Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Dr Alison Edwards
Visiting Lecturer - Midwifery
Alison first qualified as a general nurse in 1988 and following a few years as a nurse in gynaecology and care of the elderly, a move into Midwifery was made. The main areas Alison worked in included fetal medicine, day assessment, coordination of delivery suite and also managing a postnatal and antenatal ward. This lead into...
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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. ...
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Dr Debra Evans
Senior Lecturer
Debra has taught at BCU for over 24 years. The principal subjects she teaches are topics related to research and evidence-based practice mainly at Master’s and degree level. Debra is very interested in equipping health students with research skills to evaluate the effectiveness of health care interventions – basically getting...
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Kara Fereday
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Kara is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and is a co module lead for the Delivering high quality, safe nursing care within adult nursing module within the Adult Nursing programme. Kara is also the module lead for the Introduction to Palliative and End of Life Care module which is part of the Post Qualifying Professional...
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Beth Flint
Senior Lecturer Degree Nurse Apprenticeship team
Beth qualified as a registered nurse (adult) in 2005 and has worked in various areas of nursing including trauma and orthopaedics, surgical assessment and gynaecology. She has also worked as a faculty educator and Medical Devices Educator, teaching a wide range of healthcare workers ranging from band 2 staff to senior...
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Joanne Forman
Senior Lecturer
Joanne Forman is an accomplished nursing professional with over two decades of experience in paediatric nursing, burns and plastics, clinical education, and higher education. As a Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for the FdSc Nursing Associate programme, Joanne plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of nursing by delivering...
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Dr Jonathan Gadsby
Senior Lecturer
Jonathan Gadsby qualified as a mental health nurse in 2001. He has worked in a variety of in-patient and community settings. He has a Masters in Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health, post-graduate certificates in Research and in Education, and a PhD in the politics of mental health and voice-hearing. He is a founder member of...
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Professor Kerry Gaskin
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Kerry joined BCU in January 2024 as the first Professor of Congenital Cardiac Nursing in the UK. Kerry studied at North Birmingham College of Nurse Education, becoming a Registered General Nurse in 1992. She is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University with a BA (Hons) in Paediatric Nursing (1996); an MSc in Advanced Practice...
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Samuel Geary
Foundation Year Lecturer
I joined the ADD (Academic Development Department) and Birmingham City University in 2018 as a Foundation Year Lecturer. Since then he has been involved in the design and delivery of the Foundation Year programme for the faculty. The Foundation Year allows students to progress onto a number of HELS undergraduate courses....
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Carole Gelder
Senior Lecturer
Carole Gelder has a dual role as a Senior Lecturer in CYP diabetes at BCU and a CYP diabetes nurse specialist/ clinical educator role in Leeds. Carole’s nursing career started in London training as a General nurse then specialising in CYP at Great Ormond Street Hospital before returning home to Yorkshire. Carole...