Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Jonathan Potter
Lecturer in Academic Skills
Jonathan provides academic skills support for students at all levels within the Faculty of Health, Education, and Life Sciences. This includes in-course sessions, as well as extracurricular provisions such as workshops and one-to-one tutorials, and online resources. Previously, he has taught academic writing across all...
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Dr Jane Powell
Joint Programme Leader for the MSc Transforming and Leading in Health Care
Jane is joint programme leader for Transforming and Leading in Health Care. She is project lead for external projects within the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences, more recently for NIHR WoundTec Health Technology Cooperative. Jane is a member of Women Leading Education Research Interest Group. Jane joined...
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Maggie Prain
Senior Lecturer of Nursing & Midwifery
Maggie began full time lecturing in 2003 and has been the Programme Director for the BSc (Hons)/Graduate Diploma in Midwifery 20-month programme since 2006 -2013. She was since the Programme Director for the Examination of the Newborn programme. Her teaching experience has been predominately within midwifery education across...
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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...
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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...
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Miss Sarah Redfern
Associate Professor
A proud graduate of BCU and an experienced senior nurse whose speciality is children’s liver and small bowel disease. Education has always been a focus of Sarah’s career pathway and really took hold when she became the Teaching Sister for the busy high dependency ward. This naturally progressed into the role as lead for the...
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Francesca Renzicchi
Senior Lecturer
Francesca graduated in Nursing in 2012, from the Faculty of “Medicina, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata” and moved to the UK one year after, where she has been practising in different hospital settings, from medical wards to admission, to Critical Care and research. Francesca's areas of interest and expertise cover general...
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Stephanie Reynolds
Senior Teaching Fellow
Stephanie Reynolds is a Registered General Nurse in Adult Nursing. Nursing and Midwifery Council registration also includes that of District Nurse, Nurse Prescriber and Nurse Teacher. She has experience in post qualifying professional development and pre-registration placement support, and is a fellow of the Higher Education...
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Jayne Robbie
Course Lead and senior lecturer in diabetes and vascular disease
Jayne qualified as a podiatrist from Brighton Polytechnic in 1987 and has had a varied career in primary and secondary care working extensively as a diabetes specialist in multi-professional teams as well as having experience managing a large primary care podiatry unit. Jayne was one of the first intake of podiatrists to gain...
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Claire J Roberts
Head of the College of Nursing and Midwifery
Claire gained her B.Nurs (Hons)/RGN/HV in Manchester University (1995) and went to work at Birmingham Children's Hospital on P.I.C.U. She gained her RSCN and ENB 415 before she moved into a Health Visitor role. Since joining Birmingham City University in 2004, she has enjoyed a variety of roles including module leader;...