Our members represent a diversity of medical, health and care professionals, researchers and academics from across the UK and beyond.
C4CHEd members
Our membership represents a diverse community champions for compassion in healthcare education
Some of our members
Rachel Hicks
PhD Candidate (and person with Type 1 Diabetes) examining consumer perspectives of diabetes and pregnancy, Western Sydney University. Representation and advocacy for people with diabetes.
Alex Mallinson
Speech & Language Therapy Programme Lead, Marjon University. Communication, Schwartz Rounds & using narrative to explore experiences, arts & humanities-based approaches to clinical education. Compassion in all aspects of clinical interaction and training.
Dr Hannah Andrews
Assistant Professor - Nursing. Coventry University. Self care. Self compassion. Wellbeing. Compassionate care giving.
Dr Annie Mitchell
Clinical Psychologist, Independent practice. Community psychology, humane inclusive values and social, political determinants of health and wellbeing. Climate psychology.
Mike Chitty
Leadership Developer, Realise Development. Team, organisation, system and leadership development consultant. Research interest, ethics of care.
Dr Jennifer Jones
Associate Professor Radiography, University of Plymouth. Compassion integrated with inter professional learning. Lived experience. How to show compassion to patients in the very short interactions that radiographers have with them.
Dr Sarah Jackson
Consultant, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Movement disorders, lewy body, dementia, Schwartz rounds.
Mr David Alderson
Writer and Consultant ENT surgeon, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. Learning to live with our mistakes. The power of the Arts to nurture compassion in Healthcare and Health Education.
Nicola Freeman
Practice Development Nurse, Nottingham University Hospitals. Learning from our mistakes with compassion. Clinical incidents Simulation-based education. Human factors.
Dr Theresa Martin
Clinical Programme Developer, University of Portsmouth. Pastoral care, compassion, burnout - for medical students and junior doctors.
Dr Caroline Haw
University Teacher and Speech and language therapist, University of Sheffield. Accessible information for people with aphasia.Living with long term communication disability. Strong interest in compassionate leadership.
Dr Megan Brown
Third year PhD student Med Ed, Hull York Medical School. Empathy development in medical students and the concept of empathic dissonance. Moral identity development.
Dr Anna Biley
Writer Faculty Associate. Watson Caring Science Institute. Autoethnography, care, compassion, spirituality. 'Birds Hold our Secrets: A Caritas Story of Grief and Remembering' based on my doctoral research.
Dr Jon Andrews
Assistant Professor – Mental Health Nursing, Coventry University. Self Compassion. Clinical Assessments. Mental Health.
Andrew Cashmore
Adult Nurse Lecturer, University of Plymouth. Compassion, kindness, student nurse and nursing associate resilience.
Lynn Collins
Professional Development Nurse, Sussex Community Foundation Trust. Post grad Ed, compassionate leadership across healthcare. Impact of tech to learning. experience of international nurses in the NHS.
Tracy Spencer
Senior Mental Health Nurse with Livewell Southwest Home Treatment Team supporting individuals to remain safe & supported at home during periods of crisis.
Compassionate about supporting students, especially with Neurodiversity.
Tracey Boylin
CEO Organistaional Genetics, a specialist HR, consultancy and tech company. Interested in Compassionate Cultures.
Dr Sofia Cuevas-Asturias
PICU grid trainee, Bristol Children's hospital. PICU identity. Wellbeing. Long term and complex care paediatric patients. Well And Resilient Doctors (WARD) southwest network.
Stacie May
Registered Nurse. Compassion within care, particularly dementia care and how we support staff, relatives and the individuals themselves. Health inequalities, homeless community, impact of compassion.
Julie Gibson
Student Nurse, University of Plymouth. Mature student, nearly qualified, going to work in the community.
Cath Hubbuck
Senior Health Play Specialist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Children's experiences of hospital and healthcare issues, enabling them to make choices and express preferences relating to their health and care.
Dr Daniel Zahra
Lecturer in Assessment Psychometrics, University of Plymouth. Medical and Dental Education, psychology, sociology, philosophy, assessment, statistics, interprofessional education.
Dr Chris Irons
Director and Clinical Psychologist, Balanced Minds and BalO. All things compassion, Compassion Focused Therapy and Compassionate Mind Training. Attachment theory, shame, self-criticism and wellbeing.
Dr Claire Donohoe
Consultant surgeon, Trinity St James Cancer Institute, Dublin. Interested in how to teach and assess the skill of compassion in medical education.
Dr Sophie MacKenzie
Senior lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy, AECC University College, Bournemouth. Aphasia, Spirituality in Healthcare. PhD explored stories of spirituality of people with post-stroke aphasia.
Dr Annalisa Manca
Medical Educationalist, GP Federation Support Unit, Belfast. Critical Pedagogy in Medical Education, understanding how the social, cultural, historical and political dynamics influence the practice of medicine and compassionate care.
Belinda Moore
Paediatric nurse, Registered midwife, Credentialed diabetes educator. The Royal Melbourne Hospital , Australia. Peer support. Self-compassion in healthcare. Consumer engagement. Diabetes in paediatrics and pregnancy.
Andrea Stebbings
Midwifery Lecturer, University of Plymouth. Interprofessional learning, communication and professional advocacy. Lead on Professional Advocacy module uses quality improvement & restorative clinical supervision to support the workforce.
Stephanie Naylor
Maternity Clinical Educator, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Simulation training. Maternity training in general.
Dr Layth Tameem
Anaesthesia registrar, UH Bristol. Director of Well And Resilient Doctors (WARD). Peer support, improving wellbeing, fostering NHS environments of compassionate, high-quality care.
Flora Smyth Zahra
Clinical Senior Lecturer Interdisciplinarity & Innovation Dental Education, King's College London. Professional Identity Formation. Arts & Humanities in Clinical Ed. Museum based Ed. Pedagogy of Care. Humanistic Clinical Ed.
Dr Katie Davis
Mental health nursing lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University. Dementia, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Compassion for others.
Anna Baverstock
Paediatrician and colleague wellbeing lead, Somerset Foundation trust. Specialising in looking after children with neuro disability. Member of the Trust Wellbeing strategy group.
Dr Poornima Pandey
Paediatric Consultant, Kettering General Hospital. Simulation, Patient safety, data, outcomes.
Bev Maund
Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Truro-Penwith College. Teaching compassion in nurse education students perceptions of compassion in practice.
Claire Flatt
Lead for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP leadership development, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Storytelling for leadership, authenticity and compassion.
Dr Julia Stewart
Associate director of health and wellbeing, Plymouth Marjon University. Clinical education; developmental speech and language disorders.
Gita Ralleigh
Medical consultant and lecturer in creative writing, also a published poet. Literature and creative writing in medical training, medical humanities, poetry.
Dr Carmel Bond
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Sheffield Hallam University. Compassion in nursing; nurse education; leadership development; discourse studies.
Sally Bullingham-Taylor
Adult Student Nurse, Swansea University. Compassion, nursing and yogic philosophy. Compassion, leadership and future nurse development.
Jayne Murphy
Senior Teaching Fellow, Aston University. A Queen's nurse with interests in education, dementia, capacity and best interests, prescribing and community nursing.
Caroline Jamison
Associate Professor in Nursing/Associate Head of School and Apprenticeship Lead, University of Plymouth. Leadership roles in education and clinical practice in the UK and abroad. Interests in person centred compassionate care and self compassion.
Julie McCoy
Lecturer in Adult Nursing, University of Plymouth. Global health, healthcare for asylum seekers -post displacement.
Jo Boote
Lecturer in mental health, specialist community public/mental health nurse, University of Plymouth. Mental health, perinatal mental health, reflective practice, trauma informed approaches, object based learning with nursing.
Hannah Featherstone
Student Nurse Adult Health, Edinburgh Napier University. Yoga in health care and compassionate leadership.
Dr Debbie Ling
Lecturer, Senior Clinician Social Worker, Research Fellow, Monash University. Compassion, common humanity, in-group/out-group distinctions, prosocial behaviour, doctor burnout, health, mental health, healthcare worker training.
Julie Blake
Trainee Nursing Associate, University Hospitals Plymouth. Compassion in every day interaction is a necessary component of communication. I am interested in civility and compassion in the workplace, and in the world.
Claire Sutton
Lecturer - Adult Nursing (Acute Care), University of Bradford. Compassion; Relational dimensions of pedagogy/andragogy/heutagogy; Autoethnographies.
Michelle Cotter
2nd year Mental health nursing student. Veterans and PTSD, professional sports and mental health, animal therapy.
Mushtag Kahin
Community Engagement Practitioner, Barnet Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust. Transcultural psychiatry, mental health, inequalities, ethnic minorities, compassionate and transcultural leadership. MSc student in mental health.
Kate Owen
Director of Medical Studies, Warwick University Medical School. General Practitioner focussing on medical education. Role modelling and learning compassion. Collaboration with students and people with lived experience.
Andy Ward - GP, Director of Education and Training.
Empathy and compassion in medical education. Lead for the Compassionate Holistic Diagnostic Detective course, covering communication skills, examination skills, diagnostic reasoning, patient safety, diversity and patient-centred care.
Kathryn Bamforth - Trust Lead Research Allied Health Professional, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
PhD Exploring the Psychological Wellbeing of Healthcare Professionals. What does psychological wellbeing at work mean to healthcare professionals and for patients’ experiences of care?
Sarah Crofts - Student nurse, University of Plymouth
Worked in mental health, including forensic, and learning disability social care for 10 years. Interested in how compassionate care and trauma-informed support can improve outcomes, especially for women and girls.
Francesca Knifton - Student Nurse, University of Plymouth
Worked within the NHS for 11 years as a Maternity support Worker at King's College Hospital, and as a Health Care Assistant and Nursing Associate in community hospitals in South Devon, and am currently a third year student nurse.
Vicki Gardner
Practice Education Facilitator, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Forty plus years experience as a District Nurse Team leader and educator facilitating and supporting specialist practitioners. I have an interest in and teach on leadership programs.
Kellie Bateman
Clinical leadership fellow, Health Education and Improvement Wales. Compassion, unconscious bias, coaching, leadership.
Professor Chris Holland - Dean and Consultant in Intensive Care
Founding Dean of Kent and Medway Medical School. Career in medicine and medical education, working with national education bodies, the General Medical Council and Local Enterprise Partnerships. Interests in leadership and inter-professional education.
Vanda Carter - Practice Education Facilitator for Research, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Over 32 years in the NHS mostly in Oncology research. A Nurse Researcher & Educator, enabling others, promoting research engagement. Interests in health care management & policy, safety, quality and innovation. Also a PhD student.
Alison Wells - Deputy Head of Nurse Education, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
A nurse educator for many years. Interested in how we promote compassion in the workplace. Recent work around Professional Nurse and Midwifery Advocates and how we implement the role into the organisation. Compassionate conversations. Compassion fatigue.
Lisa Lawton - Matron for Pre Registration Education, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
Nurse Educator collaborating with universities for over 20 years supporting student nurses, midwives, AHPs in clinical practice to develop into registered practitioners fit for practice. Interests also in incivility, transition skills and simulation.
Gavin Cullen - Nurse Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University
A mental health nurse for 30 years, including Child & Adolescent. Completing a PhD. Compassion-based interventions for: health and social care staff, higher education, psychological problems and mindfulness.
Vanessa Waller - Associate Professor, Anglia Ruskin University
Registered Nurse, 25+ years in healthcare education development. PhD on nurses applying self-compassion. Other interests: language of compassion, collaborative inter-professional development of tools to support compassion and self-compassion.
Penny Hodgkinson
Lecturer & Speech & Language Therapist, University of Essex. Narrative approaches in health care and health care education, unheard voices. Life story and creative writing with marginalised groups to help them get their voices heard.
Timothy Murray - Lecturer in Adult Nursing, University of Plymouth
Experienced in Cardiac Intensive Care, Respiratory and Cardiology Nursing, Clinical Nursing Management. Also interested in civility in Healthcare, Safer Staffing Modelling, Person-centered care, Nurse-led clinical decision making.
Dr Philip Molyneux - Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Practice Coordinator, University of Hull
Experience in neuropsychology and physical health. Interests in understanding Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) with for e.g., maternal mental health, and in different settings, such as higher education.
Jody Thompson
Project Manager & Communications Specialist, CAIPER- Arizona State University. Inter-professional Teamness and Teamwork, IPE, Digital Audience Strategy, Medical Humanities.
Barret Michalec - Associate Professor & Director CAIPER, Arizona State University
Sociologist, research in socialization & professionalization processes & mechanisms nested within health professions education. Patient-centred, team-based healthcare delivery, empathy, humility, belongingness, and inter-professionalism.
Ruth Serlin - Lecturer in Veterinary Professionalism, Royal Veterinary College
Qualified as a vet, worked in primary care charity practice for over 25yrs. Recently teaching vet students and professionals. Research into communication in veterinary practice.
Kizzy Machin - Student Nurse Apprentice, University of Plymouth/Somerset Foundation Trust
Mental Health services for 17+ years. Passionate about leading from the front. Advocate compassionate leadership; having a workforce that feels valued and cared about is essential for the individual, the team and the people that we care for.
Debra Hazeldine - Patient safety campaigner
"Patient safety campaigner in 2006 after losing my Mum in tragic circumstances in MidStaffs. Many years campaigning for a Public Inquiry into MidStaffs, gave evidence in 2013. Awarded MBE in 2018 for services to patient safety in Staffordshire."
Beryl Mansel
Senior Lecturer, Swansea University. Compassionate leadership and emotional intelligence.
Dr Louise Younie - Clinical Reader in Medical Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL
Creative enquiry for practitioner development and human flourishing in healthcare professional education, humanising healthcare, self-care and compassion for others (patients, students, colleagues).
Kathleen Rafferty
5th Year Medical Student, University of Bristol. Creative arts in Medical education, Creative enquiry, Arts based research, teaching compassion in medical education, sexual and reproductive health.
Hayley Clarkson
Student nurse
Ellie Reynolds - Research Fellow, CAMERA, Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth
Nurse of 20+ years. Ph.D. medical anthropology from UCL. Worked as a Research Associate with Professor Jill Maben on the National Evaluation of Schwartz Rounds. Interests in workforce wellbeing, and medical education.
Dr Alison H. James
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University. Adult Nursing. Researching leadership development in healthcare workforce & impact on delivery and quality of patient care. Narrative inquiry, and visual methodologies such as photographic elicitation.
Dr Elaine Beaumont - Psychotherapist, author, researcher and lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at The University of Salford
Helping people cultivate self-compassion, and receive and give compassion from and to others. Clinical Compassion Focused Therapy impact; Compassionate Mind Training to help professional helpers; Self-Compassion App impact on compassion and wellbeing.
Charlotte Keaveney
Community and district nurse. Registered Nurse working within the community. Passionate about compassion within healthcare, for safer team working and patient care.
Lina Johansson
Clinical Academic Renal Dietitian, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Emma Perry
RMN and PNA - Mental Health Advisor for International Nurse Recruitment. Emma is passionate about supporting healthcare colleagues working within the space of mental health, workforce wellbeing, compassionate leadership and restorative principles.
Sarah Beechey
Third-year Adult Nursing Student. Cardiff University. Mature student. Planning to work in District Nursing. Compassionate leadership. Inclusion. Wellbeing. Social prescribing. Interprofessional working.
Carmela Waterall
Practice Development Nurse, Nottingham University Hospital.
Olwen Wright
GP Partner and Trainer Worcester .Multi-Professional Educator Herefordshire and Worcestershire Training Hub. Interested in teaching on mental health,Green NHS and communication skills. NHS England staff suicide prevention special interest group.
Julie Hicks
Clinical Skills Tutor, Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth. Palliative Care Nurse Specialist, now working in medical education; Clinical Skills Tutor, Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth.
Zari (Esmat) Mousapour
Psychology PhD student. Senior Fellow of Advance HE. Former programme leader at Middlesex University. Overseas educator. Enhancing compassion, care and transcultural competence alongside commitment, courage and context among future workforce.
Dr Collette Straughair
Associate Professor in Nursing at Northumbria University, Collette presented her research at the inaugural conference and has been actively involved in C4CHEd since. Passionate about compassion in nursing and has published on the subject extensively.
Dr Caitlin Delaney - CareFully & IVF Scientist
20+ years’ experience managing and establishing IVF clinics. Enhancing patient experience has always been my passion. After being ‘the patient’ myself when diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I founded CareFully to make compassionate care a core competency.
Mat Daniel
Mat is a Consultant Paediatric Otorhinolaryngologist in Nottingham, and the University of Nottingham ENT Undergraduate Lead. He is also a Coach and a Team Coach.
Clare Killingback
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences & Fellow for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Teaching Excellence Academy.
Trudi Archer
Former Director of Nursing for Unscheduled primary care. Now a senior lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Winchester.