Dr Amelia Swift RGN, MSc, PhD, PGCHE, SFHEA

Dr Amelia Swift

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Reader in Health Professional Education
Head of Education (Nursing)

Contact details

Address
Institute of Clinical Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Amelia is a Reader in Health Professional Education and the Head of Education for the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She teaches widely across the pre-registration programmes and also contributes to post-graduate teaching in her specialist area of pain. Amelia is a champion of technology enhancement and works at Institute level to guide and promote educational enhancement and research.

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2017
  • PhD in Nursing (Osteoarthritis pain transmission), University 麻豆精选 2012
  • PGCHE Coventry University 2001
  • MSc in Health Sciences (Management and Education), University 麻豆精选 1999
  • ENB 100 (Intensive Care Nursing), Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing, Birmingham 1995
  • ENB 998 (Teaching and assessing) Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing, Birmingham 1995
  • RCN Higher Award Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing, Birmingham 1995
  • RGN Charles Frear School of Nursing, 1989

Teaching

Teaching Programmes

Postgraduate supervision

Amelia is interested in supervising projects with a focus on health professional education, clinical pain management, and practice-based pain education. Approaches used are quantitative or mixed methods.

Amelia is also keen to support the nursing, midwifery and allied health research pipeline and is supporting health professionals from a variety of backgrounds to undertake MRES and PhD studies as clinical academics.

Research

Current research:

Adventures in Research - The Nursing Research Podcast聽

Adventures in Research, a nursing research podcast led by聽Dr Amelia Swift听补苍诲听Bronwyn Tarrant, is a collaboration supported by Universitas 21 Health Sciences group to provide innovation in education of health care professionals about the research process and its application.聽

Find out more about Adventures in Research.

Other activities

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Fletcher, J, Brown, M, Hewison, M, Swift, A & Cooper, SC 2023, '', Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 205-214.

Donagh, B, Bradbury-Jones, C, Swift, A & Taylor, J 2022, '', BMJ open, vol. 12, no. 10, e065022.

Kerr, A, Lugg, ST, Kadiri, S, Swift, A, Efstathiou, N, Kholia, K, Rogers, V, Fallouh, H, Steyn, R, Bishay, E, Kalkat, M & Naidu, B 2022, '', BMJ open, vol. 12, no. 6, e057498.

Al mushaikhi, M, Taylor, J, Donagh, B & Swift, A 2022, '', Child Care in Practice, pp. 1-26.

Shepherd, LM, Schmidtke, KA, Hazlehurst, JM, Melson, E, Dretzke, J, Hawks, N, Arlt, W, Tahrani, AA, Swift, A & Carrick-Sen, DM 2022, '', European Journal of Endocrinology , vol. 187, no. 1, pp. S1-S20.

Fletcher, J, Bedson, E, Brown, M, Hewison, M, Swift, A & Cooper, SC 2021, '', Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 79.

Fletcher, J, Swift, A, Hewison, M & Cooper, SC 2020, '', Nutrients, vol. 12, no. 4, 1064.

Comment/debate

McGrath, L & Swift, A 2020, '', Evidence Based Nursing, vol. 24, no. 4.

Editorial

Swift, A, Banks, L, Baleswaran, A, Cooke, N, Little, C, McGrath, L, Meechan-Rogers, R, Neve, A, Rees, H, Tomlinson, A & Williams, G 2020, '', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 29, no. 17-18, pp. 3111-3114.

Swift, A 2020, '', Evidence Based Nursing, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 65-67.

Other contribution

Fletcher, J, Cooper, SC, Cooney, R, Hewison, M, Iqbal, T & Swift, A 2021, . Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York. <>

Review article

Fletcher, J, Bishop, E, Harrison, S, Williamson-Swift, A, Cooper, SC, Dimeloe, S, Raza, K & Hewison, M 2022, '', Endocrine Connections, vol. 11, no. 3, e210554.

Milne, J, Swift, A, Smith, J & Martin, R 2021, '', Journal of Wound Care, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 568-580.

Fletcher, J, Swift, A, Hewison, M & Cooper, S 2021, '', Nurse Researcher.

Fletcher, J, Cooper, SC & Swift, A 2021, '', Gastroenterology Insights, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 225-237.