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Liz Clark

Principal Lecturer

Liz joined the university in 2005 as a Senior Lecturer in the Nursing team. Prior to working in higher education, he held a range of senior clinical and educational posts within an acute NHS Trust.

Liz is a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife, an experienced nursing academic and a Fellow of the HEA. Following clinical practice, working across a number of clinical areas within acute and community care, she has been involved in higher education across a range of pre-and post-registration and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes.

Liz now works as a Principal Lecturer within the School of Health and teaches across both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and healthcare courses. She has published on nursing related issues including the value of masters level study, study skills for master’s level students and the practice assessor role within student supervision and assessment.

Current Teaching

Liz teaches into a range of undergraduate and postgraduate provision within nursing and healthcare. Her teaching interests include leadership and management with a particular focus on compassionate leadership, professional learning in practice and the transition from student to registered nurse.

Current teaching responsibilities range across a number of nursing modules relating to Management of the Research Process, Evidencing Professional Learning, Leading and Managing with Compassion, Leadership, Management, Leadership and Enterprise. She also leads the Research in Practice (dissertation) module.

Courses:

MSc Health and Community Care
MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
PGDip Community Specialist Practitioner - District Nursing

Research Interests

Liz's research interests focus on education to support workforce and practitioner development. Previous research explored newly qualified nurses’ experiences and perceptions of preceptorship in relation to their educational and training needs within an acute care environment.