Lisa Abbott

Associate Head of School

Email:: lisa.abbott@bcu.ac.uk

As Associate Head of School, Lisa is a proud advocate of Nursing and Midwifery at BCU. Throughout her 15 years working here, Lisa has enjoyed a variety of roles including Head of Department for Children’s and Young People’s Health, Deputy Programme Leader for Children’s Nursing, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer Practitioner. Lisa works collaboratively to both create and achieve a clear vision for the School, at strategic and operational level, striving for excellence. Lisa is known for an optimistic and fair approach to leadership, aiming to inspire trust within good working relationships.

Lisa is a Children’s Nurse, with a passion for intensive care nursing, employability, transition to registration, retention, student experience, leadership and social media.

Lisa is currently a PhD student with research centred around ‘A qualitative exploration of student children’s nurses experiences as they transition into qualified practice in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit over a 12 month period.’ During 2020/1 Lisa was awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation ‘Emerging Leader’ Scholarship.

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Yardley, L. Whitehouse, K, and Abbott, L. (2014) Enhancing Holistic Aspects of Employability in Health and Social Care - Case Story Approach to Toolkit Resources. Higher Education Academy.

Harris, J., Abbott, L. & Jukes, M. (2012) Improving Care for Children with Down Syndrome. Learning Disability Practice. Vol. 15. No. 6.

Abbott, L. (2011) Rotation Placements help students’ understanding of intensive care. Nursing Children and Young People. Vol.23. No. 6. Pp.20-23.

Abbott, L. & Holmes, C. (2011) A virtual paediatric intensive care. Preparation for reality? – Presented at Higher Education Academy eLearning in Health Conference 2011.

Chapter entitled ‘The Uniqueness of nursing’ for a book entitled ‘Choosing Nursing - from application to offer and beyond’ edited by Cathy Poole – due to be published 2014

Scholarly Activity

2018 The impact of Twitter on the Student Nursing journey at BCU. European First Year Experience Conference - Holland.

2018 The impact of memorable events on the student nurse journey at BCU. European First Year Experience Conference - Holland.

2017 Exploring the impact of twitter upon the student nurse journey – developing belonging and engagement. SoMe Conference – Sheffield Hallam.

2017 The impact of memorable events on the student nurse journey. RCN Education Conference. Cardiff.

2016 Increasing Connectivity and Building Social Capital. @BCUNursingteam SoMe Conference – Sheffield Hallam.

2016 Nearly Qualified Event. Higher Education Academy. Glasgow.

2016 Innovating to enhance employability in nursing. Association of Graduate Careers Advisors. Chester.

2016 Nearly Qualified Day. RAISE conference. Nottingham.

2011 Student Academic Partner Scheme fund to evaluate how students use the Virtual Paediatric Intensive Care Unit to prepare for student placement, this evaluation is undertaken through the use of the VOXUR portable film studio.

2011 eLearning for Health. Higher Education Academy Conference.

2012 Student Academic Partnership to create a promotional video for child Health Nursing, housed within the child department webpage.

2012-15 ‘Enhancing Student Employability’ Project

2013 Presented Enhancing Student Employability project at Faculty Research Conference

2013 Co-author of HEA New to Teaching Tool Kit, subject area ‘Employability’

2014 Host and Organiser of HEA Seminar ‘Enhancing Holistic Healthcare Employability’

2014 Neonatal Symposium, London, Virtual Paediatric Intensive Care

Lisa Abbott

Associate Head of School

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