Our staff

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 ...

Louise is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and is the Lead for Postgraduate Taught and CPD in the School. 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 ...

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 ...

Richard Breakwell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. 

Richard has been a registered nurse for over 20 years and during this time he has maintained a keen interest in research and teaching related to the care of patients in the acute, hospital setting.

Richard’s research focus is on student learning in both ...

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 ...

Nikolaos is a lecturer in Nursing and leads the Clinical Health Research MRes Programme. Nikolaos is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa.

Nikolaos is an experienced lecturer and researcher. He has published research papers in scientific journals in the fields of End-of-Life care, nursing education and Delphi Technique. He has ...

Dr Joanna Garstang is a Consultant Community Paediatrician and Honorary Research Fellow. 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 improving ...

Alison is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Alison teaches across the pre-registration nursing programme with a focus on older adult mental health care, advocacy and skills and simulation. 

Richard is an Adult Field Registered Nurse with broad experience in digestive diseases, oncology and palliative care, and renal disorders, with significant experience in mentoring and supporting student nurses in clinical practice. This led to educational roles across the sector within further education and higher education with an interest in academic, and the personal and professional ...

Ping Guo is Associate Professor in Nursing and Lead for Advanced Practice Research Project/Dissertation module and Mixed Methods Research Design module at School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has successfully completed a PGCert in Learning and Teaching in HE. She is leading the School’s Public Engagement in Nursing (PEN) group. Ping is ...