Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Cheryl Chessum
Visiting Lecturer/Practitioner
Cheryl started her nursing career with registration as a learning disability nurse, something that has proved invaluable to helping her work with people with a dual diagnosis – mental health and learning difficulties or with families where a member has a learning difficulty. She then went on to complete Registered Mental...
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Marie Clancy
Senior Lecturer and Admissions Tutor for FdSc Health and Social Care
Marie is a children’s nurse by background and studied in Birmingham with much of her initial nurse roles at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH). Subsequently she has worked internationally in Australia, Trinidad, Malawi, Afghanistan and New Zealand. Marie's work to date both clinically and academically has focused on...
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Dr Nicola Clarke
Senior Lecturer / Professional Navigator / Academic Advisor / SEDA Accredited Doctoral Supervisor
Nicola is a registered mental health nurse completing her degree with honours in Mental Health Nursing at Oxford Brookes University. She has an MSc in General Psychiatry which she completed at Keele Postgraduate Medical School. In 2013 Nicola was awarded her Educational Doctorate and she has since become a Senior fellow of the...
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Adele Clifford
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Adele qualified as a Paediatric Nurse in 2011 and has worked in various paediatric settings including emergency care, high dependency and neonatal intensive care, gaining a wide range of clinical and leadership skills. She has worked as a resuscitation and simulation trainer, teaching nationally accredited resuscitation courses...
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Laura Clifford
Lecturer in Midwifery/Clinical Support
Laura worked as a clinical midwife in a high risk unit after she qualified. She has also worked for two years as a volunteer, teaching midwifery in a Nurse Training School in the North West of Uganda.
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Scott Colton
Senior Lecturer
Scott has a clinical background in emergency department nursing. He enjoys working across the different areas of emergency medicine but takes a keen interest in assessment, recognition and management of patients, especially initial assessment, care of the patient involved in trauma and patient flow streaming. He has been a...
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Dr Simon Cook
Senior Lecturer
Simon is a human geographer with specialisms in sport, exercise, physical cultures, mobilities, transport and everyday life. His research concerns everyday active practices, how they change, and what that tells us about society, spaces, cultures and bodies. This has included research into run-commuting, post-collision cycling...
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Helen Cope
Course Leader for MSc Transforming and Leading in Healthcare
Helen has spent 25 years as a consultant running her own business, helping organisations nationally and internationally improve their practice and innovate. She has an HR and Organisational Development background and is a keen advocate of change. Focused on effective, engaging and innovative teaching, Helen is the acting...
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Professor Fiona Cowdell
Professor of Nursing and Knowledge Mobilisation
Fiona Cowdell joined Birmingham City University in 2016 as a Professor of Nursing and Knowledge Mobilisation. She is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University with a doctorate from Bournemouth University. As a registered nurse she worked for many years in the National Health Service at senior levels both operational and...
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Dr Emma Craddock
Senior Lecturer in Health Research
Emma completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Nottingham in 2017 (thesis titled: ‘Emotion and Gender in Local Anti-Austerity Activist Cultures’). Her research utilised a feminist methodology and a combination of qualitative research methods to produce an in-depth exploration of anti-austerity activist culture. It...