Dr Amelia Swift RGN, MSc, PhD, PGCHE, SFHEA

Dr Amelia Swift

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Reader in Health Professional Education
Head of Education (Nursing)

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Amelia is a Reader in Health Professional Education and the Head of Education for the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She teaches widely across the pre-registration programmes and also contributes to post-graduate teaching in her specialist area of pain. Amelia is a champion of technology enhancement and works at Institute level to guide and promote educational enhancement and research.

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2017
  • PhD in Nursing (Osteoarthritis pain transmission), University of Birmingham 2012
  • PGCHE Coventry University 2001
  • MSc in Health Sciences (Management and Education), University of Birmingham 1999
  • ENB 100 (Intensive Care Nursing), Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing, Birmingham 1995
  • ENB 998 (Teaching and assessing) Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing, Birmingham 1995
  • RCN Higher Award Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing, Birmingham 1995
  • RGN Charles Frear School of Nursing, 1989

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

MRES, MScR and PhD in:
Clinical pain management including pain assessment, effective practice-based education, patient experience, chronic wound pain management and non-pharmacological pain management.

Health professional education including gamification, motivation for learning, improving aspiration/engagement and attainment in first degree, improving student perception of and engagement with research skills and methods education.

Research

Current research:

Adventures in Research - The Nursing Research Podcast 

Adventures in Research, a nursing research podcast led by Dr Amelia Swift and Bronwyn Tarrant, is a collaboration supported by Universitas 21 Health Sciences group to provide innovation in education of health care professionals about the research process and its application. 

Find out more about Adventures in Research.

Other activities