Staff Profiles: Dr. Liz Berragan

Biography

I have over 30 years experience including critical care nursing, military nursing and healthcare education working with the NHS, MoD, independent and voluntary healthcare sectors and higher education. Educational achievements include undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees in nursing and education. I am a Churchill Fellow and was awarded my fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to study patient safety and inter-professional education in healthcare curricula and the impact upon care delivery.

Qualifications

Awards

Research Fellowship National Institute for Nursing, Centre for Practice Development and Research, Oxford.

Churchill Fellow 2016

University Teaching Fellow

Membership of professional bodies

Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration

Royal College of Nursing: Research Society and Education forum member

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching and research

Teaching

My learning and teaching focus includes: Service Evaluation and Quality Improvement; Advanced Professional Practice; Simulation based education; Appreciating evidence for practice; Inter-professional learning and patient safety.

Level

Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Research

My primary research focus centres around simulation based education (SBE) and understanding how SBE within healthcare education impacts upon the delivery of safe and effective patient care. I am interested in pedagogical approaches to research and in particular the experience of learning and working for health and social care students. I use and teach qualitative research approaches which informs my postgraduate research supervision and examination.

Publications

External responsibilities

Nurse Education in Practice; International Scientific Review Committee and theme chair NETNEP 2018, Editorial board. 

Reviewer for Nurse Education Today; Nurse Education in Practice; Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, Health and Social Care Education; Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Advances in Simulation. 

Sigma Theta Tau International: Phi Mu Chapter

Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare 

Executive Committee:  Health Education England South West Simulation Network.

Bank nurse - maintaining clinical competence and credibility.

Public Governor Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

External examining

I have been an external examiner for the last 15 years and my current tenure is with  Cardiff University for their undergraduate nursing programmes.

I am a doctoral supervisor and examiner (UK, Finland, Australia)