Staff directory
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Professor Theresa Smyth
Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care
Theresa is Nurse Consultant in Diabetes at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University. She co-leads and teaches on post-registration, BSc and MSc, courses on diabetes. She has held positions representing diabetes nursing on...
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Dion Smyth
Senior Lecturer (Cancer and Palliative Care)
Dion Smyth is a senior lecturer in cancer and palliative care, and teaches on both the undergraduate pre and post-registration curriculum and postgraduate courses. In the pre-registration BSc Nursing programme, Dion coordinates the module Nursing Practice 2, which addresses cancer, immunology, auto-immune conditions such as...
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Bernie St Aubyn
Senior Lecturer (Adult Nursing)
Bernie St Aubyn has been a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Birmingham City University over the last 14 years and has taught at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She currently works on the BSc Nursing programme. Prior to working at the University she worked as a registered Midwife and registered Health Visitor in...
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Caroline Stevens
Assistant Lecturer in Child Health
Caroline has the role of assistant lecturer within the Children and young people’s health team. For the majority of her career so far she has worked within the community setting. She worked for seven years in the community children's nursing service in Wolverhampton. This involved visiting children, young people and their...
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Martha Stewart
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Programme Lead, Diabetes Care
Martha began her career pathway as a secondary school teacher in Zimbabwe, where she was born. After moving to the UK in 1999, she embarked on her nurse training with Nottingham University and qualified as an Adult nurse in 2002. She worked predominantly within the surgical directorate at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and the...
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Katy Sutherland-Hastings
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Katy is a new member of staff as a Lecturer within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Having begun her career as a Healthcare Assistant, Katy undertook her nursing studies at King’s College London and qualified as a Registered Nurse. With a background in Oncology and Haematology, Katy has worked primarily within...
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Joanna Swan
Senior lecturer in Tissue Viability
Jo completed her RGN in 1994 and began work in a rotational post on a liver unit gaining experience in liver surgery, liver medicine and liver intensive care. Realising intensive care was where she wanted to specialise at this time, she began an 11-year journey through liver and general intensive care nursing. Jo specialised...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Liz graduated from the University of Central England in 2006. Since graduating she has undertaken a rotation in accident and emergency, surgical, medical and acute admission wards. Liz has experience working in critical care for the past 15 years. During this time, she worked with the specialities of cardiac, trauma and burns...
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Dezita Taylor-Robinson
Associate Professor of Nursing & Midwifery
Dezita started her theatre career as a nurse cadet on an apprenticeship scheme and she went on to qualify as an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) back in 2006. Dezita is a passionate and dedicated ODP who has gained professional credibility for her strong work ethic and for being a driving force for change within clinical...
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Alice Temporin
Lecturer in Children and Young People’s Health
Alice is a Lecturer within the Department of Children and Young People’s health, which she joined in October 2023. She graduated as Children’s Nurse in Rome, and she moved to Liverpool, at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital to work in PICU. After two years, she moved to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where she specialised in...