Dr Lucy Webb

My profile

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

Registered Mental Nurse, family therapy and child and adolescent psychiatry, substance misuse.  

BSc (Hons) psychology, MSc, Health Psychology

PhD

Other academic service (administration and management)

Professional Membership:

Nursing and Midwifery Council: Registered Mental Nurse (RMN): Registered Teacher

British Psychological Society: Graduate Basis of Membership

BPS Division of Health Psychology: Associate Member

BPS Community Psychology Section: Member

Expert reviewer

I regularly review for the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, BMJ Open, Journal of Substance Use and Clinical Nursing.

NIHCR Committee member/reviewer: Incentive Award Fund

Consultancy and advisory roles

Act4Africa: Consultant for mental health

Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations: Advisor in co-production

Butabika School of Psychiatric Nursing, Kampala, Uganda. Curriculum development

Community, charity and NGO links

Partner working with Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations. 

Act4Africa, Uganda.

Butabika School of Psychiatric Nursing/Butabika National Mental Health Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. 

Prizes and awards

2004: Best Pharmacology Paper, British Journal of Psychiatry.

2014: Best Research Award, MMU Staff Awards 

Interests and expertise

My research focuses on substance use, mental and psychosocial health, global mental health and co-production/participatory methodologies. 

I supervise PhD and Professional Doctorate students where their topics are relevant to my research interests. Professional background of students are not restricted to nursing; I am happy to supervise other social science researchers, including those with a practice background or have lived experience.

I have also chaired PhD vivas and examined several doctoral theses.  

Impact

Close up of a patient and healthcare worker holding hands

Compassionate end-of-life care

Improving social and health care for substance users, their families and friends, and the practitioners who support them.

Go to case study

Projects

Current projects:

NIHR project: End of Life Care for people with substance use histories

Tropical Health Education Trust/Dept of Health & Social Care: Curriculum development in mental health nursing in Uganda.

City of Manchester Commissioners: Alcohol Care Pathways: Scoping research and evaluation of needs in Manchester.

Teaching

Why study…

I have supervised several PhD students to completion. I can supervise a range of thesis topics and methodologies, and have a particular interest in substance use, social exclusion, mental health.

Postgraduate teaching

I am a mental health nurse and health psychologist, teaching across pre-registration nursing, continuing professional development in nursing, speech therapy/psychology, health and social care programmes, and supervising postgraduate studies in health care.

Subject areas

Mental health and wellbeing, substance use and recovery, exclusion and service provision

Supervision

I currently supervise several MSc students completing their dissertations, an international PhD student and a UK-based  student on a PhD studentship. 

Research outputs

Relevant recent publications:

Webb, L, Xin, S., Goodair, C. & Cheeta, S. (2022) Trends in Mortality from Novel Psychoactive Substances as “Legal Highs”: Gender Differences in Manner of Death and Implications for Risk Differences for Women.  Frontiers in Psychiatry 13:890840. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.890840

Webb, L. (2021). The psychosocial risk of being ‘extremely vulnerable’ during Covid-19 and the role of behaviour activation. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 2021 Jun;28(3):505. doi: 10.1111/jpm.12684. Epub 2020 Sep 17.

Webb, Clayson, Duda-Mikulin, Cox. (2020). ‘I’m getting the balls to say no’ Trajectories of recovery from problem substance use. Journal of Health Psychology. 27(1), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320941248

Webb, L. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown: A perfect storm for older people’s mental health. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 1 – 1. DOI: 10.1111/jpm.12644

Martikke, Cox, Webb, Cumbers, Gedzielewski, & Duale (2019) Brokering relationships, developing bonds: social capital in a volunteering project for care leavers.Children and Society 33(2) 111-125.

Cheeta, Halil, Kenny, Sheehan, Zamyadi, Williams, Webb. (2018) Does perception of drug-related harm change with age? A cross-sectional online survey of young and older people. BMJ Open 2018;8:e021109. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021109

Clayson, Webb & Cox. (2018) When two worlds collide: Reflection on co-producing evidence for substance use recovery. Drug and Alcohol Today 18(1): 51-60.

Webb, L. Cox, N., Cumbers, H., Martikke, S., Gedzielewski, E. & Duale, M. (2017). Personal resilience and identity capital among young people leaving care: enhancing identity formation and life chances through involvement in volunteering and social action. Journal of Youth Studies. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2016.1273519.

Webb, Clough, O’Reilly, Wilmott & Witham. (2017) The utility and impact of information communication technology (ICT) for pre-registration nurse education: A narrative synthesis systematic review. Nurse Education Today, 48, 160-171.

Galvani, Tetley, Haigh, Webb, Yarwood, Ashby, Witham, Peacock, Wright, Templeton & Duncan (2016).  End of life care for people with alcohol and other drug problems: An exploratory study. Supportive and Palliative Care 6(3):392.2-393. DOI: 10.1136/bmjspacre-2006-001204.23

Cox, Clayson & Webb (2016). A safe place to reflect on the meaning of recovery: A recovery community co-productive approach using multimedia interviewing technology. Drugs and Alcohol Today 16(1) DOI: 10.1108/DAT-08-2015-0044

Cox & Webb (2015) Poles apart: does the export of mental health expertise from the Global North to the Global South represent a neutral relocation of knowledge and practice? Sociology of Health & Illness. Vol. 0 No. 0 2015 ISSN 0141-9889, pp. 1–15 doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12230

Interview for Society for the Study of Addiction on women, research and recovery research.

 https://www.addiction-ssa.org/knowledge-hub/cause-and-manner-of-death-a…

Press and media

News clip for Granada TV: drug consumption rooms 2018.

Interview for SSA on women in research. 2018