Professor Cara Bailey PhD, RN, MN, PGCert(LTHE)

• PhD (University of Nottingham)
• MN (University of Nottingham)
• RGN (University of Nottingham)
• PGCert(LTHE) (University of Birmingham)

Cara entered the nursing profession in 1999 and has a background in emergency care. She qualified with a Master’s Degree in Nursing in 2003 from The University of Nottingham, England and moved to Southampton to work in the Emergency Department. She returned to The University of Nottingham in 2005 and was awarded a PhD in 2009. The focus of her Doctorate was end of life care in the Emergency Department. She has since focused her post-doctoral work investigating end of life care with emergency settings in addition to other areas of end of life research.  

Cara contributes to the development, delivery and evaluation of education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has developed a new MSc Advanced Clinical Practice and developed standalone CPD module aimed at nurses across a range of clinical settings.

Cara maintains her clinical practice working within the hospice and also maintains her clinical links with Emergency Department at QEUHBT.   

Cara leads a number of postgraduate modules and contributes to teaching in research, leadership, end of life and palliative care, self awareness and resilience coaching and clinical skills, predominately on the following programmes:  

• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
• MRes Clinical Health Research 

Cara designs and delivers a postgraduate research events programme to PhD students in the School of Nursing and Midwifery including monthly seminars, masterclasses and journal clubs.

Cara has experience in supervising at postgraduate level at both Master’s and PhD level and has supported students conducting research projects through to successful completion. She is interested in supervising projects related to:

• End of life care
• Nurse-patient relationships
• End of life care education
• Measuring quality of supportive care
• Models of Social care and end of life care

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Cara on the contact details above or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Cara’s research focuses on the care of people at the end of their lives beyond cancer in palliative and end of life studies and for those who work closely with the dying, the bereaved and the critically ill. She currently work across four research areas:

• end of life care in the Emergency Department
• the quality of end of life care in the community and hospital settings
• educational support for nurses caring for the dying and managing emotional labour
• the economies of end of life care and measuring quality of end of life care

Spanning these topic areas is a further methodological interest of qualitative research, in particular the ethical and practical challenges of including patients near the end of life in qualitative research.

• Reviewer for Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Reviewer for Journal of Emergency Nursing 
• Works clinically as a nurse and registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (July 2005 - Present)
• Member/Researcher of End of life research group. The University of Birmingham (August 2009 - present).  
• Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS) September 2009 - Present)
• Peer Reviewer for Journal of Advanced Nursing (August 2011-Present)  
• Steering Committee Member: Making sense of death and dying. Interdisplinary.net (November 2011-Present)
• Breathe Easy User Involvement Group Facilitator (April 2012 - Present)
• Care Collaborative (Previously MaCPacc Collaborative) (November 2012 - Present) 
• EconEndLife Advisory Group member (April 2013 - Present)
• Higher Education Academy Fellow (August 2013)  
• The International Health Economics Association (IHEA) member (March 2014)