Cambridge
0845 196 2529
leslie.gelling@anglia.ac.uk

Memberships & Qualifications

• PhD
• MA Applied Research in Health
• BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies
• Registered Nurse (RN)

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
• Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS)

• Member, Phi Mu Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International
• Member of Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
• Member of RCN Research Society
• Member of RCN Research and Development Governance Group (RDGG)
• Member of the Association of Research Ethics Committees (AREC)

Courses

• Health and Social Care Major Project (Masters)
• Social Work Major Project (Masters)
• Research Studies Module (Masters)
• Faculty Doctoral Research Training Programme
• Cross-Faculty Research Training Programme

Career

After training at the Isle of Man Centre for Nurse Education Lesley qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1991. He then gained clinical experience in general medicine and critical care in London (Royal London Hospital, Newham General Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital) and Cambridge (Paediatric ICU, John Farman ICU and Transplant ICU). In 1997, Lesley joined the Academic Neurosurgery Unit at the University of Cambridge where he worked on several large research studies and as part of the Cambridge Coma Study Group. In 2003 he joined the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Anglia Ruskin University. Leslie is also the Director of Research for the Faculty.

Other current positions and responsibilities include:

• Editor of 'Nurse Researcher: the International Journal of Research Methodology in Nursing and Health Care'
• Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Chair, Cambridge South Research Ethics Committee
• Chair, Faculty Research Ethics Panel
• Director of Research for the Faculty
• Chair, Competency Framework for Clinical Research Nurses Working Group
• Member, Research Ethics Sub-committee

Research Interest

Research ethics and governance
Role of hope in health and illness

Selected Publications

Gelling L, Munn-Giddings C (In press) Ethical review of action research: the challenges for researchers and research ethics committees. Research Ethics.

Gelling L (2011) The complexities of using grounded theory. Nurse Researcher. 18(4), 4-5.

Edmonds M, Gelling L (2010) The complexities of grounded theory: a commentary. Nurse Researcher.

Gelling L (2011) Review: strategies to engage clinical staff in subject recruitment. Journal of Research in Nursing. 16(4), 333-334.

Gelling L (2010) Phenomenology: the methodological minefield. Nurse Researcher. 17(2), 4-7.

Talbot D, Gelling L, Prady H, Yeung V, Twelves C, Davies J, Berrow M (2010) Research nurses and informed consent in CTIMP studies. CRfocus. 21(6), 32-36.

Gelling L (2010) Gaining access to the research site. In: Gerrish K, Lacey A (Editors) The research process in nursing. 6th Edition. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.

Smajdor A, Sydes MR, Gelling L, Wilkinson MJ (2009) Applying for ethical approval for research in the UK. British Medical Journal. 339, 968-971.

Gelling L, McVicar AJ (2009) Living with Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: a Grounded Theory study. British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. 5(4), 173-178.

Gelling L, Ellis G (2007) Factors influencing decisions to participate in clinical research. Clinical Research Focus. 18(10), 5-10.