Dr Jane Mullins

Honorary Research Fellow

Faculty of Medicine Health and Life Science

j.m.mullins@swansea.ac.uk

Basic Welsh Speaker

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

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About

Dr Jane M. Mullins, author of Finding the Light in Dementia, a Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers is a researcher at The Awen Institute, Centre for Innovative Ageing. With over 25 years’ experience in gerontological research, nursing & education, her overarching passion is to find effective ways of communicating with people living with neurodegenerative conditions & stroke.

As a dementia research nurse specialist in the memory clinics of Bath & Cardiff, she provided support to people & their families/carers during their diagnosis & ongoing care. Her nursing experience includes managing a care home for older adults, staff nursing in neurology & gerontology wards & coronary & intensive care units.

She has lectured in Health & Social Care at Cardiff Metropolitan University & the Masters in Long Term & Chronic Condition management & Gerontology & Ageing Studies. Her training experience includes delivering “Experiencing Dementia;” ethnodrama performance training with Re-live, developing DUETcare (dignity, understanding and empathy training) and authoring her blog and book: Finding the Light in Dementia, a Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers

Areas Of Expertise

Effective communication with people living with neurodegenerative disease
Creative research methodologies
Research ethics & mental capacity
Dementia
Blogging
Designing research with people living with dementia

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

BioPsychoSocial aspects of Ageing and Dementia

Research Methods

Personal & Professional Development

Creativity & Health

Research

Publications

Research Highlights

Burholt, V., Davies, J., Boyd, M., Mullins, J., & Shoemark, Z. (2022). A research agenda for promoting continence for people living with dementia in the community: Recommendations based on a critical review and expert‐by‐experience opinion. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 31(13-14), 1933-1946.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15537, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58061
Mullins, J. (2022). Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia. Dementia, 21(2), 595-597.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211054370, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59133
Naureen, N., Hudson, J., Stratton, G., & Mullins, J. (2023). Optimising older adults’ home spaces to enhance their physical activity level: an exploratory qualitative study protocol. BMJ Open, 13(2), e066940
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066940, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62602
Naureen, N., Hudson, J., Stratton, G., & Mullins, J. (2023). Older adults’ perspectives on physical activity and sedentary behaviour within their home using socio-ecological model. PLOS ONE, 18(11)
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294715, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65699
MEGHANI, N., Hudson, J., Stratton, G., Mullins, J., & Sahoo, D. (n.d.) A multi-method feasibility trial of a multi-component behaviour change intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity among ethnically diverse older adults. BMJ Open
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-084645, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67984

All Research

Journal Articles

Naureen, N., Hudson, J., Stratton, G., & Mullins, J. (2023). Older adults’ perspectives on physical activity and sedentary behaviour within their home using socio-ecological model. PLOS ONE, 18(11)
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294715, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65699
Naureen, N., Hudson, J., Stratton, G., & Mullins, J. (2023). Optimising older adults’ home spaces to enhance their physical activity level: an exploratory qualitative study protocol. BMJ Open, 13(2), e066940
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066940, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62602
Burholt, V., Davies, J., Boyd, M., Mullins, J., & Shoemark, Z. (2022). A research agenda for promoting continence for people living with dementia in the community: Recommendations based on a critical review and expert‐by‐experience opinion. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 31(13-14), 1933-1946.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15537, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58061
Mullins, J. (2022). Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia. Dementia, 21(2), 595-597.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211054370, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59133
MEGHANI, N., Hudson, J., Stratton, G., Mullins, J., & Sahoo, D. (n.d.) A multi-method feasibility trial of a multi-component behaviour change intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity among ethnically diverse older adults. BMJ Open
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-084645, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67984

Career History

Researcher, The Awen Institute, Swansea University

February 2020 - Present
Owner DUETcare (Dignity Understanding Empathy Training), Cardiff

August 2015 - Present
Lecturer (Nursing Studies), School of HealthCare Studies, Cardiff University

December 2018 - August 2019
Tutor (BSc Nursing Programme (temporary post), Open University

February 2017 - October 2017
Lecturer (Health & Social Care), School of Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University

October 2012 - October 2015
Researcher/Lecturer (MSc in Management of Chronic Conditions & M, Older People & Ageing Research & Development Network, (OPAN), Swansea University

November 2011 - June 2013
Epilepsy Research Manager (research contract), University Hospital Wales, Cardiff

March 2009 - February 2011
Research Nurse (research contract), Endocrine Department, University Hospital Wales

April 2003 - October 2006
Dementia Research Nurse Specialist, Cardiff University Department of Gerontology

September 2000 - April 2003
Research Nurse/Memory Clinic Nurse, Research Institute for Care of Older People (RICE), Bath

May 1997 - August 2000

Affiliated Positions

Research Governance Advisor, LAUGH, Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University

2015 - Present

Other Roles

Reviewer, Health & Care Research

2020 - Present

Public Engagements

Associate Member 3 Nations Working Dementia Group (Alzheimer’s Society)

Royal College of Nursing Forums-Research Society & Older People

Member of CARIAD – Centre for Applied Research in Inclusive Arts and Design

Member of CADR – Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research, Swansea University

Member of RESEC (Research in Specialist Care of Older People) (Welsh Govt. advisors)

Registered Dignity Champion

Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends

Affiliation with RNIB; Visibly Better project.

Invited Presentations, Lectures and Conferences

A Suitcase of Memories (joint presentation with co researchers carer and person living with dementia)

2017

Forget Me Not Group, Swansea
Tourism and the Sensory Self

May 2017

Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research, Swansea University
Tourism and Dementia: Listening to the voice of the person with dementia

July 2011

Welsh Centre for Tourism Research conference, Social Tourism, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Dementia Care: an Interdisciplinary perspective

2015

School of Health Studies, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Ageing: when are we old?

February 2013

Events and Hospitality Students, School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University (also presented in 2014 & 2016)

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Research Highlights

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Career History

Researcher, The Awen Institute, Swansea University

Owner DUETcare (Dignity Understanding Empathy Training), Cardiff

Lecturer (Nursing Studies), School of HealthCare Studies, Cardiff University

Tutor (BSc Nursing Programme (temporary post), Open University

Lecturer (Health & Social Care), School of Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Researcher/Lecturer (MSc in Management of Chronic Conditions & M, Older People & Ageing Research & Development Network, (OPAN), Swansea University

Epilepsy Research Manager (research contract), University Hospital Wales, Cardiff

Research Nurse (research contract), Endocrine Department, University Hospital Wales

Dementia Research Nurse Specialist, Cardiff University Department of Gerontology

Research Nurse/Memory Clinic Nurse, Research Institute for Care of Older People (RICE), Bath

Affiliated Positions

Research Governance Advisor, LAUGH, Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Other Roles

Reviewer, Health & Care Research

Public Engagements

Invited Presentations, Lectures and Conferences

A Suitcase of Memories (joint presentation with co researchers carer and person living with dementia)

Tourism and the Sensory Self

Tourism and Dementia: Listening to the voice of the person with dementia

Dementia Care: an Interdisciplinary perspective

Ageing: when are we old?