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Staff profiles

Kathy Clarke
Lecturer – Adult Acute and Critical Care Nursing
I qualified as a registered nurse in 1990 and worked in a variety of specialties including thoracic surgery, cardiology, hepatology and critical care. Over last 10 years I have worked within a critical care outreach team with a remit for professional development at ward and trust level.

Allison Evans
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
I qualified as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) in 1988 having trained at the Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing in Birmingham. Since qualifying I have been employed in a variety of hospital settings working in medical and surgical wards and acute admissions departments. I also worked as a practice nurse in a primary care setting involved in a wide variety of clinical care and health promotion initiatives. I developed and managed a third sector organisation for young people needing sexual health...

Kim Harley
Senior Lecturer
I qualified as an RGN in 1979 having trained at Worcester District School of Nursing. I completed my Orthopaedic training before my RGN at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham then moved to Worcester to start my general training. I have worked in a variety of clinical settings including general medicine, surgery then moving into adult critical care where I remained. I completed my ENB 100 Adult Intensive Care course at Whipps Cross Hospital, East London before returning to Worcester...

Lesley Killingworth
Senior Lecturer
My career pathway began with the post of staff nurse for 3 years before moving into the speciality of orthopaedic nursing. As a registered general nurse with a qualification in orthopaedic nursing I worked in clinical orthopaedics as a staff nurse and as a ward sister. Following on from my orthopaedic nursing experience I began working in nurse education and successfully achieved the Registered Nurse Teacher qualification. I have continued to work in nurse education in higher education in...

Jane Leaver
Senior lecturer/practitioner
I am duel-qualified as a paediatric and an adult nurse. I have worked in the field of burns and plastic surgery for over 20 years. I have also worked on paediatric burn units in Australia and Canada as well as several in the UK. I have been working at Birmingham City University for the past 10 years and have close clinical working links with Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Birmingham Hospital.

Robert Mapp
Senior Lecturer
I have worked as a senior lecturer at Birmingham City University for a year and half. My Senior Lecturer post followed a two-year secondment at the university in which I worked for CETL in both a full-time and a part-time capacity. Previously my nursing career consisted of two years in Trauma and Orthopedics and two years as an E grade nurse in A&E. I then spent time working as a clinical educator in a band 6 capacity at University Hospital Birmingham.

Claire Perkins
Senior Lecturer - Adult and Critical Care Nursing
After an initial first staff nurse post in A & E I have spent the majority of my NHS based career working in HDUs and ITUs across the West Midlands. My substantive posts were at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust and the Heart Of England NHS Trust where I rotated around several units and sites. Through my intensive care course (ENB 1000) in 1999 I also had placements on specialist critical care units such as the PICU at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. During 1997-2003 in...

Alison Smith
Senior Lecturer in Adult & Critical Care Nursing
After qualifying as a general nurse, I specialised as an adult intensive care nurse spending 14 years working predominantly within cardiothoracics but also gaining experience on a general and a liver intensive care unit. I predominantly teach high dependency and acute care to pre-registration adult nursing programmes. I am also involved in teaching on the BSc Dimensions in Health Care, on several post-registration modules. In order to maintain my clinical skills and knowledge I...

Richard Stock
Senior Lecturer
I trained and qualified as a registered general nurse from Hereford School of Nursing in 1989 and worked a staff nurse, charge nurse and orthopaedic nurse practitioner within orthopaedic and trauma nursing at Hereford Gloucester and Worcester Hospitals until 2005. In 2005 I accepted a position of practice facilitator within Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust. This involved the development and training IV therapy as well as venpuncture and cannulation skills for registered nurses. I was...