Child Nursing staff

Helen Davis-Miles

Course Lead for MSci Nursing and Senior Lecturer

Helen is part of the Future Nurse Programme team as MSci Nursing course which runs alongside the BSc Nursing and Registered Nurse Degree Apprentice courses. Helen qualified as a nurse from the University of Birmingham in 2011 with a 1:1 and began her career at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the Haematology/Oncology unit. ...

Joanna Day

Lecturer in Children and Young People's Nursing

Jo initially completed a Psychology degree before going on to study Diploma of Higher Education in Children’s Nursing at Kings College London, graduating in 2011. Her first staff nurse post was at The Royal Brompton Hospital in London, working in cardiothoracic nursing and gaining extensive knowledge of congenital cardiac...

Anne-Marie England

Senior Lecturer

Anne-Marie has completed a dual qualification as a Register Children’s Nurse and Registered Adult Nurse. She had a varied career in adult and child nursing in acute, intensive care and high dependency settings in London and Southampton and enjoyed six months working as an Expedition Nurse for Operation Raleigh in Kenya. ...

Susie Guthrie

Senior Lecturer Placement Development and Support (Child Nursing)

Susie is dual qualified as both an adult and child nurse. She has extensive experience within the field of Children’s intensive care nursing and joined the university in 2003 from a London university where she delivered specialist Children’s intensive care nursing modules. Susie is the senior lecturer for placement...

Halima Khan

Assistant Lecturer in Child Health

Halima qualified as a Children’s Nurse in 2011 at The University of Northampton, her nursing career has been varied and she had the opportunity to work in the following areas, Paediatric Assessment Unit, General Paediatric ward, A&E, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Community Nursing. Whilst working in Community nursing she...

Nikki Kidd

Senior Lecturer in Child Health

Nikki is the Field lead for Child on the current Future BSc/MSci Programme. She is privileged to be a member of The Future Nurse Programme Team and as Deputy Course Lead for Child enjoys supporting and guiding the Child Field Students on their progression throughout the course. Her clinical background is as a paediatric...

Clare Knowles

Senior Lecturer

I graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physiology 1988. I then qualified as a RGN in 1994 and pursued a career in paediatric nursing, becoming an RN Child in 1996. I continued to work within the cardiac field of paediatric nursing for several years. For a couple of years I worked as a clinical teacher across several specialties...

Stephanie Paget

Interim Quality Enhancement Lead

Stephanie is Interim Quality Enhancement Lead and an Associate Professor. She was previously the course leader for two of our provisions within the School of Nursing and Midwifery, MSc Nursing and MSci Nursing. Stephanie graduated from Birmingham City University with a BSc (hons) degree in Children’s Nursing in 2012. Post...

Ilana Pressick

Associate Professor of Nursing & Midwifery

Ilana Pressick has worked in different intensive care settings since qualifying in 2009 and completed numerous postgraduate nursing qualifications. She joined the university in 2016 and teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in nursing. Currently she is involved in a research project exploring the effects of...

Nabisah Qazim

Assistant Lecturer in Child Health

Nabisah Qazim is Assistant Lecturer at Birmingham City University. She recently joined the child field team at the start of January 2022, so she is very new to the role. She qualified as a Children’s Nurse from Birmingham City University in 2014. Her clinical background is in neurosurgery and community children’s nursing, more...