Over his career, Steven has had three main research interests:

• children and young people's mental health, especially primary care, self care perspectives and service design
• supporting students in learning
• occupational stress and psychological health, especially in relation to nursing and other health professions

Trained as a largely quantitative researcher (with a special interest in mutivariate statistical methods), Steven's methodological expertise subsequently developed into mixed methods approaches. He is an experienced systematic reviewer, having been involved in several NIHR-commissioned evidence syntheses. 

Steven's teaching focussed mainly around:

• mental health (particularly children and young people's mental health, primary care perspectives in mental health and public mental health); he is course leader for an undergraduate nursing unit in children and young people's mental health
• supporting students to learn
• research and evidence-based practice.

Steven has devised study skills packages (including online materials) that have been widely praised both within and external to the University. He is co-author of several study skills books for nurses, social work students, education professionals and policing professionals.

He was the the editor of a widely praised, core mental health textbook Mental Health Nursing: An Evidence-Based Introduction (Sage Publications, March 2011).

Steven's clinical research involved collaborating with a number of third sector and voluntary organisations championing children and young people's mental health. He was an unpaid non-executive director of a mental health Community Interest Company from 2021-2025.

Steven Pryjmachuk is Honorary Professor, Mental Health Nursing in the School of Health Science's Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work.

Steven retired from his substantive post in September 2025 after almost 30 years in nurse education and research. Highlights of his career include being elected as Chair (2017-18) of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK (MHNAUK) and as President (2018) of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN). He was awarded an inaugural fellowship of ISPN in 2026.

• 1985 BA(Hons) Psychology
• 1990 Registered Mental Health Nurse, RN (Mental Health)
• 1993 MSc Applied Psychology
• 1994 Postgraduate Diploma in Education
• 2003 PhD
• 2004 Chartered Psychologist, CPsychol
• 2014 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SFHEA
• 2026 Fellow of the International Society of Psyhciatric-Mental Health Nurses, FISPN