About

I am currently providing a variety of associate lecturer duties for the university.  These include doctoral and PhD supervision and teaching.  I am also an educational consultant and research project lead elsewhere.

Most recently I provided clinical leadership for the University of Derby Covid 19 Asymptomatic Testing Sites.

Prior to that role, I was deputy dean with leadership responsibility for research, clinical education, international and income generation at the College of Health, Psychology and Social Care.  Before that, I worked at the university in a number of roles including head of the School of Nursing.

I have a particular interest in the organisational structures within the healthcare industry related to supporting newly qualified nurses and practice and clinical education in general.  I am a founder member and national general secretary of the UK Clinical Nurse Educator Network.

Research interests

• Clinical nurse education
• Preceptorship
• Nurse education

Recent publications

• Transition to Nursing: preparation for practice
• An up-to-date list of publications and associated citations is available on my Google Scholar page
• Alternatively, see my University of Derby Online Research Archive pages

Membership of professional bodies

• NMC RNA and teacher
• HEA Fellow
• National general secretary of the Clinical Nurse Educator Network CNEnet
• UCU member

Professional interests

• Clinical nurse education
• Preceptorship
• Research philosophy
• Nursing ethics
• Nursing history
• Politics of nursing and healthcare

Qualifications

• Diploma in History and Historiography (Ruskin College Oxford)
• BA (Hons) History and Politics (University of Nottingham)
• PGCCE (University of Nottingham)
• PhD in Adult Education (University of Nottingham 2010)
• RGN
• RNT
• FHEA

Recent conferences

• An up to date list of conference presentations is available on my Google Scholar page

Experience in industry

I practised as a hospital-based (Derby and Oxford) nurse and educator from 1987 to 2005. I maintain a close involvement with the healthcare industry through local partnership working and national networks such as the Clinical Nurse Educator network (CNEnet). 

I am currently providing educational consultancy and research project leadership services for a number of universities.

In the media

• 12 March 2018 interviewed by Sky News about Brexit and NHS

International experience

• I have worked on a series of publications with my former PhD student Dr Yaw Wiafe based in Ghana at KNUST
• I have worked on a series of publications with nurse academics based in Iran at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Teaching responsibilities

• Supervisor for several PhD and professional doctorate students
• Clinical skills for nursing programmes
• A variety of lectures including preceptorship and clinical governance

Additional interests and activities

• Labour history. Particularly the Derby Lockout of 1833-4 and the origins of the labour movement.  I wrote the definitive pamphlet on this subject (2001) and have been consulted on a number of local projects related to the lockout.  These include a short film (2015), the restoration of the city centre mural and a photographic tableau by Red Saunders (2021 exhibited in the Museum of Making)
• Nursing history.  Particularly, the history of clinical nurse education.  I wrote Chapter 1 of the Routledge International Handbook of Nurse Education