Elizabeth joined Birmingham City University in February 2021 as Associate Professor of Multiple Births and Director of the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre. Elizabeth’s research interests focus on complex pregnancy and the organisation of maternity services.
Before joining BCU, she worked between Coventry University and University Hospitals Coventry within the Warwickshire NHS Trust where she was also an NIHR 70@70 Senior Midwife Researcher. A Registered Midwife since 2004, an interest in research led her to complete a Doctorate and then work as a Clinical Academic Midwife. She has an interest in innovation and digital health and was awarded a HEE Topol Fellowship in 2021. She is an advocate for clinical academic careers and has supervised clinical midwives at Masters and Doctors level.
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Catherine Clarissa
Nursing Studies, School of Health in Social Science
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-513X Clarissa is a Lecturer in Nursing (Life Sciences) and a Research Fellow in Nursing Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. She is originally from Indonesia and started her career as an intensive care nurse. Clarissa’s research interests lie in the area of the recovery and rehabilitation of critically ill patients and young adults after acquired brain injury. Clarissa is passionate about the global nursing workforce and the leadership development of early career nurses. She has been involved in the Nursing Now Challenge as a board member and the co-chair of the Nursing Now Challengers' Committee.
Roxanne is a postdoctoral ophthalmic nurse researcher, honorary Associate Professor at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and an NIHR/HEE Clinical Lecturer. She is passionate about improving ophthalmic patient related outcomes through the modelling of real-world clinical data to deliver personalised healthcare and has a particular interest in population health for underserved communities. She has been listed as one of 75 faces of nursing research for this year's NHS 75th birthday by the NHS England CNO research team. She recently won the Chairman’s award for outstanding contribution to Moorfields and the Nursing Times Technology Innovation Competition for Digital Practice of the Future.
Dr Kerry Gaskin is a Professor of Congenital Cardiac Nursing at Birmingham City University, the role reflects NHS and academic collaboration, leading and developing congenital cardiac nursing research and implementation of evidence-based practice across all children’s cardiac networks. The aim of the role is to work collaboratively with other key nursing post-holders, such as lead nurses, nurse consultants, advanced practitioners, and clinical educators to produce high quality research outputs. Additionally, the Professorial aim is to contribute not only to the academic development of staff and students, but also the development of a dedicated nursing research focused infrastructure within the NHS.
A Registered Children’s Nurse and Adult Nurse, Kerry worked in Children’s Cardiac Intensive Care, Paediatric Intensive Care and High Dependency Care at several specialist Children’s Cardiac Units and Children’s Hospitals in the UK before moving into academia in 2005. Her research focuses on parental experiences and home assessment using an early warning tool called the Congenital Heart Assessment Tool (CHAT), to enable parents to identify signs of deterioration in their infant and to make prompt contact with the appropriate health care professional.
Dr Bernie Keenan is a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University. Upon completion of her nurse training Bernie completed a first degree at The London School of Economics & Political Science. In addition to an extensive clinical career as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Senior Nurse, she completed an MSc in Nursing Studies at Birmingham University, and a PhD in Dementia Studies at Stirling University. She initially held a Lecturer/Practitioner post at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust & Birmingham City University. In her current position at the University, she has been module leader for the undergraduate Care of the Elderly course and pathway lead for the post-graduate Long Term Conditions course. Bernie has also held the posts of Chair of the West Midlands Institute for Ageing & Health and represented Nursing and PPI on the Birmingham & Black Country Comprehensive Local Research Network. She is also very proud to have been part of the Royal College of Nursing Quality Improvement Network in the West Midlands and the National Council for Women. In addition to her own publications Bernie has also acted as Research Peer reviewer for the Department of Health NIHR, Manuscript Peer reviewer for MK Updates, and Peer reviewer for OU Press.
Kaye is a lecturer at the School of Nursing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Kaye is part of the social media team. Prior to academia Kaye worked in intensive care and in NSWHealth role as a CNC for Knowledge Management for intensive care. Dr Rolls has several areas of research including social media, implementation, delirium and education. Following an aged care research fellowship, she has joined Professor Traynor’s ADHERE research group and is working towards improving outcomes for older adults.
Helen Sisson is a registered Children’s Nurse and Health Visitor, whose current role is as a Lecturer with the University of Hull. Prior to this she worked for The Oxford Vaccine Group as a research nurse undertaking clinical vaccine trials in infants and children.
Her teaching, research and publications primarily feature public health practice, research methods and research ethics, and attitudes around vaccination; her PhD investigated vaccination timeliness in preterm infants across a region in the East of England.
Helen's other areas of work include being a Member of the FHS Ethics Committee and NHS REC Leeds West.
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Michael Tatterton
University of Bradford/Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice
Bradford/Sheffield, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-7933-5182 Dr Michael Tatterton is an associate professor of children's palliative care at the University of Bradford and clinical director at Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, UK. He is a children’s nurse, health visitor, and advanced nurse practitioner.
Michael has a master’s degree in public health and a PhD in palliative care. His clinical research interests include children’s palliative care, family-centred care, bereavement, advancing nursing practice and nursing leadership. He has published and presented his research widely, working in collaboration with practitioners, organisations and academics in other institutions. Michael is a senior fellow of Advance HE; his academic interests surround the quality of nurse education, MDT working and nursing pedagogy.
Dr Gearóid Brennan is the Lead Psychiatric Liaison Nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is interested in the intersection between physical and mental health. His research has focused on nursing practice related to improving the physical health needs of people with severe and enduring mental illness. He has also collaborated with colleagues in public health. He is a qualitative researcher but keen on developing skills in other methodologies. He holds an NRS Career Researcher Fellowship that allows him to focus on research while working clinically. He is currently exploring research related to mental health in the context of emergency departments.
Angela is an Assistant Professor and Head of Subject (Nursing), in the Department of Nursing Midwifery and Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle.
Angela is a Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse and is a champion for the rights and inclusion for people with learning/intellectual disabilities. She joined Northumbria University in 2009 and during that time has successfully led MSc/BSc Learning Disability Nursing at Northumbria University to achieve local recognition as well as award winning national success. Angela is qualified to Doctoral level, and her research interests include women with intellectual disabilities in secure settings, learning disability student nurses in midwifery services and implementing forum theatre with people with learning disabilities across all fields of nursing curricula.