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Susan Tate

Susan Tate

Teaching Fellow

Sue is a Teaching Fellow in clinical skills and simulation. She teaches across all pre-registrations nursing programmes.

Her area of special interest is palliative care.

Professor Julie Taylor

Professor Julie Taylor

Head of School of Nursing & Midwifery
Professor of Child Protection

Julie Taylor is Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a nurse scientist specialising in child maltreatment and Professor of Child Protection. Current work is focused on child sexual abuse; disclosures of abuse; neglect; and child abuse linked to faith and belief. Julie also has a strong focus on developing strategic research leadership. In 2018 she was appointed to the Research ...

Mrs Toni Taylor

Mrs Toni Taylor

Assistant Professor

Toni Taylor is Assistant Professor in Continuing Professional Development and module lead for the First Contact module which is part of the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice. She also supports teaches on other postgraduate and undergraduate programmes.

Toni is a registered nurse with most of her clinical experience being in palliative care.

Toni is currently undertaking a PhD and is exploring the ...

Professor Annie Topping

Professor Annie Topping

Professor in Nursing

Professor Annie Topping is a nurse scientist and educator specialising in improving care outcomes. She is Professor of Nursing in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.  Where she works with a team developing research workforce capability and capacity across the nursing, midwifery and allied professions workforce.  

Dr Tracey Valler

Dr Tracey Valler

Senior Lecturer. Lead for Child Field of Practice
Deputy Programme Director MNurs Programmes and Lead for Children鈥檚 Nursing

Dr Tracey Valler is a senior lecturer in Child Health within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has a keen interest in teaching clinical skills and simulation.

Jinu Varghese

Jinu Varghese

Lecturer in Nursing

Jinu is a registered Adult Nurse and Adult Field Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Jinu currently teaches on the Bachelor of Nursing degree modules particularly Acute and Critical Care Nursing.

Mrs Julie Villar

Mrs Julie Villar

Teaching Fellow

Julie is a Teaching fellow in clinical skills and simulation specialised in children nursing.

Dr Christopher Wagstaff

Dr Christopher Wagstaff

Associate Professor

Dr. Chris Wagstaff is an Associate Professor in Mental Health Nursing at the University 麻豆精选. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in mental health, he brings valuable clinical experience to his academic role.

Chris is currently the Head of Global Student Mobility in the College of Medicine and Health. In this role Chris aims to enhance global learning opportunities for PG & UG students ...