About

3) A significant contribution to Research and Innovation (R&I) I joined Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer, having previously worked as a Non-Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Since 2006, I have demonstrated a sustained commitment to developing my research activity whilst still maintaining a full teaching portfolio. Although I still carry a full teaching load, I am a research active member of teaching staff designated as having a ‘significant responsibility for research’ role and will be part of the SHU UoA 3 return for the upcoming REF. My profile, reputation, and expertise in the rapidly emerging area of health care workforce development is underpinned through nationally significant evaluative research and partnership working with both the public sector and third sector organisations. This means that I am quickly developing an excellent track record in successfully securing funding for evaluation projects, having secured funding worth over £380,000 to date. I will provide evidence to demonstrate how I have successfully integrated my teaching, learning and research activity together with effective professional and business engagement. This work provides an effective evidence base for developing and assessing the impact of new, non-medical roles. The evidence I will present consists of a number of interrelated strands based around the development and evaluation of the impact upon patient care of new roles and new ways of working. There is now a wider recognition of the need for evaluating new roles and the education that underpins them. As the need for health care workforce specialist expertise grows, I have made an increasing number of successful bids for funding through larger public sector organisations such as Health Education England (HEE). HEE are the strategic commissioners of health care education in the UK. The the majority of our post-registration, post-graduate students are mature, 'non-traditional' students. They have not come through the traditional education pathways and undertake part-time, post-graduate qualifications whilst working full time in highly demanding roles. To support the students I teach in reaching their full potential, a flexible, truly student-centred approach to learning and teaching is required. I have developed a pedagogical approach to learning and teaching, which uses an innovative combination of Knowles' views on adult learning (andragogy), Vygotsky's concepts of 'scaffolding' and 'zones of proximal learning' together with Allport's 'contact hypothesis'. This approach has been presented at a number of international medical and nurse education conferences. By undertaking relevant pedagogical activity and the dissemination of innovation to colleagues, I ensure that my teaching is engaging, effective and comes from a sound research-informed base. Understanding how to engage non-traditional students so that they may learn effectively is a central strand of my academic activity. Students have indicated that they appreciate the often-unorthodox ways in which I teach difficult subjects. This is evidenced in part by my consistent nomination for inspirational teaching and inspirational research supervisor awards.

Teaching

Department of Nursing and Midwifery

Health And Wellbeing

Subject Area

Advanced Clinical Practice

Courses

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice.

Modules

Contemorary Issues in Advancing Practice; Researching for Practice; Dissertation.

Research

• Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre
• Health Research Institute

Evaluation of the SYB Workforce Development Hub GPN Training Programme.

Relevant Projects

Evaluation of the SYB Workforce Development Hub GPN Training Programme Research Internship Programme Progression Evaluation Evaluating the Roald Dahl Specialist Nurse role An evaluation of the impact of Education and Training for Care Home Staff in Doncaster MBC (CHETE) An evaluation of the South Yorkshire Advanced Training Practices Scheme The use of ECP services by Care Homes in Doncaster.

Publications

Other activities

 I am a columnist for the Nursing Standard, writing a regular column on clinical issues, and I am a reviewer for the Nursing Standard and the Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Postgraduate supervision

I currently supervise 4 PhD students.