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Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Bernie Carter

Title - " ‘Oh, the stories you’ll tell’: research adventures with Lily and other children"

Date(s)
February 11, 2025
Location
Canada Room/Council Chambers, Lanyon Building, QUB
Time
17:30 - 19:30
Price
Free

You are cordially invited to attend the Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Bernie Carter, Professor of Children's Nursing, Edge Hill University.

Title: "Oh, the stories you’ll tell’: research adventures with Lily and other children"

The lecture will take place on Tuesday 11 February 2025 at 17.30 in the Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, QUB, followed by a reception in the Canada Room.

We live in a world full of stories. We navigate our lives through telling, sharing, and learning from stories. Stories are dynamic, idiosyncratic, and sometimes life-changing. They are formed and reformed though life experiences, the contexts in which they are told, and the responses they elicit. Stories can create connections and understanding, situating storyteller and story-listener in-relation to each other.

However, stories occur in landscapes of power. Too often stories are marginalised because the storyteller is considered unreliable, their story trivial, predictable, or hard to hear. Children were positioned as inarticulate and incompetent storytellers; the truth is very different.

But the stories children (and their families) tell about their pain, their illness, their distress, and their lives can illuminate ways in which nurses and other health professionals can create therapeutic bonds. Thinking about how to respond and act, we can become a positive presence in their stories.

As a story-based researcher, it’s a privilege to listen to and learn from stories and to share what I’ve learnt.

About the speaker

Professor Bernie Carter is Professor of Children's Nursing, Edge Hill University, a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, President of the ABPN since 2020, and previously Director of the Children’s Nursing Research Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool. 
Within Bernie’s specialist subject area of Children’s Nursing, she has edited and/or co-authored 7 books, supervised 32 PhD students to completion, been Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Child Health Care  and in terms of capacity building has initiated, implemented and ‘driven forward’ a range of different events, seminars and opportunities for staff and research students as part of remit to develop a research culture and a ‘community of research practice’. These include: 
  • Write Now! sessions specifically devoted to providing an ‘active haven’ for experienced and novice writers, providing support and encouragement to bring high quality papers to fruition.
  • Created research opportunities for staff to contribute skills and expertise to research projects with the aim of ensuring that there is equity in opportunity.
  • Mentoring and coaching: mentor colleagues with and external to her own University, including those wishing to achieve Readership or Professor status.
  • Drawing on her international networks to help disseminate knowledge via seminars and workshops, alongside expertise of professors and other eminent colleagues. 
Department
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Audience
All
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