Peterborough
0845 196 5530
Stewart.Piper@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD
• MSc
• PGDE
• RGN

Courses

• Research on undergraduate programmes, MSc and PhD pathways
• Health promotion at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• RN Nursing

Outline of career

Dr Stewart Piper is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where he lectures primarily on health promotion and the principles of research. His academic role includes lecturing on various undergraduate, MSc and Doctoral research modules and supervising major projects, dissertations and PhD research. He is the author of the textbook 'Health promotion for nurses: Theory and practice' (Routledge 2009), has published a number of articles and book chapters and presented at various national and international conferences on health promotion in nursing. The latter also formed the focus of his PhD studies which he successfully completed at Anglia Ruskin University in 2004.

Prior to entering higher education Stewart was a Health Promotion Specialist with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS work and before this he was an Accident & Emergency nurse. His last clinical post was at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge UK where he worked in the Accident Department as a Charge Nurse.

Research Interest

Scholarly and research interests are the relationship between health promotion theory and nursing practice and empowerment.

Selected Publications

Book:

Piper, S.M., (2009) Health Promotion for Nurses: Theory and practice. Abingdon: Routledge.

Book chapters:

Piper, S.M., 2007. Accident & Emergency: Theory into practice. In: Dolan, B. Holt, L. (eds) Accident & Emergency Care. 2nd ed. London: Bailliére Tindall

Articles:

Piper, S.M., 2011. Community empowerment for health visiting and other public health nursing. Community Practitioner. 84: (8): 28-31

Piper, S.M., 2010. Patient empowerment: Emancipatory or technological practice? Patient Education and Counselling. 79: 173-177

Piper, S.M., 2008. Promoting health. Emergency Nurse. 16 (8): 12-14.

Piper, S.M., 2008. A qualitative study exploring the relationship between nursing and health promotion language, theory and practice. Nurse Education Today 28: 186-193

Lewin, D., Piper, S.M., 2007. Patient empowerment within a coronary care unit. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 23: 81-90

Recent conference presentations:

2010. Patient empowerment: emancipatory or technological practice? Presented at European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) International conference on communication in healthcare, Verona, Italy. 7-10 September

2009. The nurse practitioner as empowerment facilitator: Individual action perspective. Presented at RCN Advanced Nurse Practitioner Forum conference & exhibition, Buxton, Derbyshire.20th & 21st November

2008. The health promoting Emergency Department. Presented at RCN Emergency Care Association annual conference: Emergency Care Matters, Warrington, Cheshire. 14th & 15th November