Nursing and Midwifery staff

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. ...

Dr Debra Evans

Senior Lecturer

Dr Debra Evans has been a university lecturer in the Faculty of Health Education and Life Sciences for 28 years. She trained as a Registered Nurse (RGN), has a quantitative scientific background from studying a PhD and Degree in Physiology, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy [SFHEA]). Whilst working...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Professor Kerry Gaskin

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...

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....

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...