Current position: Professor of Leadership in Nursing.

Director – The University of Plymouth Centre for Innovations in Health and Social Care: A JBI Centre of Excellence.

Lead investigator for the NIHR TULAY Project.

Director of the Plymouth South West Clinical Schools centre (University Hospitals Plymouth).

• Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (UK)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK)
• Member of Sigma Theta Tau International

• Non Executive Director, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust 2021 to date
• Joanna Briggs Institute Advisory Committee Member 2018 to 2020
• Non Executive Director South West AHSN 2019 to date
• European Regional Council, Sigma Theta Tau 2020 to date, 
• Clinical Academic Roles Implementation Network (CARIN) 2020 to date
• Chief Nursing Officer England, Leading Change Adding Value Research working group member 2017-2019
• NIHR RfPB review panel member South West region 2013 - 2017
• RCN Research Society Committee member 2015 to date
• Editor ‘Implementation Science’ 2009 to 2016
• Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing: Education section editor   2002 to 2012 
• Chair, Eastern Health Human Research Ethics Committee, Melbourne, Australia 2010 to 2012
• Australian Research Council (ARC) ERA Research Evaluation Committee member 2012
• NH&MRC Project Grant Panel Member 2010, 2011
• Expert evaluator for the European Commission FP7 Health-2010 call
• New Zealand Guidelines Group Advisory Board Member 2008-2011
• New Zealand Branch of Australasian Cochrane Centre – advisory board member, 2004 to 2009

21 PhD students supervised to successful completion (UK, Australia and New Zealand).

Systematic review

Research methods

Evidence based practice

Leadership

Management of critically ill adult