Professor Maxine Lintern
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences
School of Health Sciences
- Email:
- maxine.lintern@bcu.ac.uk
As part of the senior management for the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences (HELS), Maxine has responsibility for setting the vision and deciding the direction of travel of the Faculty, contributing to all major strategic decisions and ensuring the smooth running and implementation of operational policy.
She is responsible for: the strategic development and operational implementation of research & enterprise links to learning and teaching including advances in curriculum design, programme structure, and timetabling, and the student experience.
She oversees staff development – CPD Framework, mentoring and coaching, promotions, formal development, peer observations, training programs, and higher degrees and liaises with estates to continually improve the campus environment.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Medical Biochemistry
- PhD Medicine (Physiology)
- PGCert L&T in HE
- Member of the Institute of Leadership
- Professor of Biomedical Science
- Principle Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Memberships
- Birmingham Children’s Hospital Research and Development Committee Member
- Birmingham Children’s Hospital Research Foundation Member
- Physiological Society member
- Higher Education Academy -Reviewer for National Teaching Fellowships and Health Sciences Teaching Development Grants
- Reviewer for the Biochemical Journal, IJED and others
- Higher Education Innovation Cluster (HEIC) – Steering Group and Deputy Board Member
- WM Allied Health Science Network – Stakeholder Member
- STEM Ambassador
Research
Professor Lintern’s research interests range from biomedical science, bioengineering and cognitive psychology, use of science in the law and leadership, patient care and clinical outcomes, to digital educational projects with impact on the student experience here and across the world. She collaborates with teams across different subject disciplines, Universities (Cambridge, UCL, Staffordshire, Pace (US)), NHS trusts, industry and manages international projects as well as being an experienced PhD examiner and viva chair.
Postgraduate Supervision
- An EEG and computational modelling investigation into cultural differences in visual perceptual learning--Ethan Myers
- Exploring the Biological Foundations of Leadership Perceptions – Sabreen Jan – collaboration between Business School and Life Sciences
- Cultural and contextual differences in picture perception: building an ecological model of human visual perception. Panos Sampanis - Collaboration between Psychology departments at BCU and UCL
- Design and development of an Interactive Bio-feedback Stick Technology to enable patient recovery and improve their quality of life. Salman Abdullah – Collaboration between engineering, biomedical science and computer science. Submitted Mar 2022
- Learning from error: An exploration of critical care nurses experiences and support needs following a medical error even. David Waters - Clinical practice project in collaboration with a number of NHS trusts.
- Investigating oscillatory behaviour in Alzheimer’s disease to establish biomarkers: an EEG and computational study. Nirav Porwal – Collaboration between Psychology departments at BCU and University of Birmingham
- From East to West: Cultural differences in perceptual learning. Stephanie Yoke Ping Chua - Collaboration between Psychology departments at BCU and Cambridge University- submitted Mar 2022
Juvenile Brain Science and US Judicial Decision-making. Rosemarie Tempowski, submitted May 2022
- An exploration of health care professionals (midwives) as the ‘second victim’ following an error in clinical practice. Natasha Carr- Clinical practice project in collaboration with Staffordshire University and NHS trusts.
- Impact of the Vertebrate posture system on back pain during pregnancy. Maggie Prain- Clinical practice project in collaboration with a number of NHS trusts.
- Understanding the contributing factors to heel pressure ulcers and their role in indicating end of life. - Alisen Dube, in collaboration with Staffordshire University and NHS Trusts.
- Learning as Becoming: Using Grounded Theory method to explore Military Nursing Students’ experience of Pre-Registration Nurse Education, in the absence of Military Nurse Lecturers. Major Lyndsay Blake. – EdD pedagogical project in collaboration with MoD Clinical Education. Awarded May 2022
- Investigation into automated student engagement monitoring to inform strategic interventions to improve student success. -Simon Handley. Awarded February 2022– EdD digital pedagogical project.
- Latin American Critical Social Pedagogies and the recovery discourse in mental health nursing. Ana Mejia-Mejia, Awarded Sept 2021.
- Evaluation of use of PSIAMS social prescribing data warehouse within a CCG. Jessica Runacres. Awarded April 2021.
- Does supplementation of Healthy Start Vitamins in Pregnancy Impact on the Risk of Developing Pre- Eclampsia in Women Booked at a Regional Maternity Unit? Alison Evans. – Collaboration with Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Awarded May 2020
- The social and cognitive barriers impeding information gain for STIs in men who have sex with men. - Naomi Pierce. Awarded August 2019
- Understanding hospital admissions for patients of the case management programme. Eloise Philips. - Clinical education project in collaboration with a number of NHS trusts. Awarded 2018
- Understanding of the Rehabilitation Needs of Pakistani Heart Failure Patients and their Care. Rifat Ysuf, Awarded 2017
- The Effect of Psychological Treatment upon Brain Activity Related to Pain Processing - Nick Hylands-White. Awarded 2017
- Biomechanical Analysis of Forefoot (Metatarsal) Injuries Caused by Brake Pedal Loading using Finite Element Modelling. Bisola Muntewende, Awarded 2016
- Improving the effectiveness of motor skills learning in moving and handling training for the health care environment – Stephen Wanless, Awarded 2016
- Holding children and young people for clinical procedures: moving towards an intellectualised, evidence-based practice. Andrea Page, Awarded 2014
Publications
A. Dube, V. Sidambe, A. Verdon, E. Phillips, S. Jones, M. Lintern, M. Radford. (2022), Risk factors associated with heel pressure ulcer development in adult population: A systematic literature review. Journal of Tissue Viability Feb; 31(1):84-103.
S. Chua, P. Rentzelas, P. Frangou, Z. Kourtzi, M. Lintern, E. Mavritsaki, (2021) Cultural Differences in Visual Perceptual Learning, International Journal of Psychology, Dec.
Tempowski, R, Lintern, M. Molloy, J and Cooper, S. L. (2021) A Model for Analysing and Grading the Quality of Scientific Authorities. Presented to State Legislative Committees. University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy 356. Vol 15 Iss 1 Neuroscience and the Law, Article 10.
Runacres, J. Jones, S. Philips E., Land, L. Lintern, M. (2020) A concept analysis to understand social prescribing. Perspectives in Public Health (under review)
Cleaver, E. McLinden, M. Lintern M (2019). The scholarship of teaching and learning as a foundation for strategic educational transformation. Chapter in ‘Evidence-Based Faculty Development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’, publisher IGI Global.
Porwal, N. Bowman, H. Lintern, M. Shapiro, K. Mavritsaki, E. (2019) A spiking neural network model of the N400 congruency effect. Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Barcelona.
Chua, S. Rentzelas, P. Kourtzi, Z. Lintern, M and Mavritsaki, E (2018) Cross-cultural differences in perceptual learning. Journal of Vision. ISSN 1534-7362
Lintern M., Educational Enquiry – disciplinary approaches and the BLSS Boost Project. (2018). International Federation of National Teaching Fellows World Summit, Halifax, Canada (Invited Speaker)
Cleaver, E. Lintern, M.C, McLinden, M. (2018) Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry, Sage Publishing. 2nd edition
Philips E., Jones, S., Runacres, J., Lintern, M., Radford, M. (2017) Understanding the distribution of A&E attendances and hospital admissions for the case managed population: a single case cross sectional study. Applied Nursing Research 33:24-29
Cleaver, E., Lintern, M., McLinden, M., Towards the ‘enquiring university’: using critical enquiry as a route to teaching excellence. (2017). International Federation of National Teaching Fellows World Summit, Birmingham, UK. (Invited Speaker)