Dr Geraldine Boyle

Professional biography

Research grant funding

2024 - 2027: PI, NIHR-funded study £437,000 (FEC)

SATTA: South Asian young adult carers Transitions to Adulthood: 

(with LOROS)

Study website: SATTA: South Asian Young Adult Carers’ Transitions to Adulthood
 

2010 - 2012: PI, ESRC-funded study (£248,000):

The social process of everyday decision-making by people with dementia and their spouses

(with University of Sheffield)

2010 - 2011: CI, study funded by Policy Research Programme, Dept. of Health (£225,000):

National study of Mental Capacity Act Best Interests Decision-making

(with University of Bristol and the Mental Health Foundation)

Note: My recent publications are available free (via open access) at Open Research Online:

http://oro.open.ac.uk/

Research interests

Young carers/young adult carers; gender and caring; social reproduction of caring; policy analysis in health & social care; gender and disability; living with dementia; mental capacity law and decision-making; lived experiences of long-term conditions; research ethics.

Professional/Research Networks:

Lead for International research/practice network on young people’s gendered caring

Member - Eurocarers (European Association Working for Carers)

Member - Young Carers Alliance

Research Roles:

Vice-Chair, Social Care Research Ethics Committee

Deputy Chair, OU Carers Research Group

NIHR & ESRC Grant Reviewer

Journal Reviewer: Children & Society; Ethics and Social Welfare

European Editor, Health and Social Care in the Community (2017-2020)

(Previously) Editorial Board Member, Disability and Society

Teaching interests

Teaching Qualifications:

Postgrad. Cert. in Higher Education Practice

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Programme Lead

Doctorate in Health and Social Care (2022-2024)

MSc in Advancing Healthcare Practice (2017-2022)

Module Chair:

​K827: Leading healthcare improvements

k828: Researching and evaluating practice

K829: Transforming professional practice

Academic Author/Contributor/Module Team Member:

Undergraduate

K325: Assimilating nursing - knowledge and theory

K326; Becoming an autonomous practitioner

K101: Introduction to health and social care.

K236: Extending your contribution to healthcare practice.

K210: Understanding nursing: knowledge and theory.

K316: Exploring practice.

K319: Adulthood, ageing and the lifecourse.

Postgraduate:

K805: Advancing Clinical Practice.

External Examiner:

MSc in Dementia Studies, University of Stirling (2015-2019)

Impact and engagement

BBC Co-Production 

Academic Advisor, Our Dementia Choir (2019); Dementia and Us (2021)

Acaemic lead, linked public engagement events in Belfast and Cardiff (2019)

Open Learn Resources

1. Writing your research proposal (2023)

Writing your research proposal - OpenLearn - Open University

2. Who are young carers and what do they do? (2021):

Who are young carers and what do they do? - OpenLearn - Open University

3. People with dementia and meaning in music (2019): 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/people-dementia-and-meaning-music

​4. Music, culture and dementia (2019): 

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/music-culture-and-dementia

Articles in professional journals and consultation responses

1. Boyle, G. (2023) Written evidence to the Inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group Young Carers and Young Adult Carers, Report Nov. 2023: appg-for-young-carers-and-young-adults-carers-reportlr.pdf

2. Boyle, G. (2013) Written evidence to the House of Lords Mental Capacity Act 2005 Select Committee, Evidence Volume 1, 20^th December: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/Mental-Capacity-Act-2005/mental-capacity-act-2005-vol1.pdf

3. V. Williams, T. Williamson, Boyle, G. et al. (2013) Written evidence to the House of Lords Mental Capacity Act 2005 Select Committee, Evidence Volume 2, 20^th December: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/Mental-Capacity-Act-2005/mental-capacity-act-2005-vol2.pdf

4.  Williamson, T., Boyle, G. et al (2012) Listening to the lady in the bed: The Mental Capacity Act 2005 in practice for older people, Elder Law Journal, 2 (2), pp. 127-134.

5. Boyle G., Williams V. et al (2012) Making best interests decisions – are professionals getting it right?, Journal of Dementia Care, Nov/Dec, 19-21.