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Dr Yvonne Feeney

Dr Yvonne Feeney (PhD, MSc, DipN, RN)

Assistant Professor in Lived Experience (Medical Education)
E: Y.Feeney@bsms.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1273 873817
Location: Room 101, Trafford Centre, BN1 9RY

Area of expertise: Dementia, lived-experience in healthcare, empathy in healthcare, leadership and management in care homes, qualitative research, mixed-methods research.

Research areas: Medical and healthcare education, empathy development in healthcare.

X: @yvonnefeeney81
Linkedin: Yvonne Feeney

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Biography

Dr Yvonne Feeney is the programme lead for the Time for Dementia and Time for Autism educational programmes, and is the lead for Interprofessional Education at BSMS.

Yvonne is an Adult Nurse with over 20 years of experience working with people living with dementia in secondary care and social care settings. She spent more than a decade leading services for older adults, with a strong focus on person-centred care.

Yvonne completed her PhD at BSMS exploring the longitudinal development of empathy in healthcare students towards people with dementia.

Research

Yvonne is a mixed methods researcher and is especially interested in qualitative methodology. Her research interests include empathy in healthcare and education, dementia education, autism education, interprofessional education, experts by experience in healthcare education, and quality of life for people with dementia and their carers.

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Teaching

Yvonne has experience teaching, mentoring, and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as health and social care staff, across a range of settings. Her teaching focuses on dementia, ageing, lived experience, and person-centred care. She designs and delivers undergraduate and postgraduate teaching sessions and workshops, facilitates reflective learning with people with lived experience, runs a dementia SSC, supervises independent student research projects, and MSc projects. Yvonne is Module Lead for MDM121 Psychological and Social Aspects of Ageing and Dementia on the MSc in Ageing and Dementia at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Selected publications

Daley S, Hebditch M, Towson G, Feeney Y, Banerjee S. Student satisfaction of a dementia education intervention: a cross-sectional study of the time for dementia programme. BMC Medical Education. 2025 Jun 4;25(1):838.

Pena SR, Hebditch M, Daley S, Norris E, Jones C, Banerjee S, Feeney Y. Experiences of Dietetic Students Taking Part in an Online Longitudinal Dementia Educational Programme: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 2025 Jun;38(3):e70069.

Ojagbemi A, Daley S, Feeney Y, Elugbadebo O, Kola L, Gureje O. Participatory development of a home‐based depression care model with lived experience older Nigerians and their caregivers: A theory of change. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 2023 Nov;38(11):e6019.

Daley S, Hebditch M, Feeney Y, Towson G, Pooley J, Pietersen H, Banerjee S. Understanding the experiences of people with dementia and their family carers participating in healthcare student dementia education: A mixed-methods evaluation from the time for dementia programme. Dementia. 2023 Oct;22(7):1514-29.

Daley S, Hebditch M, Jones C, Bremner S, Feeney Y, Towson G, Wright J, Banerjee S. Time for Dementia: Quantitative evaluation of a dementia education programme for healthcare students. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2023 May;38(5):e5922.

Dhuga Y, Feeney Y, Gallaher L, White A, Wright J, Banerjee S, Daley S, 2022, Developing undergraduate autism education for medical students: a qualitative study, BMJ Paediatrics Open 2022;6:e001411. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001411

Feeney F, Daley S, Flaherty, Banerjee, 2021, Barriers and facilitators to implementing a longitudinal dementia education programme into undergraduate healthcare curricula: a qualitative study, BMC Medical Education, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02632-9