Nursing and Midwifery staff
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Francesca Renzicchi
Senior Lecturer
Francesca graduated in Nursing in 2012, from the Faculty of “Medicina, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata” and moved to the UK one year after, where she has been practising in different hospital settings, from medical wards to admission, to Critical Care and research. Francesca's areas of interest and expertise cover general...
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Jayne Robbie
Course Lead and senior lecturer in diabetes and vascular disease
Jayne qualified as a podiatrist from Brighton Polytechnic in 1987 and has had a varied career in primary and secondary care working extensively as a diabetes specialist in multi-professional teams as well as having experience managing a large primary care podiatry unit. Jayne was one of the first intake of podiatrists to gain...
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Jean Rogerson RGN AdvDipCH
RGN AdvDipCH
Former Outpatient and Theatre Manager and regularly uses hypnosis in a hospital OPD. Jean teaches Clinical Hypnosis to medical professionals around the UK and is a member of the BSCAH Academic and accreditation Committee and is an accreditation assessor for the society.
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Dr Jaye Ryan
Associate Professor in the Department of Midwifery and Children's Health (MCH)
Jaye joined BCU in 2003, having worked in Paediatric Intensive Care for over 10 years. Jaye is currently convening a MSc Nursing module in Professional Practice and is a dissertation supervisor for several MSc students.
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Samantha Salmon
Lecturer
Prior to lecturing Samantha worked at a short breaks service for adults with learning disabilities, ranging from profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) to mild learning disabilities, focusing on increasing independence. The service comprised of two units, one adapted to accommodate people with complex physical...
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Novia Samuels
Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for MSc Midwifery
Novia has experience in all areas of midwifery and has a specialist interest in enhance midwifery care. She has worked in intrapartum care for over 13 years. She has been a Core High Dependency Unit midwife in one of the UKs large maternity units for over 11 years on a delivery suite and caring for women with extremely...
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Kathryn Sethi
Course Leader for MSc Transforming and Leading in Healthcare
Kat qualified as a nurse in Australia 1997 and worked for 20 years in the NHS across adult and child fields in acute, intensive care and high dependency settings. With a special interest in neurosurgical nursing, Kat worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist for neurosurgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and later at Birmingham...
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Nina Shamaris
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Nina is currently a Senior Lecturer in Adult nursing and her main module she leads on Leadership and Decision-Making/Research Based Leadership and Decision-Making Adult Nursing within the third/fourth year. She is passionate about teaching students to transfer skills from theory into practice and making that difference within...
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Jeena Shiju
Lecturer
Jeena Shiju Graduated in 1999 and has worked in surgical, Trauma and Orthopaedic areas. She has also worked in clinical education supporting and teaching students and staff (ranging from band 2 to senior staff and junior doctors) in both class and clinical practice. Jeena enjoys encouraging and supporting students in...
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Alison Simons
Senior Lecturer of Nursing & Midwifery
Alison was a cancer nurse for 18 years looking after patients with a variety of cancer and receiving a variety of treatments. She was the junior sister of a mixed oncology ward within a large teaching hospital. Alison then went on to become a professional development sister responsible for the educational needs of 200...