Mrs. Leisa Anderton MSc, PGDip, BSc, RNT, RN, QTLS, Cert-Ed

About

Within my clinical work, I have held a range of posts covering acute settings such as A & E and Admissions. I spent some time working on a rotation of urology and haematology and general medicine before specialising in long term health conditions and elderly care. This led to a variety of roles managing nursing homes specialising in palliative and end of life care and dementia as well as supporting those with other long term conditions. During this time I began working with developing training and education for qualified staff as well as support staff. This led to the eventual move within fulltime education. Over the past 15 years I have held a variety of positions and have worked with work based learning and apprenticeships and then specialising in Higher Education within the FE sector and then within Higher Education directly. As part of my roles I have had the opportunity to co- author course books that accompany the apprenticeship qualification as well as authoring and creating online support materials and a tutor assessor guide. I have worked on qualifications writing core content to underpin outcomes from Level 3 to Level 5 and I still support leading awarding bodies with writing content and marking their exams of the new T level qualifications within healthcare . Since working at the university, I have continued to pursue my interest in using technology to support healthcare and education and have published frequently on my involvement in this area. My emerging reputation within this area has lead to my involvement in several key national reports and strategies and I currently work in several working groups on developing policies and practices that shape the use of digital and immersive technologies and analytics within healthcare education. My expertise in using XR technology has lead to work with other universities as a consultant to assist with their implementation of these technologies within their curriculum. I am involved in global committees working on shaping the experiences and use of XR technologies within both healthcare and healthcare education. My most recent role within the department has been as the Lead for Digital Simulation, this has been an opportunity to develop both our classroom based approaches to simulation as well as developing innovative ways to replicate environments, through digital and XR technology. I am a peer reviewer for the journal of Clinical Simulation in Nursing within these areas and I have presented on the use of Digital Technologies and AI at several conferences.

Teaching

School of Health and Social Care

College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences

My teaching interest areas are: Research for Practice, Long term conditions, Dementia, End of Life Care, Telehealth, Technology enhanced practice.

Subject Area

I teach across a range of subjects and have the following module leader responsibilities.

Module Leader for Research for Practice; Evaluating Research Methodologies; Managing Lon-term Condition and Healthcare Analytics & AI.

Courses

- BSc & MSc In Nursing
- MSc IN Healthcare Analytics & AI
- Post-registration CPD modules
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Modules

All aspects of the Nursing programme at undergraduate and post -graduate level. I specialise in long-term conditions; end of life care; dementia; research; telehealth and XR technology, analytics and AI.

Research

• Health Research Institute

My research interests focus on the use of technology/ telehealth to support healthcare and education. I have a particular interest in XR technology and simulation and their uses within both healthcare and education.

Anderton, L. (2020). Virtual reality: its role in tackling loneliness and helping people with long-term conditions. Journal of Community Nursing, 6 (4), 44-48. https://www.journalofpracticenursing.co.uk/journals/issue/12-2020/article/virtual-reality-its-role-in-tackling-loneliness-and-helping-people-with-long-term-conditions

Anderton, L., & Procter, P. (n.d.). The application of Virtual Reality to assess emotional responses. Simulation in Healthcare: Journal of the society for simulation in healthcare.

Immersive Heathcare Collaboration, (2021). Immersive technologies in healthcare training & education: three principles for progress. University of Leeds.

Anderton, L. (2021). Virtual reality to assess emotional responses in healthcare. [Online Article]. https://www.healthysimulation.com/30972/vr-application-emotional-assessment

Anderton, L. (2023). Staying ahead of the curve. Presented at: Healthcare Analytics and AI conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 2023

Anderton, L. (2023). Mixing Reality. Presented at: Healthcare Analytics and AI conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 2023

Anderton, L. (2019). Exploring hierarchy deferral in medication administration through simulation. Presented at: Teaching and Learning Conference, Sheffield, UK, 2019

Interviews:

https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sheffield-Hallam-Final-A4.pdf

https://digital-transformation.hee.nhs.uk/building-a-digital-workforce/current-status-of-digital-technology-in-health-and-care-education/overall-key-findings-the-digital-technologies-and-methodologies-currently-used/why-are-digital-technologies-used (Case Study 7)

Relevant Projects

XR use within simulation and digital learning within simulation. Digitally enabling the workforce.

Publications

Other activities

Peer Reviewer for journal of Clinical Simulation in Nursing

Committee Member for Health and Education/ Higher Education VR/AR Association

Committee Member International Nursing Informatics Conference