Professor Annie Topping

PhD, PGCE, BSc (Hons) RN, LNEd (Qatar) FHEA

Annie Topping has clinical experience in a range of settings and roles including working as a clinical nurse specialist in gastrointestinal oncology and stoma care in a national cancer hospital. From 2013-2017 she was Assistant Executive Director of Nurse Education at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar and Adjunct Clinical Professor - University of Calgary - Qatar. Previously Professor of Nursing at the University of Huddersfield (2007-2013) and was Head of Nursing (2001-2007) at the University of Bradford.

Her most recent work is concerned with interrogating clinically available data to understand the impact of the nursing workforce on patient outcomes and factors that facilitate and acts as barriers to accessing, identifying high quality and substandard care in order to improve services.

Over her lengthy career in higher education, Annie has undertaken a number of educational research and evaluation projects examining decision-making and assessment of competence, acquisition of communication skills, license to practice decisions, mentorship and strategies to enhance research capabilities. 

She has held a number of national positions here in the UK and the Middle East including Chair of the RCN Research Society and nurse member – Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners Continuing Professional Development Committee. She also has a keen interest in applied research ethics and served on institutional review boards in both the UK and Qatar. 

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

• Leadership in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Dissertation (Undergraduate and MSc)

Subject Specialism

• Effects of healthcare workforce staffing, roles, skill mix and educational preparation on patient outcomes
• Interventions and improvements to reduce delays, minimise risk, increase concordance, quality and satisfaction with care
• Cancer care
• Educational interventions associated with decision-making, competence and extended and expanded roles

 Methodology

• Quality Improvement Research  
• Mixed methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Qualitative synthesis

• NUrse GraduaTeness and patient mortality (NuGat Study)
• Service users experience of Mental Illness in Qatar: A Narrative Study
• Transitional Experience of Post-Diploma Nurses returning to University for a undergraduate degree in Qatar
• Nurse Educator SimuLaTED Learning – NEStled Project
• Evidence Review of Active and Advanced Disease in Cancer see http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/19674/1/FeatherstoneRapid.pdf
• Healthy Halifax Healthy Lifestyle Survey and Evaluation  
• Comparison of supportive care models of follow up for women with breast cancer

• Associate Editor – BMC Medical Education
• Member of the Editorial Board – Journal of Research in Nursing
• Nurse Member of the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Accreditation Committee (2015 – 2017)
• Member of the Qatar National Dementia Stakeholder Forum (Ministry of Public Health, WHO Global Dementia Observatory) and Co-chair of the Education and Workforce Sub-committee (2016-2017)
• Chair – Management Committee and Steering Group Clinical Academic Training Programme Mentorship Scheme (Chief Nursing Officer [CNO]), Chief Scientific Officer [CSO] National Institute for Health Research [NIHR] (2011-2013)
• Member of the CNO/NIHR Clinical Academic Careers Training Programme Implementation Group (2011-2013)
• Chair of RCN Research Society Committee 2009-2011
• Elected Member of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Research Society Steering Group (2004-2013)
• Member of the Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Nurse Practitioner Research Sub-Group
• International Council of Nursing (ICN), 2012-2016