Research staff

Ben Appleby

Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator

Ben is a NMC Registered Nurse Tutor and Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University.  He qualified from City University London and St Bartholomew’s School of Nursing and Midwifery in September 1998, completing a 4-year BSc (Hons) in Nursing and Human Science, and clinically, went on to practice in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic...

Dr Elizabeth Bailey

Associate Professor and Director of the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre

Elizabeth Bailey joined BCU in February 2021 as Associate Professor and Director of the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Births Centre. Liz became a registered Midwife in 2004 and worked clinically before developing an interest in research. Liz worked in clinical research roles before completing her Doctorate and then working as a...

Dr Karolina Biernat

Research Assistant

The aim of Karolina's PhD research is to describe and analyse the nutritional outcomes of English holiday food programmes for children. This research also aims to explore the differences in food-related practices of these programmes and to present the perceptions of relevant stakeholders.

Professor Joanne Brooke

Director of C-SCHaRR

Professor Joanne Brooke is an Adult Nurse and Chartered Health Psychologist. Joanne has a worked across clinical specialities as a nurse including surgery, orthopaedics, emergency care, neurology and stroke in both the NHS and private healthcare settings. The accumulation of clinical posts included that of Nurse Consultant in...

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...

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...

Emeritus Professor Elaine Denny

Professor of Health Sociology

Elaine Denny has a background in hospital and community nursing and taught health sociology to students on health related courses for 20 years. Her research interests focus around women as recipients and providers of health care, and she has published work on women’s experience of IVF, the experience of endometriosis, and on...

Professor Judith Dyson

Professor in Implementation Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Care, Health and Related Research (C-SCHaRR)

Judith Dyson joined Birmingham City University in October 2020 as a Reader in Healthcare Research and Implementation Science. She is a registered general and mental health nurse and a chartered psychologist and has worked in many clinical and management roles in the NHS.   Her area of research interest and expertise is...

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...