Professor Carol Hall - Director of Global Engagement, School of Health Sciences
Carol’s work includes supporting a team of course leads to ensure effective implementation of the Bachelor in Nursing, Undergraduate Masters in Nursing Science and the Graduate Entry Masters in Nursing, Bsc Physiotherapy, Bsc Sports Rehabilitation courses and Bachelor Level Midwifery programmes.
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"TransCoCon is giving us a huge opportunity to explore what we can sometimes take for granted – what we all understand by excellent patient care. Placing excellent care in a cultural perspective and sharing our expectations as we make our case studies into reusable learning objects for student learning is both enhancing cultural understanding and enhancing teaching and learning for patient care. I can't wait to work with our students on the final products. "
Carol Hall is Professor in Nursing Education and Director for Undergraduate Education in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham.
Carol facilitates undergraduate students to develop their understanding of international nursing and supports students from the UK and internationally who are studying to achieve Masters and PhD qualifications in Nursing.
Her particular areas of expertise lie within nursing education, children and young peoples nursing and international studies using mixed or qualitative methodologies. Carol's post doctoral work related to the development of skills for children's nursing practice, specifically, the consideration of confidence and competence in medicines administration practices, a topic which has global resonance for teaching and learning. Latterly, this has developed into a wider consideration of the contextual development of skills and knowledge for nursing, focusing on the development of inspirational education within a policy context.
Carol's particular areas of expertise relate to inspirational teaching and learning methods, policy modernisation for the support of professional nursing education and leadership in the development of International faculty. Carol has also worked internationally and nationally to review and accredit quality programmes for nursing, both in pre-registration studies and at higher education levels including MSc and Phd. She has recently been appointed Chair of the UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Subject Pilot Panel for Medicine and Health Sciences.
Carol contributes regularly as a member of expert working groups advising around the impact of European and International Nursing Education, and this has included working for a number of years with the Policy and International Department in the Royal College of Nursing and The Council of Deans for Health in the UK. She is past Chair of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Education Forum (2009-2015) and an active executive council member of the European Federation of Nurse Educators (FINE).
Mary Brown - Associate Professor. Global Engagement Lead, Division of Nursing & Erasmus Coordinator, School of Health Sciences
Mary had an interest in nurse education developed as a staff nurse within children's services at Nottingham Children's Hospital, where she is specialising in Paediatric Oncology.
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"The TransCoCon project highlights similarities and differences within nurse education and nursing styles across our teams. It is a bonus that many of the group have worked together on the TRaNSForM project as we have built good working relationships that allow us to have heated discussions and also laugh with each other"
Mary Brown is Assistant Professor within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham.
Mary has worked within the School of Health Sciences since 2010 and has developed her interests in supporting nursing students within clinical practice, supporting student mobility, global health, nursing innovation and enabling student nurses to engage with learning through gaining knowledge through reflection and experiential learning. An interest in nurse education developed as a staff nurse within children's services at Nottingham Children's Hospital, where she specialising in Paediatric Oncology. During this time, she supported student learning, gaining and sharing knowledge to promote nursing excellence that enhances job satisfaction, effective patient care and patient experiences.
Since 2011, Mary has been involved with the development of nursing curricula and module development to support nursing students in becoming knowledgeable practitioners and registrants with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. In addition, supporting post registration education and lifelong learning through work based education programmes. Mary was part of the Training Requirements and Nursing Skills for Mobility ('TRaNSForM') project to deliver the European Shared Treasure Star project in 2012. Using knowledge gained from participating in the Transform project, she has been instrumental in developing curricula modules to support students to gain credit for cultural understanding and learning.
She is lead for student electives within the nursing curriculum supporting student nurse’s personal and professional development through process and project management and decision-making. She is also the Erasmus Lead for Nursing, maintaining and developing reciprocal exchange agreements with partners across Europe and is part of the Global Engagement Team at the School of Health Sciences.
Student mobility opportunities through nursing electives and ERASMUS+ exchanges continue to expand with many students linking with the wider global nursing community locally and internationally. Many of the structures she has implemented to support student mobility, cross professions and are supporting student mobility within related health care curricular.
Stacy Johnson, MBE - Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences
After training as a nurse and completing a BSc in Health Studies at the University of Manchester, Stacy read for a Masters degree in Economic and Quantitative Methods in Healthcare at City, University of London.
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Stacy is an inspirational teacher, an award-winning lecturer and champion of equality, diversity and inclusion, whose work has shaped nursing and Higher Education around the world.
After training as a nurse and completing a BSc in Health Studies at the University of Manchester, Stacy read for a Masters degree in Economic and Quantitative Methods in Healthcare at City, University of London.
Stacy is in demand as an advisor and speaker on healthcare and Higher Education equality, diversity and inclusion. Since 2012, Stacy has been advising England's Chief Nurse on matters affecting black and minority ethnic (BME) patients and staff as a member of the Chief Nursing Officer's BME Advisory Group.
She also lectures and researchers in the areas of healthcare leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Stacy has developed an exemplary reputation for capacity and capability building in the international Higher Education sector. She leads the School of Health Sciences' strategy on and is a visiting lecturer at the Henan University of Science and Technology in China.
She has been involved in advising on curriculum reform, faculty development and leadership development in nurse education in the UK, South Africa, China, the Middle East, India and the Caribbean. She has been an external examiner at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, Witswatersrand University, South Africa, London Southbank University, England and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Stacy was appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to healthcare and High Education equality, diversity and inclusion in the 2019 New Year Honours.
In 2018, Stacy’s work was recognised in the UK Teaching Excellence Awards for an innovative European Junior Leadership Academy for student nurses and midwives.
Mara Sprengel-Smith - Contract Delivery Support Officer in the School of Health Sciences
Mara supports several Erasmus+ projects in the School of Health Sciences.
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Mara Sprengel-Smith is the Contract Delivery Support Officer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham. She supports several Erasmus+ projects, in an administrative capacity, working on everything from arranging agreements to financial reporting to booking student travel to creating and maintaining websites.
She joins the TransCoCon team to coordinate project expenditure, and to provide financial reporting and budget monitoring support. Mara has a background in Clinical Trials Coordination and Project Management in the NHS.
Most recently she supported clinicians in the conception, delivery and dissemination of research projects, helping them to negotiate approvals and funding processes, collating recruitment data, and tracking project finances.
Dr Stathis Konstantinidis - Assistant Professor in e-Learning and Health Informatics Institute
Stathis is the Director of the MSc course, Quality and Patient Safety Improvement at University of Nottingham, and an active member of DICE research group and HELM team, whose work spans a number of intertwining themes on Digital innovations in Education.
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"Looking towards the preparation of our future Nurses for our contemporary societies, competences on transcultural nursing should be integral part of undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. TransCoCon will enable through a series of high impact Reusable Learning Objects, the transcultural awareness of current and future European healthcare workforce."
Dr Stathis Konstantinidis holds a PhD in Medical Sciences focusing on Medical Education Informatics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He is Computer Scientist by background (BSc, University of Crete, GR) and he has teaching qualifications from University of West Macedonia and University of Nottingham, while he holds an MSc in Medical Informatics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently he is the director of the MSc course Quality and Patient Safety Improvement at University of Nottingham, UK, and an active member of DICE research group and HELM team, which work spans a number of intertwining themes on Digital innovations in Education. In the past, he was a researcher (2012-2015) for more than two years at the Northern Research Institute (NORUT) based at Tromso, Norway.
He was teaching at Technological Educational Institute of West Macedonia, Kozani, Greece (2006-2011) and he was a research associate at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for 6 years (2006-2012). He served as a member of the Global Healthcare Workforce Council (2015- 2016) and as OKFN ambassador in Norway (2013-2016), while his teaching experience in higher education and CDP spans across different countries including UK, Greece and Norway. He has a great publication portfolio (2 books, 15 book chapters, 15 journal papers and over 40 peer reviewed conference papers), while he has served as the co-chair of 2 International Conferences : 2nd International Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI2015) and IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems(CBMS2017) and the CAMEI Summer School, among other special sessions organisations in multiple international conferences.
He is a guest editor on IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and Springer Journal Health and Technology. Dr Konstantinidis was the project coordinator of CAMEI (FP7 - CSA) (www.camei-project.eu), while he was managing the Interregional project "Collaboration for the common confrontation of problems of health in the cross border region of Greece-FYROM" (INTERREG IIIA/ Greece-FYROM) and led the technical part of multiple projects like mEducator (EU eContentPlus Programme), East Midlands EPIFFANY (Effective Performance Insight for the Future) Educator Development Programme (EMEEDP), HEE, etc. His research includes among other collaborative e-learning; social media; content sharing, retrieval and repurposing; educational standards; virtual patients, web of data; virtual reality; semantic web; learning analytics; serious games; gamification and exergames.
Michael Taylor - Learning Technologist, School of Health Sciences
Michael is involved in the project management and development of local, national and international research driven, multi-media rich e-learning resources.
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"TransCoCon is such a fantastic Erasmus plus project, which allows health care specialists and academics from 5 countries based across Europe with the unique opportunity to share experiences and develop a suite of resources that focus on a patients journey from admission through to discharge."
Michael works in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham and is involved in the project management and development of local, national and international research driven, multi-media rich e-learning resources.
He has an MSc in Information Technology and a BA in Multimedia development and is currently working towards a senior fellowship award.
His research interests include all aspects of pedagogical design in relation to accessibility and usability of online learning resources.
Helen Laverty, MBE - Professional Lead for Learning Disability Nursing
A passionate advocate and supporter for those living with a learning disability, Helen has been influential in the education and development of more than 700 learning disability nurses at the University of Nottingham. Alongside her academic responsibilities she founded Positive Choices — the only national network of learning disability students, academics, employers, people with a learning disability and families in the UK.
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Helen first became interested in learning disabilities when on a school volunteering placement at the age of 14 and has now been a registered nurse for more than 30 years. She joined the University in 1994 as a nurse teacher and is currently the Professional Lead for Learning Disability Nursing within the School of Health Sciences.
She founded and facilitated Positive Choices in 2004 with the motto that ‘together we are better’ and as a result she has helped shape the national debate regarding health and social care for individuals with learning disabilities and their families.
Through the network Helen also delivers an annual conference on learning disability funded by her active campaigning locally and nationally. In 2018, 700 delegates travelled to Dublin for the event the highlight being the ambassadorship of the Time to shine graduates. Helen also works in charities such as the Down’s Heart Group, has written a book on care for children in a respite setting, and more recently has worked with the Looking Up Book Team from Cornwall Down’s Syndrome Support Group to produce Going to tea at Grandma’s — a picture book celebrating the role that grandparents play in family life where one child has Down’s syndrome.
In 2018, Helen was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her expertise in learning disability nursing and her pioneering work in shaping Government policy on health and social care. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the RCNi Nurse Awards Learning Disability Practice Award. Helen is the only academic educator to ever be shortlisted for this award, testament to the impact she has on nursing practice across the UK.
Mark Pearson - Teaching Associate
Mark joined the TransCoCon team in 2018 to take on a role to predominantly support the content development of the Nottingham RLO.
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Prior to joining the University of Nottingham in 2016, Mark spent the majority of his clinical career working as a specialist mental health nurse in a variety of community roles.
His research interests include health humanities, nurse education and medicines management in mental health nursing.
Mark is currently undertaking a PhD exploring the potential for written and spoken word poetry to support the meaning making of psychotic experiences.