Galvin Kathleen Theresa - Selected Publications#

These papers demonstrate Kathleen Galvin's breadth as a scholar and researcher both in theory, practice application and evidence for practice that span a range of health and illness contexts. Her collaborative work with scholars in UK and Sweden is influencing a new approach in care called 'lifeworld led care' as evidenced in the citation rate of key papers. One distinctive contribution is a new existential approach to defining wellbeing and its absence that is now being applied in practice in several countries, alongside a novel framework for humanizing care'. She has been recognised for her world leading research programme that explores peoples’ experiences of a range of health issues, using phenomenological-oriented philosophy to develop novel theoretical frameworks for caring practices. This includes contributions to new theoretical perspectives on well-being, suffering and humanising approaches to human services, timely and needed knowledge responding to current challenges in care systems. An important strand concerns the use of philosophy and the arts in developing insights that can lead practice, and contributions to the ethics of care field.

H index Google Scholar 34 (23 since 2017) i10 index 65 (43 since 2017) Total Google scholar citations 9321 (5490 Since 2017).

H index Scopus 22. Total Scopus citations since 2017 2194 (for 97 journal outputs ). Semantic Scholar H index 24, 2488 citations, with 171 highly influential citations.

1. 2009 Dahlberg, K., Todres, L. & Galvin, K. T. (2009) Lifeworld-led healthcare is more than patient- led care: the need for an existential theory of well-being. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 12: 265 – 271. (404 citations Google Scholar) (Scopus 198 citations)

2. 2009 Todres, L., Galvin, K.T. & Holloway, I. (2009). The Humanisation of Healthcare: A value framework for Qualitative Research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. 4(2), 68-77. (379 citations Google Scholar) (Scopus 170). Several applications to practice internationally have been published.

3. 2012 Galvin, K.T. & Todres, L. (2012) Caring and Well-being: A lifeworld Approach. Oxford: Routledge (301 Google Scholar citations) (Scopus 134 citations). A text drawing together novel theory for lifeworld led care.

4. 2010 Todres, L & Galvin, K.T, (2010) “Dwelling-mobility”: An Existential Theory of Well-being. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 5: 3 ( 5444 - DOI: 10.3402/qhw.v5i3.5444) (170 citations Google Scholar, 87 Scopus)

5. 2011 Galvin, K.T. & Todres, L. (2011) Kinds of Well-being: A conceptual framework that provides direction for caring. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 6: DOI 10.3402/qhw.v6i4.10362. Special Issue: Caring from European Perspectives, Edited by Karin Dahlberg, 6: 10362 - DOI: 10.3402/qhw.v6i4.10362 (118 citations Google Scholar, 70 Scopus)

6. Specific methodological contributions in qualitative methodology in nursing, for example,

a. 2016 Holloway I. & Galvin K.T (2016) Qualitative Research in Nursing and Health Care (4th Edition). Oxford: John Wiley (5th Edition is currently in print production). This is a key methods text, used in most postgraduate programmes developing qualitative research capacity that has been cited 4564 times indicating its influence in the field of qualitative enquiry.

b. 2014 Todres, L, Galvin KT, Dahlberg K (2014) Caring for the phenomenon of Insiderness: Phenomenological metasynthesis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Wellbeing. 9: 21421. A novel methodological approach to qualitative synthesis that is faithful to human experience. This output has been cited 133 times in Google Scholar and 88 times in Scopus.

Recent influential works that consolidate this theoretical foundation and demonstrate applicability to practice include:

7. 2018 Galvin K.T (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Wellbeing. Oxford: Routledge (30 Chapters with international authorship)

8. 2021 Galvin, K. T., Pound, C., Cowdell, F., Ellis-Hill, C., Sloan, C., Brooks, S. & Ersser, S.,

A lifeworld theory-led action research process for humanizing services: improving “what matters” to older people to enhance humanly sensitive care. 23 Nov 2020, In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being. 15, 1, 1817275.

9. 2018 Galvin, KT, Cowdell, F, Ellis- Hill, C., Pound, C., Sloan, C, Ersser, S Watson, R., Development of the Humanised Care Assessment Tool. Nursing Inquiry doi.org/10.1111/nin.12235. The tool is being used in UK and Denmark.

10. Professor Galvin has successfully attracted large scale EU funding (4.2 Million Euro) to further this work in Greece, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and UK, alongside training the next generation of thought leaders able to focus on care from the perspective of patients and older people. She is PI for this programme of 15 PhD studies funded by Horizon 20:20 MSCA ITN INNOVATEDIGNITY 'Training the next generation of leaders for sustainable dignified care for older people.' Four outputs have been published in international journals with a further 12 in preparation. These outputs concern dignity within digital technology and living well in care systems and are listed as examples of diverse applications from this research programme:

2022 Kebede AS, Ozolins L, Holst H, Galvin K, Dec 2022. Digital Engagement of Older Adults: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2022;24(12):e40192doi: 10.2196/40192

2022 Raja M, Uhrenfeldt L, Galvin KT, Kymre IG. Older adults` sense of dignity in digitally led healthcare. Nursing Ethics. 2022;29(6):1518-1529. doi:10.1177/09697330221095140

2021 Bhattacharjee, S., Galvin, K. T., Fotis, T. & Uhrenfeldt, L., 13 May 2021 INNOVATEDIGNITY: Co-designing Digital Health Technologies With Older People in Homecare Settings., In: Clinicaltrials.gov. NCT04884711

2021 Raja, M., Bjerkan, J., Kymre, I., Galvin, K. T. & Uhrenfeldt, L., The digital development within society that persons of 75 years and older in European countries have been part of: A scoping review protocol., 31 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. 11, 6, p. 1-7 7 p.