• Associate Professor, Adult Nursing.

• Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA, Accredited for Membership June 2001)

External academic work

Current:

• Editorial Board Member, BMC Nursing. Sept 2022-present.
• International Scientific Advisory Panel member for the Royal College of Nursing annual international nursing research conference 2007-present.

Previous:

• Convener, NET Networking for Healthcare Education conference. Lancaster Sept 2022. 
• Editor in Chief, The Open Nursing Journal. Commenced June 2007. Associate Editor 2013-2019. Editor in Chief 2019-2022
  
• Academic Lead for RD&E Placement Development Team.
• Book Reviews Editor & Editorial Board Member, Journal of Advanced Nursing. 1 January 2003- 1 January 2008.

1). Sherrie Hitchen: Personal Budgets for all? An Action Research Study on Implementing Self Directed Support in Mental Health Services. Successfully completed April 2013. (With Prof Mary Watkins).

2). Margaret Fisher: Engaging, enabling and embedding professionalism through scrutiny of practice in healthcare (by publications. With Prof Ruth Endacott). Dec 2020.

3). Toni Page. Nursing student-led intervention to improve digital health for patients with long-term health conditions (LTCs). With Professor Ray Jones, Dr Helen Lloyd. Feb 2021.

Current teaching:

• Evidence informed decision making.
• Management and leadership.
• Accountable professional module.
• Substantive Professional Project.
• Postgrad supervision at master's and doctoral levels