Professor Rose McCabe

Overview

Rose McCabe is Professor of Clinical Communication at City, University of London and co-Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research at City. She is an Honorary Professor in East London NHS Foundation Trust, Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on understanding patient experience, professional-patient communication, the therapeutic relationship and developing interventions to improve communication, therapeutic relationships and outcomes of mental healthcare. Central to this work is involving people with lived experience in designing and evaluating new approaches to care. Key concepts of interest include agency, coercion, epistemic injustice, trust and engagement. She works across a range of issues (psychosis, self-harm, depression, dementia) and treatment settings (inpatient and community mental health care, emergency departments, primary care). She also works with community organisations and schools to improve mental health and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• PhD, National University of Ireland, Ireland
• B.A. Single Honours Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Employment

• Co-director, Centre for Mental Health Research, City, University London, Feb 2019 – present
• Trustee of a Mental Health Charity, McPin Foundation, Oct 2018 – present
• Honorary Professor, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Oct 2018 – present
• Professor of Clinical Communication, City, University of London, Oct 2018 – present
• Professor of Clinical Communication, University of Exeter, Sep 2013 – Sep 2018
• Honorary Professor, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Sep 2013 – present
• Honorary Professor, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Apr 2013 – present
• Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London, Oct 2007 – Oct 2013

Memberships of committees

• Member, The European Association for Communication in Healthcare
• Member, The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

The Assured Study

1 May 2019 - 31 Jan 2027
Improving outcomes in patients who self-harm - Adapting and evaluating a brief psychological intervention in Emergency Departments.

The SASH Study

1 May 2022 - 28 Feb 2026
A Psychological Intervention to Reduce Suicidal Behaviour in Adolescence.

THIS Institute Fellowship

1 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2026
Investigating mental health practitioners’ referral decisions to mental health services for people attending the Emergency Department for self-harm: A mixed methods enquiry

Schools solution focused programme

1 Apr 2023 - 31 Mar 2024
Co-designing a solution focused programme to promote mental wellbeing of students and staff in schools

Research students

1^st supervisor

• Aneta Zarska, Research Student
• Mimi Suzuki, Senior Research Assistant
• Oliver Matias, Research Student
• Elissa Thompson, Research Student

2^nd supervisor

• Liz Dudeney, Research Student

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