Honorary Professors
Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, President of the ABPN since 2020, previously Director of the Children’s Nursing Research Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool. Recognition of an outstanding contribution to both education, research, and practice.
Within Bernie’s specialist subject area of Children’s Nursing, she has edited and/or co-authored 7 books, supervised 32 PhD students to completion, been Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Child Health Care and in terms of capacity building has initiated, implemented and ‘driven forward’ a range of different events, seminars and opportunities for staff and research students as part of remit to develop a research culture and a ‘community of research practice’. These include:
- Write Now! sessions specifically devoted to providing an ‘active haven’ for experienced and novice writers, providing support and encouragement to bring high quality papers to fruition.
- Created research opportunities for staff to contribute skills and expertise to research projects with the aim of ensuring that there is equity in opportunity.
- Mentoring and coaching: mentor colleagues with and external to her own University, including those wishing to achieve Readership or Professor status.
- Drawing on her international networks to help disseminate knowledge via seminars and workshops, alongside expertise of professors and other eminent colleagues.
Bernie has the following qualifications:
SRN RSCN (29th July 1980)
BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies (14 July 1989) (First Class) (Manchester Polytechnic)
PGCE Education (Further Education) (June 1991) (University of Wales)
Diploma in Aromatherapy (12th April 1993)
Doctor of Philosophy (June 1995) (Manchester Metropolitan University)
PGCE Postgraduate Research Supervision (June 2004) (University of Central Lancashire)
Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (10th May 2009)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (17th April 2011)
Chantal is an Honorary Professor at the Australian Centre for Heart Health, Deakin University, Australia and Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
As a psychologist Chantal has extensive clinical and research experience in the psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease. As a researcher, Chantal has been awarded over £16M in competitive funding. Her major interests are in the development and evaluation of brief novel psychosocial interventions for cardiovascular patients and their carers and integrating these into existing health services. She has published widely including journals such as Nature Cardiol Rev, Trends Endocrinol Metab, Cochrane Database Syst Rev, Int J Cardiol and Nature Rev Cardiol. Chantal has expertise in evaluation of health service models of care for patients with cardiovascular disease inclusive of government consultation.
Jacqueline is a Professor of Nursing Education within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). With over 20 years of experience in healthcare education, she is an academic of national and international standing with a record of substantial achievement in senior health education leadership, management, teaching and, relative to opportunity, research.
Jacqueline is the director of Bachelor of Nursing (Post-registration), delivered in Singapore, and is responsible for the development and provision of high-quality, pedagogically sound education. She is also the academic lead for Interprofessional Education within the Faculty of Medicine and Health (0.2FTE) at the University of Sydney. Jacqueline is the chair of the Collaborative Health Education Sydney (CHES) Community of Practice Advisory group and represents the university on the Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Steering Committee. She is Chief Editor for Frontiers in Medicine- Health Professions Education, an international Q1 journal, and regularly chairs accreditation panels for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council. Following her work in developing and evaluating a digital capability framework and self-assessment tool in Australia, Jacqueline has been engaged as an external supervisor of a PhD student investigating digital health in the undergraduate curriculum at QUB. Her appointment will facilitate links with the Education and Practice Research theme in the School.
Latha’s specialist subject area includes Maternity nursing, Neonatal nursing, Infertility, Palliative care, Simulation, Bioethics, Neuro linguistic programming, Qualitative research and Biostatistics, nursing education, midwifery practice.
Links with Latha developed during international knowledge exchange seminars on the use and value of serious games in nurse education. The School of Nursing and Midwifery have codesigned an evidence-based game that is now being used in colleges of nursing in India. Further work is planned on the co-development of serious games for nursing and midwifery education. Latha’s interests also include the development of midwifery education in India and midwifery simulation to reduce perinatal mortality. She will provide additional opportunities to collaborate on international publications and form additional links with nursing and midwifery colleagues in the Education and Practice Research theme in the School.