Nursing and Midwifery staff directory
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Úna Kerin
Associate Professor
Úna is an Associate Professor in Nursing and Midwifery at Birmingham City University. Úna trained as a general nurse at the National University of Ireland Galway and later undertook specialist postgraduate courses in emergency nursing and clinical education. Úna has extensive experience designing and delivering educational...
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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...
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Imran Khan
Senior Lecturer
Imran has worked in a variety of community and in-patient facilities and since entering higher education and he has tried to keep clinical skills up-to-date by engaging in practice to complement my teaching. He has an interest in learning support mechanisms for pre-registration nurses and has also looked at users’ attitudes...
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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...
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Sheryl King
Lecturer in Learning Disability Nursing
Sheryl has worked as a Registered LD Nurse for the past 33 years, having retired in October 2020 to start a new career at BCU. Post qualifying, she worked in a number of inpatient and residential settings. However, her career has predominantly been spent supporting adults and children with Learning Disabilities in the community...
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Shirley Kirnon
Senior Lecturer, Infection Prevention and Control
Shirley's professional background is in nursing and she specialises in teaching Infection Prevention and Control, which is a specialism within the health protection strand of Public Health. She is involved in teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, across the various healthcare disciplines.
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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...
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Sophia Kuyateh
Lecturer in Child Health
Sophia Elizabeth Kuyateh is a Child Health Lecturer at Birmingham City University (BCU). She has been in post since March 2015, and thoroughly enjoys her role here at the University. Sophia maintains close links with practice and still works clinically. This enhances her credibility with the students as well as physically...
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Katherine Lemon
Senior Lecturer in Advanced Practice and Non-Medical Prescribing
Katherine qualified as a Children’s nurse in 2003 and spent the next 5 years rotating between several specialties including general paediatrics, planned surgery, adolescent and neonatal care and emergency medicine. She then went on to train as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. Having gained a...
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Cathy Liddle
Senior Lecturer (Skills and Simulation)
In 2000 Cathy joined Birmingham City University when it was known as University of Central England (UCE) following a career working at local Trusts. Cathy qualified at Good Hope Hospital and worked on a general medical ward before moving to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital or University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) as it is known now....