Dr. Christine Hallett
Position in UKCHNM
Co-Director
Affiliations
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester
Qualifications
Academic Qualifications
Bachelor of Nursing
Bachelor of Arts (History Honours)
Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing)
Doctor of Philosophy (History)
Professional Qualifications
Registered General Nurse
District Nursing Certificate
Health Visitor’s Certificate
Post Graduate Diploma in Education
Publications
Most recent journal articles:
EVANS, M.J. and HALLETT, C.E. (2007) Living with dying: a hermenutic phenomenological study of the work of hospice nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16, 4.
MILLARD, L; HALLETT, C.E; and LUKER, K.A. (2006) Nurse-patient interaction and decision-making in care: patient involvement in community nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 55, 2, 142-150.
HALLETT, C.E; ABENDSTERN, M; and WADE, L. (2006) Industry and autonomy in early occupational health nursing: the welfare officers of the Lancashire cotton mills, 1950-1970s. Nursing History Review, 14, 89-109.
HALLETT, C.E. (2005) The attempt to understand puerperal fever in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain: the influence of inflammation theory. Medical History. 49. 1-28.
HALLETT, C.E. (2005) The ‘Manchester scheme’: a study of the Diploma in Community Nursing, the first pre-registration nursing programme in a British university. Nursing Inquiry, 12, 4, 287-294.
ABENDSTERN, M; HALLETT, C.E. and WADE, L. (2005) Flouting the Law: Women and the Hazards of Cleaning Moving Machinery in the Cotton Industry, 1930-1970. Oral History, 33, 2, 69-78.
HOPKINSON, J; HALLETT, C.E; and LUKER, K.A. (2005) Everyday death: how do nurses cope with caring for dying people in hospital? International Journal of Nursing Studies, 42, 2, 125-133.
HOPKINSON, J; HALLETT, C.E; and LUKER, K.A. (2004) Everyday death: coping with caring for dying people in hospital. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2004.
HALLETT, C.E.; ABENDSTERN, M. and WADE, L. (2004) The struggle for sanitary reform in the Lancashire cotton mills: 1920-1970. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 48. 3. 257-265.
HOPKINSON, J; HALLETT, C.E. and LUKER, K.A. (2003) Caring for dying people in hospital. Journal of Advanced Nursing
WADE, L and HALLETT, C.E. (2003) ‘The dynamic city’: recruitment to nursing in early-twentieth-century Manchester. Nurse Education Today. 23.370-376
HOPKINSON, J. and HALLETT, C.E. (2002) Good death? An exploration of newly qualified nurses’ understanding of good death. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 8. 11.
HOPKINSON, J and HALLETT, C.E. (2001) Patients’ perceptions of a hospice day care: a phenomenological study. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 38. 117-125.
HALLETT, C.E. (2000) Infection control in wound care: a study of fatalism in community nursing. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 9. 103-109.
HALLETT, C.E; AUSTIN, L; CARESS, A; LUKER, K.A. (2000) Wound care in the community setting: clinical decision-making in context. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 31. 4. 783-793.
LUKER, K; AUSTIN, L; CARESS, A; HALLETT, C.E. (2000) The importance of ‘knowing the patient’: community nurses’ constructions of quality in providing palliative care. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 31. 4. 775-782.
HALLETT, C.E; AUSTIN, L; LUKER, K.A; CARESS, A. (2000) Community nurses’ perceptions of patient ‘compliance’ in wound care: a discourse analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 32. 1. 115-123.
HALLETT, C.E; PATEMAN, B.D. (2000) The ‘invisible assessment’: the role of the staff nurse in the community setting. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 9. 751-762.
AUSTIN, L; LUKER, K; CARESS, A; HALLETT, C.E. (2000) Palliative care: community nurses perceptions of quality. Quality in Health Care. 9. 151-158.
Book Chapters:
2004. HALLETT, C.E. (2004) Puerperal fever in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In Madsen, W. (ed.) Women in Research. The University of Queensland Press, Bundaberg, Australia
2004. HALLETT, C.E. (2004) Puerperal fever as a source of conflict between midwives and medical men in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Britain. In McGann, S and Mortimer, B (eds) New Directions in Nursing History. Routledge, London.
Work in progress
‘The health of female cotton workers in Oldham and Ashton, 1920-1960’. Funding: The British Cotton Growing Association; joint project with Michele Abendstern and Lesley Wade.
‘The health of European Volunteer Workers in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1946-1975’; joint project with Michele Abendstern and Simon Phillips.
‘The Health of Female Shop Workers, 1880-1939’. Funding: The Wellcome Trust, joint project with Linda Walker.
‘Myth, memory and the Great War Nurse’: A Study of First World War Nurses.
The History of the Diploma in Community Nursing, The First Pre-registration Course for Nurses in the UK (1959-1979)
Contact details
Work address
School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work, University Place, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.
Work phone number
0161 306 7696
