsc/
Kate Gerrish is Professor of Nursing in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. With a professional background in nursing, she has developed a programme of research which has focused on the experiences and perspectives of different ethnic groups in relation to their access to and passage through health services and the health care practitioner's role in supporting these groups, in understanding cultural conflicts that can arise, the cultural congruence of services and how these affect the performance of health care professionals. In recognition of her contribution to this field, in 2006 she was appointed Adjunct Professor of Trans-cultural Nursing at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. For the past 5 years she has co-edited the international journal, Ethnicity and Health with Professor James Nazroo, University of Manchester. As Chair of the Research Society of the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom and through a joint appointment in the NHS she is actively involved in a broad range of committee work relating to research governance policy and procedures and scientific review in health and social care. Kate is a co-applicant on this project and brings expertise in the development of the proposed guidelines for research ethics committees and scientific review panels and academic journals.
Relevant recent publications:
Gerrish K & Guillaume L (2006) 'Whither survey research?: the challenges of undertaking postal surveys within the UK research governance framework.' Journal of Nursing Research 11(6): 485-497
Jirwe M, Gerrish K & Emami A (2006) 'The theoretical framework of cultural competence.' Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health, 12(3): 6-16
Gerrish K. & Griffith V. (2004) 'Integration of overseas Registered Nurses: evaluation of an adaptation programme.' Journal of Advanced Nursing 45(6): 579-587
Gerrish K Chau R, Sobowale A, Birks, E (2004) 'Bridging the language barrier: the use of interpreters in primary care nursing.' Health and Social Care in the Community 12(5): 407-413
Gerrish K (2003) 'Self and others: the rigor and ethics of self-reflexive ethnography.' In J. Latimer (ed) Advanced Qualitative Research for Nursing. Blackwell Science Oxford 77-94
Gerrish K (2001) 'The nature and effect of communication difficulties arising from interactions between district nurses and South Asian patients and their carers.' Journal of Advanced Nursing 33 (5): 566-574
