Stuart Guy
Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department of Pre-Registration Nursing
email: stuart.guy@worc.ac.uk
Stuart has been in Nursing since 1982 starting as an Enrolled Nurse General. Since gaining registrations in Registered Nursing (Adult and Mental Health) they have spent the majority of their career working in mental health with a national and international experience gained in a variety of secure inpatient and community settings. He has held a number of Senior Nursing Roles in Mental Health in both the UK and NSW Australia. These roles have enabled me to make significant contributions to the practice of mental health nursing and the care and treatment of service users.
He has an established professional teaching portfolio developed across a range of national and international higher education providers in undergraduate and post-graduate adult and mental health nursing. They have gained experience of teaching students at The Nightingale Institute London; Southbank University London; City University London; Coventry University; Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga NSW Australia; The University of Wolverhampton, Gloucestershire University; Oxford Brookes University and Worcester University in roles of Visiting/Honorary/Adjunct and Senior Lecturer.
Stuart can enthuse, motivate and facilitate student learning and intellectually challenge, students using a variety of methods of learning and teaching, including e-learning.
His teaching philosophy is based on the concept of the teacher as artisan and the work of Paulo Freire in his pedagogy of the oppressed. These philosophical underpinnings ensure that my pedagogy encapsulates inclusivity always putting the student at the centre of my teaching. It is rightly and a heavily imbibed relational approach in the sense that it actively seeks out the students as a key collaborator in the learning process. This approach is nuanced and purposefully adopted by him and utilises a lot of compassion towards the students journey of learning further reflecting a commitment to fairness, inclusivity and the promotion of equality and diversity. This approach has been consistently well received by the students who Stuart has had the pleasure of teaching across a number of universities now.
Qualifications
- HMHW
- M(Res)
- EN (G)
- RGN
- RMN
- PG Dip Soc. L.
- PGC (APHE)
- NMC Teacher
- FHEA
Teaching Interests
In all the mental health modules he teaches on he always tries and get students to think wider than the Medical Model by introducing Critical Mental Health Nursing Theory and Philosophy. This involves introducing student to the role of Psychoneuroimmunology as a normalising philosophy which views emotional distress as a normal reaction to problems in everyday living.
This also looks at mitigating the use of coercive measures in mental health nursing in compassionately deconstructing their uses in the areas of clinical observation restraint and seclusion and community treatment orders.
Stuart also teaches the mitigation of self- harm and suicide utilising and promoting the patient’s own agency through compassionate safety planning.
He teaches on the Year 2 research module and am passionate about engaging nursing students in research methods and evidence-based practice.
Research Interests
- Critical Mental Health Nursing Theory and Philosophy
- Research Methodologies: Human Geography, Ethnography, Grounded Theory, and Phenomenology.
- Psychoneuroimmunology in normalising emotional distress.
- Mitigating the use of coercive measures in mental health services – Deconstructing the use of Community Treatment Orders.
- The use and minimisation of coercive measures used in mental health services -Deconstructing the use of clinical observation, restraint and seclusion.
- Suicide Mitigation
- Compassionate approaches to nursing pedagogy
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
Recent Publications and Relevent Outputs
2023 - ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ Students Choice Award for Exceptional Personal Academic Tutor.
2021 - Project Lead Erasmus Project (University of Gloucestershire) – Mental Health Awareness in partnership with European Partners ADICE, VIDA+VIVA, CCW Training Academy & CESIE – please see:
Dickens, C. Guy, S. (2021) Chapter 11: How Can We Support Staff to Talk Safely About Suicide? in: 'Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide: A Practical Guide for FE and HE Settings’ edited by Jo Smith and Sharon Mallon. Jessica Kingsley.
Dickens, C and Guy, S, (2019) “3 Minutes to Save a Life” How one University is addressing student emotional distress to mitigate the risk of suicide”. Mental Health Practice. 22 (3) 22-27.
2017 Dickens, C. and Guy, S. “3 Minutes to Save a Life” WLV journey, philosophical underpinnings of suicide mitigation approach, outcome and impact in Uni WLV. Concurrent Session at Wolverhampton University 3 Minutes to Save a Life: A World Suicide Prevention Day Conference, 26 September 2017, Wolverhampton, UK.
2017 Dickens, C. and Guy, S. “3 Minutes to Save a Life”. How one University is addressing student emotional distress to mitigate the risk of suicide. Concurrent Session at 23rd International MHNR Conference, 14-15 September 2017, Cardiff, UK.
2017 Dickens, C. and Guy, S. “3 Minutes to Save a Life” - Deconstructing student emotional distress to mitigate the risk of suicide utilising compassion and hope. Concurrent Session at Wolverhampton University Annual Research Conference 19-20 June 2017, Wolverhampton, UK.
2017 Dickens, C. and Guy, S. Suicide Mitigation “Why Compassion and Hope Matter”, Concurrent Session at Towards Zero Suicide Conference 23 February 2017, Birmingham, UK.
2016/17 - Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Support for Students. Through the implementation of the University of Wolverhampton “3 Minutes to Save a Life Programme”. See link:
External Roles
Educational Consultant - 4 Mental Health - Connecting with People – Suicide Awareness – Suicide Response – Self Harm Awareness – Self Harm Response.