Professor Ann Bonner is Director of Research in the School of Nursing at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. 

Professor Bonner presented her research to staff and postgraduate students on chronic kidney disease and sought to develop collaborative research projects with QUB staff in the Supportive and Palliative Care research theme (September 2017). 

"Professor Soham Rej is a member of the Faculty of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry at McGill University and Associate Director of Psychosocial Research at the Jewish General Hospital/Lady Davis Institute, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Rej has been working closely with Dr. Helen Noble and Dr. Clare McVeigh, developing behavioral interventions for people experiencing hemo-dialysis and other chronic physical conditions, with an emphasis on mindfulness interventions. He is planning a visit to the School in April 2024."

Professor Juliet MacArthur is Chief Nurse Research and Development in NHS Lothian, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.  She is the strategic lead for nursing and midwifery research and also supports research capacity building in the allied health professions, pharmacy and healthcare science.  She is professional lead for 180 clinical research nurses and midwives working in Lothian, supporting the conduct of clinical trials.

Juliet presented her reflections on leading research capacity building initiatives over the last 12 years, working in collaboration with six academic partners across a range of professions (April 2023) Vision, Visibility and Values: building research capacity through collaborative leadership.   She will be collaborating with QUB staff on research capacity building and developing the nursing and midwifery consultant role in practice.

Dr Ahmed Al-Smadi is Associate Professor in Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, Al al-Bayt University Jordan. 

Dr Al-Smadi is based in Jordan and will be working with Professor Kevin Gormley in MBRU (Mohammed Bin Rashid University). 

Dr Lei Clifton is Senior Medical Statistician in the Translational Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford.

During her visit to our School in June 2019 Dr Clifton hosted a talk to a number of Lecturers and PhD students on the topic ‘How to design a feasibility randomised controlled trial – the experience of a medical statistician’.

Professor Kathryn King-Shier is a member of the Faculty of Nursing and Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada.

During her visit to Queen’s University (April 2018) she sought to extend research collaborations with Dr Chantal Ski and Professor David Thompson in cardiovascular health with a focus on gender and ethnicity. 

Dr Fiona Lynn is a visiting scholar at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil. 

Dr Helen Kerr was visiting scholar at The University of British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada in May 2017.

The purpose of the visit was to inform the development of guidelines relating to the transition from children’s to adult services for children with life limiting conditions.  

Dr Mark Linden was visiting scholar at the Centre for Brain Injury Research & Training, University of Oregon, USA in 2016.

This work involved consultation with Prof Ann Glang and her team at the Centre for Brain Injury Research & Training on outcome measurement for a newly developed classroom-based intervention.

Dr Esther Reid has been closely involved with charity working and teaching between midwifery students at QUB and those at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She has sought to establish collaborative working arrangements with the Dean of Health Sciences: Dr Rose Nabirye and Lecturer: Dr Scovia Mbalinde