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Professor Cara Bailey

Professor Cara Bailey

Professor of End of Life Care
Postgraduate Research Lead

Cara Bailey is Professor of End of Life Care and Postgraduate Research Lead for the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.

Cara is a qualified nurse with most of her clinical experience being in the Emergency Department. Her research expertise is in end of life care, particularly on palliative care crisis, quality of end of life care and outcome ...

Mrs Louise Beesley

Mrs Louise Beesley

Associate Professor
School Head of Education
College Academic Lead Degree Apprenticeships

Louise is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and is the School Head of Education. She teaches across a variety of modules within the Institute of Clinical Sciences postgraduate portfolio and also supports the pre-registration BNurs and MNurs programmes within the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Louise is a registered adult nurse, with experience in both secondary and ...

Professor Caroline Bradbury-Jones

Professor Caroline Bradbury-Jones

Professor of Gender Based Violence and Health

Caroline is a registered nurse, midwife and health visitor. Since joining academia she has developed research expertise in the field of domestic violence and abuse.  Specifically, within the scope of addressing inequalities, focused on issues of family violence and child abuse and neglect. Caroline has led or been actively involved in securing funding for several research projects relevant ...

Dr Richard Breakwell

Dr Richard Breakwell

Associate Professor

Richard Breakwell is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. 

Mark Che Bruce

Assistant Professor

Che is an Assistant Professor based at the University of Birmingham Dubai campus and is involved in the development and delivery of the MSc in Advanced Practice in Healthcare.

 

Ms Emily Clarke

Ms Emily Clarke

Teaching Fellow

Emily is a clinical skills and simulation teaching fellow, with a particular focus on adult nursing. She continues to work within the ‘Healthcare for Older People’ acute medical wards alongside her current role as a teaching fellow.

Ms Karen Day

Ms Karen Day

Lecturer

Karen is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing, teaching on the Bachelor of Nursing and Master of Nursing programmes.  She has been qualified as a nurse for over 28 years with a wide range of clinical experience including encompassing a broad range of specialities in medicine, renal care and palliative care. She has many years experience teaching in Higher Education, both in Health care and Education ...

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou

Associate Professor

Nikolaos is an Associate Professor in Nursing. He  also holds an honorary appointment as Adjunct Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa.

Nikolaos is an experienced academic and researcher. He holds a PGCert in Learning and Teaching in HE. His research interests lie in palliative and end-of-life care, decision-making, and limitations of ...

Dr Joanna Garstang

Dr Joanna Garstang

Clinical Associate Professor of Child Protection

Dr Joanna Garstang is a Clinical Associate Professor and Consultant Community Paediatrician. Her specialist areas are in safeguarding children, Child Death Review and Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood. Joanna's PhD was an evaluation of multi-agency investigation of unexpected infant death from both the parents' and professionals' perspectives, more recently her research has focussed on ...