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. 

 Bernie has the following qualifications:

SRN RSCN (29th July 1980)

BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies (14 July 1989) (First Class) (Manchester Polytechnic)

PGCE Education (Further Education) (June 1991) (University of Wales)

Diploma in Aromatherapy (12th April 1993)

Doctor of Philosophy (June 1995) (Manchester Metropolitan University)

PGCE Postgraduate Research Supervision (June 2004) (University of Central Lancashire)

Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (10th May 2009)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (17th April 2011)

As a psychologist Chantal has extensive clinical and research experience in the psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease. As a researcher, Chantal has been awarded over £16M in competitive funding. Her major interests are in the development and evaluation of brief novel psychosocial interventions for cardiovascular patients and their carers and integrating these into existing health services. She has published widely including journals such as Nature Cardiol Rev, Trends Endocrinol Metab, Cochrane Database Syst Rev, Int J Cardiol and Nature Rev Cardiol. Chantal has expertise in evaluation of health service models of care for patients with cardiovascular disease inclusive of government consultation. 

Jacqueline is the director of Bachelor of Nursing (Post-registration), delivered in Singapore, and is responsible for the development and provision of high-quality, pedagogically sound education.  She is also the  academic lead for Interprofessional Education within the Faculty of Medicine and Health (0.2FTE) at the University of Sydney.  Jacqueline is the chair of the Collaborative Health Education Sydney (CHES) Community of Practice Advisory group and represents the university on the Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Steering Committee. She is Chief Editor for Frontiers in Medicine- Health Professions Education, an international Q1 journal, and regularly chairs accreditation panels for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council. Following her work in  developing and evaluating a digital capability framework and self-assessment tool in Australia,  Jacqueline has been engaged as an external supervisor of a PhD student investigating digital health in the undergraduate curriculum at QUB. Her appointment will facilitate links with the Education and Practice Research theme in the School. 

Links with Latha developed during international knowledge exchange seminars on the use and value of serious games in nurse education.  The School of Nursing and Midwifery have codesigned an evidence-based game that is now being used in colleges of nursing in India. Further work is planned on the co-development of serious games for nursing and midwifery education. Latha’s interests also include the development of midwifery education in India and midwifery simulation to reduce perinatal mortality. She will provide additional opportunities to collaborate on international publications and form additional links with nursing and midwifery colleagues in the Education and Practice Research theme in the School. 

Her recent work includes a focus on improving nursing practice with older people and consideration of nursing workload following the impact of Covid-19.

Fiona provides an important link as a member to the UK Professors in Midwifery and Neonatal Care network which provides career development opportunities in midwifery/maternity care research and education. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology from 2015 until 2021 and is a member of the British Psychological Society, Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology and Marce Society.

Fiona has a PhD in Psychology, Title: Neuropsychology of Alcohol Abuse (1990) and a BSSc Honours in Psychology from Queen’s University Belfast.   She was awarded a Medical Research Council Health Services Research training fellowship in 1998 to support her work on complex pregnancy.

In her current professorial role in the School of Nursing , Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University she is Co-Director of the Centre for Health and Care Research. Her responsibilities include: driving high quality applied research and knowledge exchange through regional, national and international collaborations; developing research capability, focusing particularly on clinical academics; student supervision; coaching academic staff; and supporting curriculum development. 

As an authentic leader, Gillian seeks to enable others to maximise their potential through research, education and scholarship. This has included a variety of national and international roles which include serving on the National Service Improvement Reference Group (NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement) and the Long Covid Clinical Reference Group (NHS England/Health Education England). She is also Trustee of a national patient safety charity (Clinical Human Factors Group), co-convenes the GNLI Alumni Network for Europe on behalf of the International Council of Nurses, and is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.