Biography
Frederick Yeung is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing with extensive experience in higher education, clinical practice, nursing leadership, research and service development in the UK and Hong Kong. His work focuses on connecting mental health nursing education, research and evidence-based practice to improve student learning, professional practice and service-user outcomes.
Before working in UK higher education, Frederick held senior nursing leadership positions in Hong Kong, including General Manager (Nursing) at Castle Peak Hospital and Chair of the Mental Health Nursing Specialty Core Group within the Hospital Authority. His clinical and professional interests include severe mental illness, family nursing, medication management, psychosocial interventions, mental health assessment, recovery-oriented practice, risk management, stigma reduction and service development.
Frederick has contributed to undergraduate, postgraduate and professional mental health nursing education. His experience includes curriculum and module development in family nursing, medication management, mental health assessment and advanced mental health nursing practice. He has also supported postgraduate and doctoral students through research supervision, research proposal development and scholarly work.
His published research has addressed family systems nursing in mental healthcare, schizophrenia and psychosocial interventions, stigma associated with severe mental illness, and health and community outcomes following discharge from psychiatric services. His current interests extend to simulation and clinical reasoning, evidence-based mental health nursing, patient safety, practice learning, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in nursing education.
Frederick is particularly interested in interdisciplinary and international collaboration that brings together universities, healthcare organisations, clinicians, students, service users and carers to develop research that can influence education, clinical practice and mental health services.