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Steve Wanless

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Overview
  • Senior Lecturer
  • School of Professional Practice
  • Faculty of Health
  • Email: stephen.wanless@bcu.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44 (0)121 331 7069

Current Activities

Teaching interests/activities

  • I have been involved in looking at moving and handling issues with Andrea Page for the last year. We have developed Virtuar, an interactive 3D e-learning programme which may have commercial viability.
  • Nursing management skills and simulation.
  • Preceptorship.
  • Ventilation management/renal management in Intensive Care and acute setting.

Research

Development of a vibrating 'suit' that improves posture which could save the NHS millions of pounds a year lost to staff back injuries. Read the full news article.

Hear Steve talking about the vibrating suit project on BBC Radio.

 

Research

Research interests

  • Making moving and handling more interesting and memorable.
  • Improving the effectiveness of motor skills learning in moving and handling training.
  • The use of motion capture and haptic feedback to promote posture and positioning.
  • The use of VoIP to promote student tutorials from remote areas.
  • The use of IPOD touch for student learning.

Current research projects

  • MPhil/ PhD proposal: improving the effectiveness of motor skills learning in moving and handling training for the health care environment.
Publications
  • Faculty Research Conference 2008 - Moving and Handling Paper submitted for 2009.
  • Teaching and Learning Festival 2009 - VoIP workshop/Moving and Handling poster.
  • Naidex April 2009 - Moving and Handling Principles workshop.
  • Creating Effective Educational Frameworks Conference May 2009 - Management Simulation workshop.
  • National Back Exchange Conference Sept 2009 - Rolling a patient: A Motion Capture View. Plenary session.
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