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Dr.Dan Doran
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Assistant professor, nurse, carer, speaker, researcher, manager. Privileged to work with people enduring mental health difficulties. Opinions my own.
No health without peace - something I very much believe in. Peace takes many forms, from the psychological to the global, and all the connections in between.

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No health without peace
What will be the most pressing health challenge of 2026? Climate change? Artificial intelligence? Pandemics? Non-communicable diseases? These issues will continue to shape health and medicine. Yet acr...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Please sign if you don’t agree with the University of Nottingham suspending the training of mental health and children’s nurses in Nottingham. This is going to have a huge impact on the care of vulnerable children and adults in Nottingham.

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Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Comments from our brilliant new Dean here on proposed suspension and possible loss of #mentalhealth #child & #healthpromotion courses at the University of Nottingham.
As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public… |...
As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public he...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Faced with a growing genericism of mental health nursing courses more should be done to develop curricula that prepares MH students more fully for practice.
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Examining current challenges and future potential in mental health nurse education
Examining current challenges and future potential in mental health nurse education
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September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#ClimateCrisis affects everyone. Ttlaking meaningful steps to inspire #activehope may reduce rising mental ill-health, solastalgia, anxiety, and a range of other experiences associated with #climateemergency. Read more here. Free for 30 days... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Peace in mind: responding to mental ill health associated with the climate crisis through personally meaningful change - K Burns, D Doran, M Pearson, 2025
Aims: To explore the principles of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) framework in relation to climate change as a global threat to mental health. To intr...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"...you feel like the one that got left behind." Some research I did a while back on #friendship and #mentalhealth. Shameful plug I know, but seems relevant for why I guess some folks have made the move to "here".

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‘... You feel like the one that got left behind’: a narrative inquiry into the friendships of people who have endured mental health difficulties - D Doran, A Edgley, T Stickley, 2023
Aims: To explore insights between friendship and mental health through a critical narrative inquiry. To conceptualise friendship and inform public health approa...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:19 PM
#Nottingham is a "city of literature", part of UNESCO's creative cities network. Proud of these public spaces and our local libraries.
Quite taken by the Nottingham City public library. A quick glance but well used and busy and looks up there with any of the best academic libraries.
November 10, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Hopefully some better news on the horizon for #mentalhealth #nursing in the UK...

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Government to publish new NHS workforce plan in 2025
The Labour government has committed to developing a new long-term workforce plan for the NHS to ...
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November 8, 2024 at 11:49 AM