Pamela Morrison MSc, BSc Hons, RGN
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Summary
I am an Adult Registered Nurse, and my clinical background includes a wide variety of specialities within Theatres, anaesthetics and recovery nursing across Scotland and Yorkshire. My clinical interests include surgical, anaesthetics, trauma and acute care. I have been a Senior Nursing Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University since 2007.
About
My clinical interests include surgical, anaesthetics, trauma, asepsis, infection control and acute care. I was part of the shock team on Glasgow for many years before moving to St James in Leeds as the Urology Sister in theatres.
I have been a Senior Nursing Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University since 2007. During this time, I have undertaken a number of roles including, Employability lead, Pebblepad lead, Module Leader on both MSc and BSc curriculums, Academic Advisor and Link Lecturer. I am currently the Year 1 Lead for the MSc Adult and MH nursing courses and a module leader for Part 2 placement within the MSc Nursing Curriculum.
I currently manage the nursing careers fairs and do a lot of work around employability, interview prep and job applications. It is a great privilege to see students through their journey from application to the course all the way through to entering the nursing workforce. I am the Link Lecturer for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust, Derbyshire Community Health services NHS Trust (North) and Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Kingsmill Hospital).
Teaching
School of Health and Social Care
College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences
Subject area
Adult nursing
Courses taught
I am part of the management team for the MSc Nursing programmes as the Year 1 lead for the MSc in Adult and MH Nursing courses that has a mixture of core and interprofessional modules.
• BSc Nursing
• MSc Nursing
Modules taught
I am module leader for the Level 7 Part 2 placement module. I also teach on the MSc level 7 Fundamentals of Nursing module, and the Nursing leadership module. I also teach the BSc Nursing modules Developing Nursing Practice and Assessing and Addressing Complexity modules. As well as the level MSc dissertation modules.
I also act as an Academic Advisor and Academic Assessor for students undertaking the BSc and the MSc adult nursing courses. I am an experienced module leader within the pre-registration curriculum, as part of this role I have been actively involved in developing, designing, validation and delivering programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Research
I am also currently a doctoral researcher based in Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. I was previously the Equality and Diversity officer for the post graduate research society @shsupress.
My doctoral thesis title is “Graduate Employability: Impact of Race & Gender in Nursing using ‘Quantcrit’ mixed methods”. My research is examining the impact of race and equality on the employability journey of nursing students who are transitioning into employment within the NHS workforce using a mixed methods comparative method, critical race theory, intersectionality and QuantCrit as theoretical frameworks.
My research interests are in employability, employment law, widening participation, NHS workforce and equality and diversity.
Other activities
I am a reviewer for manuscripts for the Pastoral Care in Education Journal and a member of the conference committee for the SLoE doctoral conferences (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
I have a wide range of other roles within the university. I am part of the academic integrity steering group and involved in ACP procedures as a chair for the university. I am actively involved as a committee member of the staff disability network as well as many other key university networks and external networks. I am an active First aider within the university and part of a rapid response team on-call in my spare time.
Postgraduate supervision
I am also a MSc dissertation supervisor for healthcare students.