Professor Michael Traynor
Professor of Nursing Policy
Department: School of Health and Social Sciences
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0) 208 411 2536
- E-mail: m.traynor@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
MA (Cantab.) English Literature, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
PhD Department of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Nottingham University
RGN Cambridge and Huntingdon School of Nursing
RHV Polytechnic of the Southbank
Research Interests
The evidence based movements, research policy for nursing and allied health professionals.
And to a lesser extent:
Managerialism in healthcare
Job satisfaction
Bibliometrics
Teaching Interests
Research methods (chiefly qualitative) including discourse analysis and literary theory.
Biography
Curriculum/subject area
Nursing
Current work administrative and professional duties/roles
Head of Centre for Research in Healthcare Practice and Policy Chair of Nursing and Midwifery Research Team (from 2006)
Research
Books and book chapters
Traynor, M. (1999) Managerialism and nursing: beyond profession and oppression. London, Routledge
Rafferty, A.M., Newell, R and Traynor, M. (2004) Research and development: Policy and capacity building. In Nursing Research in Context; appreciate, application and professional development. Eds. Freshwater, D and Bishop, V. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan pp. 22 - 44
Traynor, M. (2004) Nursing, managerialism and evidence based practice: the constant struggle for influence. in: Unmasking Health Management: a critical text Eds. Learmonth M. and Harding, N. Hauppage, Nova Science
Peer reviewed articles in journals
Traynor, M. Davis, K, Drennan, V. Goodman, C, Mark, A., Peacock, R. and Banning M. (2008) 'Nurse entrepreneurs' a case of government rhetoric? Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. January 2008
Drennan, V. Davis, K, Traynor, M. Goodman, C, Mark, A., Peacock, R. Humphrey, C. and Fairley-Murray, S. (2007) Entrepreneurial nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom: an integrative review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 60(5), 459-469
Traynor, M. (2007) A historical description of the tensions in the development of modern nursing in 19th century Britain and their influence on contemporary debates about evidence and practice. Nursing Inquiry. Vol. 14 Issue 4, pp. 299-305
Traynor, M. (2006) Discourse analysis: theoretical and historical overview and review of papers in the Journal of Advanced Nursing 1996 - 2004. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Vol 54 No. 1 pp. 62-72
Traynor, M. (2002) The oil crisis, risk and evidence-based practice. Nursing Inquiry Vol. 9 No. 3 162-169
Lewison, G., Rafferty, A.M. and Traynor, M. (2001) Is nursing research typical of biomedical research? Research Evaluation Vol. 10 No. 2 pp. 97-103
Traynor, M. Rafferty, A.M. and Lewison, G. (2001) Endogenous and exogenous research? Findings from a bibliometric study of UK nursing research. Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 34 No. 2 212-222
Memberships and other responsibilities
Editor of Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (Sage) European Editor of Nursing Inquiry (Blackwell publishing) Member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Advanced Nursing (2001-2006) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Committee (from 2002 - 2005) Royal College of Nursing Research Society Royal College of Nursing History Society
Conference Papers and Invited keynote and other talks
Paper: 'The challenge to professionalism from evidence-based practice: the perspective of indeterminacy/technicality' at: The Australian Sociological Association National Conference, Aukland, New Zealand, December 2007
Paper: Traynor, M., Davis, K., Drenan, V., Fairly-Murray, S., Goodman, C., Humphrey, C., Locke, R., Mark, A., Peacock, R., 'The promotion of 'nurse entrepreneurs': a policy analysis'. Royal College of Nursing Research Society Annual Conference, Dundee, Scotland, April 2007
Paper: Traynor, M. Williams, J. and Caldwell, K. 'Evidence Based Practice And Expertise: A Spurious Tension? An Analysis Of Professional Literature' Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: Paradigms Dialogue, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 19-21 April 2007
Invited keynote paper: 'Making research links with universities' at Nursing Research Practice: Royal College of Nursing, London, November 2007.
Invited talk: Humanism and discourse analysis in nursing. Institute of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway, April 2008
Invited talk: Responses from medicine and nursing to the evidence based movement: indeterminacy and technicality. School of Nursing and Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 2008
Invited talk: Discourse analysis: method for research into health policy and practice. Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 2008
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