The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Jane's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Jane
I am a Lecturer in Public Health Nursing at the Faculty of Health at the University of Plymouth and the programme lead for the MSc Pre-Registration in Nursing (all fields). I trained as a Registered Nursing in the late eighties in Bristol, going on to work at the Bristol Hospital for Sick Children in oncology. From there, I moved to Taunton to study midwifery, becoming a Registered Midwife in 1994. I worked as a midwife in acute and community settings, later training as a Health Visitor and completing a degree in Public Health Nursing. I have worked in various community settings as a Health Visitor, returning to work as a midwife with Sure Start to coordinate care for young parents. Both my MSc and PhD drew upon my practice life of working with mothers with young children, focusing on giving voice to their experiences.
I have over 18 years of experience in education; over that time, I have had the experience of working as a Placement Development Lead, leading a post-registration MSc, and as a past member of the School Athena Swan committee. I teach public health/health promotion and research methodology and supervise postgraduate students undertaking practice development projects, dissertations and systematic reviews. I am a qualitative researcher specialising in narrative, ethnographic and longitudinal methodologies. My work has focused on maternal, family and child health; I am currently working on a cross-faculty research project between the Arts and Health that focuses on the self-documentation of play by parents of infants within child/parent groups.
Teaching
MSc Pre-Registration Programme Lead
Module Lead NRS711 'Nursing Care in Context'
Public health
Health promotion
Practice development
Research methods
I supervise Master level projects and dissertations
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