Dr Mohammed Al-Sheikh Hassan PhD, MSc, BSc, PGCert, FHEA

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email: m.al-sheikhhassan@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Health Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Mohammed Al-Sheikh Hassan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Birmingham. He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes as well as the Clinical Health Research MRes, and he supervises MSc, MRes, and doctoral students.

His research focuses on workforce issues, trauma, and critical care, with additional interests in large-scale health programmes.

A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Dr Al-Sheikh Hassan serves on the editorial boards of international journals in nursing and health research. He is registered as a nurse in the UK, Canada, and Jordan, and his academic and clinical career spans critical care, public health, and clinical research delivery across several countries, including the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). At Birmingham, his work centres on preparing the next generation of nurses and health professionals while contributing to the University’s teaching, research, and enterprise priorities.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
PGCert, Higher Education
PhD, Nursing and Health Services Research
PGCert, Advanced Quantitative Methods in Epidemiology
MSc, Public Health
BSc, Nursing

Biography

Dr Mohammed Al-Sheikh Hassan teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes, contributes to the Clinical Health Research MRes, and delivers sessions on quantitative health research methods. He supervises MSc dissertations and doctoral theses, supporting students in developing as independent researchers.

With qualifications in nursing and public health, and advanced training in epidemiology from Harvard Medical School, Dr Al-Sheikh Hassan has a broad skill set in health research. His expertise spans qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, with strengths in phenomenology, survey design, and applied epidemiology. He is committed to research literacy and embeds methodological rigour across his teaching, supervision, and wider scholarship.

His career includes roles in higher education, clinical research delivery, and public health leadership. He has managed NHS trauma and orthopaedics research portfolios, directed national health transformation projects in the Middle East, and designed and implemented large-scale public health surveillance systems. These experiences have given him a strong foundation in both the generation and application of research evidence in clinical and policy settings.

Dr Al-Sheikh Hassan has presented his work internationally, including at conferences in the UK and Europe, and has published on nursing, public health, and research methodology. His outputs include studies on trauma care, workforce issues, and COVID-19, as well as widely read discussion papers on phenomenological methods.

In addition to his research and teaching, he contributes actively to academic service. He serves on the editorial boards of international journals in nursing and qualitative methods, reviews for leading health research journals, and produces online resources designed to improve research skills and confidence among students and early career professionals.

Dr Al-Sheikh Hassan combines teaching, supervision, and international research engagement to strengthen the University of Birmingham’s contribution to nursing education and applied health research.

Teaching

Dr Al-Sheikh Hassan teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including:

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Al-Sheikh Hassan welcomes enquiries from prospective postgraduate researchers interested in the following areas (see FindAPhD for opportunities):

MSc and MRes supervision in nursing, public health, clinical research, and secondary research evidence
PhD supervision in workforce development, trauma and critical care, and applied health research

Research

Research Interests

Trauma and critical care systems dynamics
Health workforce development and policy
Innovative applications of research methods

Current Projects

Descriptive or Interpretive? A Reflexive Framework for Methodological Choice and Bracketing in Phenomenology
Clinical Transition Experiences of Foreign-Trained Nurses into Major Trauma Care

Other activities

Editorial board membership and peer review for international journals
Public engagement through research literacy (YouTube channel)

Publications

Journal Articles

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2023). The use of Husserl's phenomenology in nursing research: A discussion paper. Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2023). Emotional labour in nursing: The fine line between support and stress. Inspire Journal, 1(1), 12–14.

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2023). Commentary on Joseph et al. (2022) Transition experiences of Indian nurses into Australian mental health system. Journal of Transcultural Nursing.

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M., De Vries, K., & Rutty, J. (2022). Emergency trauma care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A phenomenological study of nurses' experiences. International Emergency Nursing.

Alqahtani, A., Aldahish, A., Krishnaraju, V., Alqarni, M., & Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2021). Public knowledge of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia. Patient Preference and Adherence

Abohamr, S. I., Aldossari, M. A., Azazy, A. S., Elsheikh, E., Hassan, M. A., et al. (2020). Vitamin D level and coronary artery disease severity in Saudi patients. World Heart Journal

Albugami, R. A., Smith, S., Hassan, M. A., & Almas, K. (2019). Trends in implant dentistry in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dental and Medical Problems

Shehabi, Y., Howe, B. D., Bellomo, R., Arabi, Y. M., Bailey, M., Hassan, M. A., et al. (2019). Early sedation with dexmedetomidine in critically ill patients. New England Journal of Medicine [M. Hassan – clinical investigator]

Conference presentations

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2024). Enhancing Accessibility and Engagement through Visualising Assignment Briefs in Higher Education. Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences Learning and Teaching Conference. Birmingham, United Kingdom

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M., De Vries, K., & Rutty, J. (2023). Transitioning to trauma care: A phenomenological study of non-trauma foreign-trained nurses. 4th Global Conference on Emergency Nursing and Trauma Care, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2022). The transition and integration journey of foreign-trained nurses into a challenging trauma care environment. DMU Institute of Health, Health Policy and Social Care Research’s Seminar Series, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Al-Sheikh Hassan, M. (2021). The power of exposure: The transition journey of foreign-trained nurses at a major trauma hub. The East Midlands Doctoral Network (EMDoc) Conference, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

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