My research interests include:

hepatitis C

transition

lived experiences

chronic illness

critical care and advanced life support

curriculum evaluation

assessment and feedback issues

enquiry based learning

I qualified as a Registered Nurse (Adult) in 1990 and worked in a variety of clinical settings including cardiology, intensive care, medicine and gastroenterology. In 1998 I completed a BSc (Hons) in Nursing Practice, followed by an MSc in Health Sciences in 2000 and then an MA in Higher Education in 2003. I joined the School of Health Sciences in 2001 as a Lecturer, with a PhD studentship secondment running from 2007 to 2011. In 2012 I completed my PhD; a study exploring experiences of living with hepatitis C; the results of which have been published and disseminated at conferences nationally. Since 2012 I have been involved in numerous evaluative studies relating to practice learning, practice assessment, enquiry based learning and nursing curricular reviews. I became the  Assessment Lead for the School in 2016, since when I have become active in assessment and feedback research projects. I worked as the Director of Education from 2020-2023, overseeing all aspects of teaching, learrning and assessment within the school. I was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in 2017 and have developed a specialism in the use of electronic marking. I am the Course Director for the successful post registration Acute Critical and Emergency care BSc programme. I work as a UK Resuscitation Council Instructor in Advanced Life Support and am also an instructor for acute illness recognition and treatment courses, working with multidisciplinary health care teams. I became an External Examiner at the University of Lincoln in 2016, and then also at the University of Canterbury and Christchurch in 2019. I now work as the External Examiner for the University of Coventry. In 2018 I became both a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Lecturer within the School of Health Sciences. I now work as an Associate Professor of Nursing within the School and serve as the Chair to the Royal College of Nursing Gastrointestinal Forum.

I teach across a range of topics and to multi professional groups within health care, at both UG and PG levels. My teaching interests include:

hepatitis C and liver disease

lived experiences

transition and chronic illness

qualitative research methodologies

gastroenterology nursing

critical care nursing

advanced life support topics

acute illness recognition and treatment

assessment and feedback issues within education