Staff profiles
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Paul Drew
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Paul has worked in health care since 2003, starting his career as a HCA and naturally followed the Nursing path and became a registered Nurse in 2008. Paul has worked in a variety of clinical settings within the NHS, including Renal Transplant, Acute Gastrointestinal and Emergency Care. He spent 2 years working within...
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Andrea Driver-Williams
Lecturer
Andrea is a lecturer in Adult Nursing within the School of nursing and Midwifery at Birmingham City University. As part of the module team on NUR6077 she helps teach the 3 rd year students in delivering high-quality, person-centred care. As well as helping deliver the HIV session on NUR5080. She graduated from Birmingham...
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Claire East
Senior Lecturer
Claire qualified with a Diploma in Adult Nursing from BCU in 2010. Claire has previously worked in oncology/haematology caring for pre and post chemotherapy and stem cell transplants. She is passionate about palliative and end of life care, and has worked in palliative care since 2013 in various roles including a clinical nurse...
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Kara Fereday
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Kara is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and is a co module lead for the Delivering high quality, safe nursing care within adult nursing module within the Adult Nursing programme. Kara is also the module lead for the Introduction to Palliative and End of Life Care module which is part of the Post Qualifying Professional...
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Lesley Handyside
Senior Lecturer
Lesley Handyside is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Birmingham City University. Lesley has a nursing and midwifery background, with a long career in general and specialist areas of both fields, where clinical and educational roles were held. Latterly, Lesley was a GPN in primary care, and is currently a nurse educator.
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Dr Mohammed Al-Sheikh Hassan
Lecturer in Health Research
Dr Mohammed is a Lecturer in Health Research and an experienced healthcare professional with over two decades of diverse experience across global healthcare settings. He is passionate about developing the health professionals and leaders of tomorrow, leveraging his rich health industry background and a profound commitment to...
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Tom Hawthorne
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Tom qualified as an Adult Nurse in 2001 from Northumbria University and has a clinical background in Emergency Care, having worked in this setting for 22 years. He has worked in a variety of positions including 6 years as a Clinical Educator. This role involved providing training to all members of the Emergency Department...
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Dr Vivek Indramohan
Associate Professor and Course Lead - Biomedical Engineering
With an overseas research student award (ORSAS) and University of Strathclyde scholarship, Vivek completed his Ph.D. (in Bioengineering) in 2009. Following the completion of his research degree, he commenced his work as a Research Assistant at University College of London (UCL) for 6 months, during which he was successful in...
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Rachel James
Assistant Lecturer
Rachel is an assistant lecturer in Adult Nursing at Birmingham City University and is teaching on module NUR 4033- Providing and Evaluating Care. Rachel will also be facilitating clinical skill sessions at the University. She is passionate about Nurse Education and Pastoral Support and wants to support every student to achieve...
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Ms Bernie Keenan
Senior Lecturer
Bernie Keenan is a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University where she has been the Programme Lead for the PG Cert Long Term Conditions, the Safeguarding Lead for nursing, and is a founding member of the Older People’s Practice Development Unit. Bernie’s extensive clinical background has included both neuro-medicine and...