PhD MSc PgCert Ed RNT BSc (Hons) CMHN RMN RPN LRSH FRSH
Assistant Professor, Psychiatric Nursing (Winnipeg)
Phone: 204-772-0377, Ext. 877
E-Mail:  londonc@brandonu.ca

Research Interests:

Nurse Education; mentorship/preceptorship; Community Mental Health Nursing; mental health services research; Recovery; service user’s experience of mental health services. Dr. London is familiar with using both quantitative and qualitative methods and mixed methods, with particular interest in Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Personal Construct Psychology and correlational/ regression models.

I have been practicing as a Mental Health Nurse since 1989 and am registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (United Kingdom) as a Mental Health Nurse, Specialist Practitioner in Community Mental health Nursing and a Registered Nurse Teacher. I was initially registered with CRPNBC in 2008, which has since been transferred to CRPNM.

I have extensive clinical experience in a variety of settings. I have worked in acute admission wards for adults and older people, on rehab wards, in forensic secure units, managing clinical areas and community teams. My forte is Community Mental Health Nursing in which I have worked for at least 10 years. I also had a key role in developing, recruiting and managing and teaching on a post-registration psychiatric nursing conversion course for nurses with an initial registration in another nursing discipline. I made a significant contribution to both pre and post-registration nursing education through raising standards to support students learning and supporting nurses in local and university-based programs of education and training towards BSc and Masters degrees.

Before coming to Brandon University in 2012, I worked at Brunel University and University of East London delivering a Health Promotion module at the undergraduate level. I have also worked with nursing students at The University of West London and Buckinghamshire New University. I have been a thesis advisor for under and post-graduate students.

I was attracted to Brandon University primarily to be on the faculty to support students on the masters program.  I also discovered that Brandon University is a leader in the field of psychiatric Nursing, and I am proud to be associated. I teach on the quantitative and qualitative courses and on the Education stream of the masters program. In the undergraduate program, I teach Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery, Health Research Methods and Psychopharmacology.

I recently began my research program and will be initially exploring service users and Recovery. Past projects include ‘Winter Support for Older People in Westminster’ ‘Are public attitudes to mental illness and the mentally ill a function of knowledge and social distance?

My doctoral thesis, titled “Stigma and mental illness: a comparative study of attitudes and personal constructs’ employed mixed methods and triangulation of data. It employed an attitude scale, interviews with a subset of the sample of service users and members of the public and Repertory Grids (Personal Construct Theory). Analyses included descriptive statistics, correlations, stepwise regression, RepGrid Analysis and Factor Analysis.

I believe that I can make a difference to student learning through my eclectic approach. If, through purposive activities, in which I engage students, I can get students to think I would have done sufficient to effect learning. I always embrace any opportunity to engage in discussion with students and colleagues so that I continue to learn.  I am told I possess a warm and friendly personality, always open to constructive criticism and I believe my firmest asset lies in my approachability and reliability. I always make positive contributions and am always supportive of others.

Over the past years I have been acquiring knowledge, skills and attitudes in dynamic, progressive environments and my cumulative knowledge in Nursing and beyond amounts to a broad range of knowledge, skills, attitudes and experience. I can only be an asset to students and the faculty.