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.
Social Media Deputy
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.
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.
Lead: Nurse Education (pre- and post-registration)
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.