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Professor Edward White

Honorary Professor
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

Research Interests:

Professor White has broad methodological interests and expertise. In substantive terms, his personal interests relate to health services research per se, and to mental health and the efficacy of support mechanisms in professional practice, in particular. He recently held a competitive medical research grant [$248,000] awarded by the Queensland Treasury/Golden Casket Foundation to conduct an RCT to test the effect of Clinical Supervision on the quality of care and on patient outcomes.

Broad Research Areas:
Psychiatry, Clinical Governance, Clinical Supervision

Qualifications: PhD, MSc[SocPol], MSc[SocRes], PGCEA, RMN, DipCPN, RNT, MICR, FIBMS, CSci

Specific Research Keywords:
Mental Health, Clinical Supervision
E-mail
e.white@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2014
    White E; Winstanley J, 2014, Clinical Supervision: predicting best outcomes. Research Monograph., Osman Consulting Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
    Books | 2014
    White E; Winstanley J, 2014, The Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision, Watkins JCE; Milne D, (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell
  • Book Chapters | 2014
    White E; Winstanley J, 2014, 'The Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale MCSS-26', in Watkins CE; Milne DL (ed.), The Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision, Wiley-Blackwell, http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119943329.html
  • Journal articles | 2022
    White E, 2022, 'Is clinical supervision niche?', The Hive, Autumn, pp. 24 - 25
    Journal articles | 2021
    White E; Winstanley J, 2021, 'Clinical supervision provided to mental health nurses in England', British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 10, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2020.0052
    Journal articles | 2020
    White E; Brooker C, 2020, 'Mental health nursing: is Rome burning?', British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 9, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2020.0015
    Journal articles | 2020
    Winstanley J; White E; Saw R; Young T; Burmeister B; Nikolic D; Busto-Cornide I; Iglesias-Pena N; Boyle F, 2020, 'Development of the Melanoma Concerns Questionnaire (MCQ-28); refinement of the EORTC QLQ-MEL38 module', Psycho Oncology, 29, pp. 321 - 330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pon.5251
    Journal articles | 2018
    White E, 2018, 'Measuring Clinical Supervision; how beneficial is yours and how do you know?', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74, pp. 1437 - 1439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.13529
    Journal articles | 2017
    White E, 2017, 'Claims to the benefits of clinical supervision: A critique of the policy development process and outcomes in New South Wales, Australia', International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26, pp. 65 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/inm.12292
    Journal articles | 2017
    White E, 2017, 'Clinical Supervision: invisibility on the contemporary nursing and midwifery policy agenda', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73, pp. 1251 - 1254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.12970
    Journal articles | 2017
    White E, 2017, 'Clinical supervision: beyond the first flush.', J Perioper Pract, 27, pp. 95 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/175045891702700501
    Journal articles | 2016
    Barnes M; White E; Winstanley J; Reed R, 2016, 'Clinical supervision and continuing professional development for midwives in Queensland, Australia : findings from an online survey', Focus on Health Professional Education, 14, pp. 1 - 11, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=344004471383764;res=IELHEA
    Journal articles | 2016
    Goodyear RK; Borders LDA; Chang CY; Guiffrida DA; Hutman H; Kemer G; Watkins CE; White E, 2016, 'Prioritizing questions and methods for an international and interdisciplinary supervision research agenda: Suggestions by eight scholars', Clinical Supervisor, 35, pp. 117 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07325223.2016.1153991
    Journal articles | 2015
    Winstanley JB; Young TE; Boyle FM; Bergenmar M; Bottomley A; Burmeister B; Campana LG; Garioch JJ; King M; Nikolic DV; Van De Poll-Franse LV; Saw R; Thompson JF; White EG, 2015, 'Cross-cultural development of a quality-of-life measure for patients with melanoma: Phase 3 testing of an EORTC Melanoma Module', Melanoma Research, 25, pp. 47 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CMR.0000000000000122
    Journal articles | 2014
    Best D; White E; Cameron J; Guthrie A; Hunter B; Hall K; Leicester S; Lubman DI, 2014, 'A model for predicting clinician satisfaction with clinical supervision', Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 32, pp. 67 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07347324.2014.856227
    Journal articles | 2014
    White E; Winstanley J, 2014, 'Clinical Supervision and the Helping Professions: An Interpretation of History', Clinical Supervisor, 33, pp. 3 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07325223.2014.905226
    Journal articles | 2013
    Myors K; Schmied V; White E, 2013, 'Child and family health nurses working with families of preschool-aged children', Journal of Clinical Nursing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12249
    Journal articles | 2013
    White E; Winstanley J, 2013, 'Clinical Supervision as a contribution to patient safety in health services facilities: the case of Jimmy Savile and echoes of Beverly Allitt. .', Australian College of Mental Health Nurses News, pp. 15 - 15
    Journal articles | 2013
    White E, 2013, 'Comment on: Thompson D.R. & Darbyshire P. (2013) Is academic nursing being sabotaged by its own killer elite? Journal of Advanced Nursing 69 (1), 1-3.', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 69, pp. 1214 - 1215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.12106
    Journal articles | 2013
    White E, 2013, 'Killer elite of academic nursing; if only it was 'an absence of professors'', Journal of Advanced Nursing, pp. 1214 - 1215
    Journal articles | 2013
    Winstanley J; White E; Boyle FM; Thompson JF, 2013, 'What are the pertinent quality-of-life issues for melanoma cancer patients? Aiming for the development of a new module to accompany the EORTC core questionnaire', Melanoma Research, 23, pp. 167 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CMR.0b013e32835e5932
    Journal articles | 2013
    Winstanley J; White E, 2013, 'Nordic translations of the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale: A rejoinder', International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 22, pp. 190 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2012.00876.x
    Journal articles | 2012
    White E, 2012, 'Challenges that may arise when conducting real-life nursing research', Nurse Researcher, 19, pp. 15 - 20
    Journal articles | 2012
    Winstanley J; White E, 2012, 'Letter to the Editor: Nordic translations of the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale ©: A rejoinder', Journal of Nursing Management, 20, pp. 948 - 950, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/JONM.12000
    Journal articles | 2012
    Winstanley J; White E, 2012, 'Nordic translations of the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale: a rejoinder', Journal of Nursing Management, 20, pp. 948 - 950
    Journal articles | 2011
    Roche M; Duffield C; White E, 2011, 'Factors in the practice environment of nurses working in inpatient mental health: A partial least squares path modeling approach', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48, pp. 1475 - 1486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.07.001
    Journal articles | 2011
    Winstanley J; White E, 2011, 'Clinical Supervision for mental health professionals: The evidence base', Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 14, pp. 77 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/095352211x623227
    Journal articles | 2011
    Winstanley J; White E, 2011, 'The MCSS-26©: Revision of the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale© Using the Rasch Measurement Model', Journal of Nursing Measurement, 19, pp. 160 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1061-3749.19.3.160
    Journal articles | 2010
    White E; Winstanley J, 2010, 'A randomised controlled trial of clinical supervision: selected findings from a novel Australian attempt to establish the evidence base for casual relationships with quality of care and patient outcomes, as an informed contribution to mental health nursing practice development', Journal of Research in Nursing, 15, pp. 151 - 167
    Journal articles | 2010
    White E; Winstanley J, 2010, 'Clinical supervision: outsider reports of a research-driven implementation programme in Queensland, Australia', Journal of Nursing Management, 18, pp. 689 - 696
    Journal articles | 2010
    White E; Winstanley J, 2010, 'Does clinical supervision lead to better patient outcomes in mental health nursing?', NursingTimes, 106, pp. 16 - 18
    Journal articles | 2010
    White E; Winstanley J, 2010, 'Erratum: Implementation of Clinical Supervision: Educational preparation and subsequent diary accounts of the practicalities involved, from an Australian mental health nursing innovation (Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (2009) 16 (895-903))', Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 17, pp. 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01547.x
    Journal articles | 2010
    White E, 2010, 'Clinical practice development', Journal of Research in Nursing, 15, pp. 101 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987109357823
    Journal articles | 2010
    White E, 2010, 'QUALITY OF CARE AND PATIENT OUTCOMES: A RANDOMISED TRIAL OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION IN MENTAL HEALTH SETTINGS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA', EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY, 25, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000208225800191&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2010
    White IE; Winstanley J, 2010, 'Implementation of Clinical Supervision: educational preparation and subsequent diary accounts of the practicalities involved, from an Australian mental health nursing innovation (vol 16, pg 895, 2009)', JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 17, pp. 96 - 96, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000273550000013&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2009
    Haines RS; Wu AH; Zhang H; Coffey J; Huddle T; Lafountaine J; Lim Z; White E; Tuong NT; Lamb RN, 2009, 'Self-cleaning surfaces: A third-year undergraduate research project', Journal of Chemical Education, 86, pp. 365 - 367
    Journal articles | 2009
    White E; Winstanley J, 2009, 'Clinical supervision for nurses working in mental health settings in Queensland, Australia:A randomised controlled trial in progress and emergent challenges', Journal of Research in Nursing, 14, pp. 263 - 276
    Journal articles | 2009
    White E; Winstanley J, 2009, 'Implementation of Clinical Supervision: educational preparation and subsequent diary accounts of the practicalities involved, from and Australian mental health nursing innovation', Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 16, pp. 895 - 903
    Journal articles | 2007
    White E, 2007, 'Professorial mental health nursing appointments: Letter to the Editor', International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 16, pp. 453 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2007.00504.x
    Journal articles | 2006
    White E; Roche M, 2006, 'A selective review of mental health nursing in New South Wales, Australia, in relation to clinical supervision', International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 15, pp. 209 - 219
    Journal articles | 2006
    White E; Winstanley J, 2006, 'Cost and resource implications of clinical supervision: an Australian perspective', Journal of Nursing Management, 14, pp. 628 - 629
    Journal articles | 2006
    White E, 2006, 'Deriving international consensus on mentorship in doctoral education', Journal of Research in Nursing, 11, pp. 355 - 356
    Journal articles | 2006
    White E, 2006, 'Review: Deriving international consensus on mentorship in doctoral education', Journal of Research in Nursing, 11, pp. 355 - 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987106064213
    Journal articles | 2005
    White E; Winstanley J, 2005, 'Mapping nursing research: A methodological model', Journal of Research in Nursing, 10, pp. 661 - 676
    Journal articles | 2005
    White E, 2005, 'Strengthening the nursing research endeavour: Key strategic factors', Journal of Research in Nursing, 10, pp. 365 - 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/174498710501000401
    Journal articles | 2004
    White E; Winstanley J, 2004, 'Mental health nursing and clinical supervision.', Health Law in Canada, 24, pp. 43 - 47
    Journal articles | 2004
    White E, 2004, 'Making my mark.', Nurse Researcher, 11, pp. 77 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr2004.04.11.3.77.c6207
    Journal articles | 2003
    White E, 2003, 'The struggle for methodological orthodoxy in nursing research: the case of mental health.', International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 12, pp. 88 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-0979.2003.00274.x
    Journal articles | 2001
    White E; Brooker C, 2001, 'The Fourth Quinquennial National Community Mental Health Nursing Census of England and Wales', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 38, pp. 61 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7489(00)00050-X
    Journal articles | 1999
    Butterworth T; Carson J; Jeacock J; White E; Clements A, 1999, 'Stress, coping, burnout and job satisfaction in British nurses: Findings from the clinical supervision evaluation project', Stress Medicine, 15, pp. 27 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1700(199901)15:1<27::AID-SMI782>3.0.CO;2-U
    Journal articles | 1999
    White E, 1999, 'The 4th quinquennial national community mental health nursing census of England and Wales.', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 8, pp. 86 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-0979.1999.00137.x
    Journal articles | 1998
    Butterworth T; White E; Carson J; Jeacock J; Clements A, 1998, 'Developing and evaluating clinical supervision in the United Kingdom', EDTNA ERCA Journal, 24, pp. 2 - 8
    Journal articles | 1998
    White E; Butterworth T; Bishop V; Carson J; Jeacock J; Clements A, 1998, 'Clinical supervision: Insider reports of a private world', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 28, pp. 185 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00743.x
    Journal articles | 1997
    Butterworth T; Jeacock J; Clements A; Carson J; White E, 1997, 'Clinical supervision: a hornet's nest? ... or honey pot?', Nursing Times, 93, pp. 27 - 29
    Journal articles | 1997
    White E; Brooker C, 1997, 'Survey methodology and the issue of response rate: The case example of a community mental health nursing census', Journal of Research in Nursing, 2, pp. 164 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/174498719700200303
    Journal articles | 1996
    Davies S; White E; Riley E; Twinn S, 1996, 'How can nurse teachers be more effective in practice settings?', Nurse Education Today, 16, pp. 19 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0260-6917(96)80088-8
    Journal articles | 1996
    White E, 1996, 'Clinical supervision and project 2000: The identification of some substantive issues', Journal of Research in Nursing, 1, pp. 102 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/174498719600100206
    Journal articles | 1995
    White E, 1995, 'Capital care.', Nursing Times, 91, pp. 56 - 57
    Journal articles | 1995
    Wilson-Bamet J; Butterworth T; White E; Twinn S; Davies S; Riley L, 1995, 'Articles', Nursing Management, 2, pp. 26 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nm.2.4.26.s20
    Journal articles | 1995
    Wilson‐Barnett J; Butterworth T; White E; Twinn S; Davies S; Riley L, 1995, 'Clinical support and the Project 2000 nursing student: factors influencing this process', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 21, pp. 1152 - 1158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21061152.x
    Journal articles | 1994
    White E, 1994, 'A different world.', Nursing Times, 90, pp. 52 - 53
    Journal articles | 1991
    White E; Brooker C, 1991, 'Mental health. The care programme approach.', Nursing Times, 87, pp. 66 - 67
    Journal articles | 1991
    White E, 1991, 'A Delphi study on psychiatric nursing.', Nursing Times, 87, pp. 48 - 49
    Journal articles | 1990
    White E; Brooker C, 1990, 'The standing advisory group for community psychiatric nursing: grasping the nettle?', Nurse Education Today, 10, pp. 63 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0260-6917(90)90141-C
    Journal articles | 1989
    White E, 1989, 'Chinese whispers: the folklore of community psychiatric nursing manpower planning targets', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 14, pp. 373 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01543.x
    Journal articles | 1987
    White E, 1987, 'Psychiatric skills. Well supported.', Nursing Times, 83, pp. 36 - 38
  • Conference Presentations | 2024
    White E, 2024, 'Summary profiles of participants at the 17th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision [IICCS] at Redlands University, California, USA', presented at 17th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision [IICCS, Redlands University. California. USA, 12 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, https://dev2w.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/cape/iiccs2024
    Conference Papers | 2022
    White E, 2022, 'Clinical Supervision and Mental Health Nursing: a polemical review of contemporary issues', St Catherine's College, Oxford. ENGLAND, presented at 28th International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference, St Catherine's College, Oxford. ENGLAND, 08 September 2022 - 09 September 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    White E, 2022, 'Clinical supervision: contemporary issues', presented at International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom, 08 September 2022 - 09 September 2022
    Reports | 2014
    White E; Winstanley J, 2014, Clinical supervision development programme (training and evaluation), West London Mental Health, London
    Reports | 2009
    White E; Winstanley J, 2009, Quality of care and patient outcomes; a randomised controlled trial of Clinical supervision in Queensland, Australia. Final Report, Queensland Treasury/Golden Gasket Foundation, Queensland
    Conference Papers | 2009
    White E, 2009, 'Clinical supervision: findings from an Australian randomised controlled trial', in Royal College of Nursing, RCN Events, London, presented at The Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom 50th Annual International Nursing Research Conference, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 24 March 2009 - 27 March 2009
    Conference Papers | 2009
    White E, 2009, 'Measuring Clinical Supervision: an Australian randomized controlled trial', in Royal College of Nursing, RCN Events, London, presented at 15th International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research conference, St Catherines College, Uni of Oxford UK, 24 September 2009 - 25 September 2009