Staff directory
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Novia Samuels
Midwifery Lecturer
Novia has experience in all areas of midwifery and has a specialist interest in enhance midwifery care. She has worked in intrapartum care for over 13 years. She has been a Core High Dependency Unit midwife in one of the UKs large maternity units for over 11 years on a delivery suite and caring for women with extremely...
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Heather Scripps
Senior Lecturer, and Course Lead for Return to Practice (Nursing)
Having qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1996 Heather spent two years in Newport and then Bristol working in Orthopaedics and then Cardiac Surgery (her favourite clinical job). In 1998, Heather joined the Army and became part of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps as a Nursing Officer and had a fantastic 19 year...
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Kathryn Sethi
Senior Lecturer in Children's Health
Kat qualified as a nurse in Australia 1997 and worked for 20 years in the NHS across adult and child fields in acute, intensive care and high dependency settings. With a special interest in neurosurgical nursing, Kat worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist for neurosurgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and later at Birmingham...
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Nina Shamaris
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Nina is currently a Senior Lecturer in Adult nursing and her main module she leads on Leadership and Decision-Making/Research Based Leadership and Decision-Making Adult Nursing within the third/fourth year. She is passionate about teaching students to transfer skills from theory into practice and making that difference within...
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Jeena Shiju
Lecturer
Jeena Shiju Graduated in 1999 and has worked in surgical, Trauma and Orthopaedic areas. She has also worked in clinical education supporting and teaching students and staff (ranging from band 2 to senior staff and junior doctors) in both class and clinical practice. Jeena enjoys encouraging and supporting students in...
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Sue Shortland
Associate Professor – Primary Care
Sue qualified as a registered nurse in 1984 and a registered midwife in 1986. Sue worked for over 20 years in general practice as a general practice nurse and then as an advanced nurse practitioner and non-medical prescriber. Sue joined Birmingham City University in 2008 as a Senior Lecturer on the MSc Advanced Practice Course...
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Alison Simons
Senior Lecturer of Nursing & Midwifery
Alison was a cancer nurse for 18 years looking after patients with a variety of cancer and receiving a variety of treatments. She was the junior sister of a mixed oncology ward within a large teaching hospital. Alison then went on to become a professional development sister responsible for the educational needs of 200...
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Professor Theresa Smyth
Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care
Theresa is Nurse Consultant in Diabetes at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University. She co-leads and teaches on post-registration, BSc and MSc, courses on diabetes. She has held positions representing diabetes nursing on...
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Dion Smyth
Senior Lecturer (Cancer and Palliative Care)
Dion Smyth is a senior lecturer in cancer and palliative care, and teaches on both the undergraduate pre and post-registration curriculum and postgraduate courses. In the pre-registration BSc Nursing programme, Dion coordinates the module Nursing Practice 2, which addresses cancer, immunology, auto-immune conditions such as...
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Bernie St Aubyn
Senior Lecturer (Adult Nursing)
Bernie St Aubyn has been a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Birmingham City University over the last 14 years and has taught at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She currently works on the BSc Nursing programme. Prior to working at the University she worked as a registered Midwife and registered Health Visitor in...