Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Claire Lynch
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Claire has a clinical background in Neuroscience Nursing. She enjoys working across different areas relating to both medical and surgical nursing skills but has a keen interest in trauma, high dependency and acute care. Claire worked her way through nursing roles from a health care assistant 15 years ago, undertaking her...
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Laura Maguire
Course lead for MSc Enhancing Neonatal Care and MSc Neonatal Critical Care
Laura has worked at BCU since 2021, has completed her PGCert in Teaching and Learning 鈥� Higher Education and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. She qualified as a registered Children鈥檚 Nurse in 2009聽and chose to specialise in neonatal nursing working as a Junior Sister in a busy Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. During this...
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Laura Maguire
Senior Lecturer 鈥� Post Qualifying Practice Department
Laura鈥檚 professional background is in midwifery and health visiting.聽 She has worked in both hospital and community settings, here in the UK and in Australia.聽 She joined 探花直播 in 2014 as a PhD student and Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant (GRTA).聽 Her interests include offering excellence in...
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Francesca Male
Lecturer
Fran is a Lecturer within the Department of Children and Young People鈥檚 health, which she joined in February 2024. She graduated as a Children鈥檚 Nurse after completing the DipHE Child Nursing at De Montfort University in Leicester in 2009. Her career began working on the Neonatal Unit at 探花直播 Women鈥檚 Hospital where she...
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Marianna Mancini
Assistant Lecturer in Midwifery
Marianna has worked as a midwife in a delivery suite for 14 years. For the first half of her working life, she was based in Italy, the country of her birth. However, she chose to leave Italy as she felt undervalued, and that there were a lack of opportunities for professional growth.聽 Here in the UK, Marianna had the...
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Robert Mapp
Associate Professor of Nursing & Midwifery
Rob has worked at 探花直播 since 2010. He is聽passionate about student engagement and how this relates to attrition. Rob is a proud advocate for Nursing at BCU and is currently聽 working on several projects within the university that involve both students and staff.
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David Maynard
Education Facilitator / Numeracy Support Coordinator
David has聽been a member of the聽ADD (Academic Development Department) for over fifteen years. His core role is Numeracy Support Co-ordinator. In this role he supports faculty students in numeracy and mathematics learning. David also advises faculty staff on issues around mathematics learning and teaching. David's background...
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Sharon McLeod
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Admissions Tutor for Adult Nursing
Sharon qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1991 and has worked in both acute and critical care settings. Additionally, Sharon has also worked as a Practice Nurse, Tissue Viability Nurse and Practice Development Nurse. Following the completion of a Master's degree in Advanced Nurse Practice in 2002, she moved into...
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Samantha Meegan
Senior Lecturer in Midwifery
Samantha聽is a senior midwifery lecturer within the Department of Midwifery and Child Health.聽She聽leads modules for student midwives focusing on developing skills within obstetric and neonatal emergency situations, and exploring contemporary issues within midwifery.聽She teaches on a wide range of modules across both midwifery...
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Melanie Mills
Senior Lecturer and Course Lead, MSc Safeguarding
Melanie Mills is a qualified social worker with over twenty years post-qualifying experience in a range of clinical settings. Her interests are predominantly in safeguarding children and young people and mental health across the lifespan but working with whole families and applying a think family approach to all areas of...