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. 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. I have a specialist interest in using XR technology and I am involved in global committees working on shaping the experiences within both of these areas. My most recent role within the department has been one of the Leads for 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.

Teaching

Department of Nursing and Midwifery

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 technology.

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.

Relevant Projects

XR use within simulation and digital learning within simulation.

Publications

Other activities

Member of AR/VR association- committee member for education & health.