Michael Haslam

Michael joined the university in 2020 as a Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, moving from a similar role at Edge Hill University. In his current role, Michael is involved in teaching across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on pre-registration Nursing Degree programmes as well as supervising students undertaking MSc dissertations. At his previous institution, he was a Senior Lecturer in Nurse Education, leading modules and teaching across different healthcare programmes ranging from levels 3-7. There, he gained HEA Fellowship status. He has been an internal reviewer for the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) and has experience in organising academic and training events.

Michael qualified as a Mental Health Nurse at UCLan in 2005, and until 2018, worked in a number of clinical roles for the NHS. He started his career in inpatient services, working in both the acute mental health wards and PICU within East Lancashire before moving into the community, working for substance misuse services in Central Lancashire. Michael held senior roles within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and the Mental Health Liaison Team, providing assessments and interventions to people experiencing mental health crises. During this time, Michael also completed his mentorship qualification and his MSc degree in Personality Disorder (research) at UCLan.

As his area of special interest is working with Individuals with Complex Emotional Needs (Individuals with needs and problems which are sometimes associated with the diagnostic label of ‘personality disorder’), Michael currently delivers teaching across the Offender Personality Disorder HE modules and is now a module lead for the MSc in Personality Disorder programme.

Michael has experience in publication and of presenting at national conferences such as the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) and Social Media HE (SocMedHE) conferences. Taking a critical approach to mental health nursing, his research interests and publications focus upon the individual, cultural, and systemic barriers and facilitators to mental health care, especially for individuals who are experiencing emotional distress and crisis. Recent publications, for example, have taken critical approaches to the 4-hour target in Emergency Departments and to mental health nurse education. Michael’s PhD research is focusing upon the lived experience of care delivery and receipt within the context of mental health crisis. Michael is also interested in the barriers and facilitators to nurse education, especially for people from widening participation backgrounds.