Staff directory
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Samuel Todd
Visiting Lecturer in Midwifery and Professional Midwifery Advocate
Sam completed his degree in Midwifery at Birmingham City University in 2012. He subsequently worked as a Band 5 Midwife during a 12 month preceptorship programme at Birmingham Women’s Hospital which included rotations to the Birth Centre, Delivery Suite, Antenatal Ward and Postnatal Ward. From December 2013 Sam worked as a...
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Samantha Toland
Senior Lecturer in Haematology
Sam has been a cancer / haemato-oncology nurse for 18 years, having worked initially in Haemato-oncology and stem cell transplant, she then went on to become a Chemotherapy nurse trainer, responsible for the chemotherapy training and education of all nursing staff in a large teaching hospital trust. She then took on a...
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Emma Tonks
Lecturer
Emma qualified as a Paediatric Nurse from Birmingham City University’s Dip HE course in 2011, she then began her career at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on the Liver and small bowel unit. In 2012 she moved to Heartlands Hospital on the paediatric inpatient ward. During her 9 years at UHB she progressed to a Sister’s role...
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Nathalie Turville
Senior Lecturer (Children & Young People) / Deputy Director Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre
Nathalie Turville is Deputy Director of the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre. This role includes research involving multiple birth families, development of education resources for health and social care professionals and working with 3 rd sector organisations to raise the profile of the needs of multiple birth families....
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Dr Martin Vreugdenhil
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology
Martin received a Masters in Biomedical Science from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Because he had developed a strong bias for epilepsy research, he took a Post Doc research post at the University of Amsterdam looking into cellular effects of antiepileptic drugs. ...
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Chantelle Waite
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Chantelle graduated as an Adult nurse from the University of Birmingham in 2005. Chantelle’s first nursing role was in acute renal dialysis at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This role gave her many skills such as HD, HDF, PD, APD dialysis, plasma exchange and ABOi treatment. She then went on renal rotation and practiced in...
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Louise Walden
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Louise attended Coventry University in 2002 and was awarded a BSc in Psychology. However, nursing was her main passion, so Louise decided to follow this path and completed the Graduate Diploma in Adult Nursing from Birmingham City University. Louise worked within Cardiology for a before focusing her career within...
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Dr Andrew Walsh
Senior Lecturer
Andrew qualified as a mental health nurse in 1982. Before coming to BCU he worked in a range of mental health care settings such as acute mental health care and the mental health of older people. He was a ward manager, a Community Psychiatric Nurse and he also worked in primary care within South Birmingham. Andrew studied...
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Alison Warren
Senior Lecturer in Child Nursing
Alison joined the Department of Children and Young People’s health in July 2019 following a career in nursing spanning 37 years. She has both Child and Adult nursing qualifications. Prior to joining BCU she was the Clinical Matron for Children and Young People’s Services at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust...
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April Watts
Assistant Lecturer
April is an assistant lecturer in the posture moving and handling. Prior to this she spent many years within the health care sector in different areas and specialties. April is a registered nursing associate graduate from BCU and obtained her NMC pin within a hyper acute stroke unit. Following on from this she obtained a post...