Current Research Activities

  • General Practice in Primary Care

  • Nursing caring attributes

  • Simulation-based learning and decision making

  • The Professionalisation of Nursing

  • Interprofessional Education

  • Interprofessional Learning Experiences of Healthcare Professionals in Asynchronous Computer Mediated Conferencing.

  • Use of critical discourse thories as research methodologies and methods

Past Research Activities

  • Blackboard - An Administrative Tool or More?

  • Leadership Behaviours: Effects on Job Satisfaction, Productivity and Organisational Commitment

  • Leadership Behaviours and Healthcare Issues

  • Healthcare Organisational Issues and Evidence Based Health and Social Care Practices

  • Job Satisfaction of Educators in Young Children Education

  • Nurses' attitudes towards health promotion in Coronary Care units

 Accolades, Awards, Prizes

  • 2024: Health Equity Fellow 2024, Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, United Kingdom.

  • 2024: Nurse Leader of the Year 2024 (Finalist), Nursing Times United Kingdom.

  • 2024: First Class Education Achievement Award 2024, (Jiangsu Province) Yangzhou University, China.

  • 2022: Queen’s Nurse 2022 - The Queen’s Nurse Institute, United Kingdom.

  • 2022: Nurse of the Year 2022 (Finalist), Nursing Times, United Kingdom.

  • 2022: Clinical Improvement: Public Health and Prevention (Finalist), General Practice Award, United Kingdom

  • 2013: Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy 2013 - Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom.

  • 2012 International Scholarship Scheme 2012 - The Higher Education Academy

  • 2008 Best Poster - 'My Ph...Journey...D' - PhD Seminar Nov 2008, University of Hull, England

Research Fundings

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2015 Innovations in Student Learning Scheme - awarded £5, 700.00 on one-year project entitled: Caring Behaviours: Effects of blended approach using high fidelity simulation learning and podcasting. [Dr Jennifer Loke (PI); Dr Carol Purcell; Dr Clare Whitfield; Emma Bush]

Professor Sir Ron Cooke International Scholarship Scheme 2012/13 – awarded £15,000.00 on a 4-month project entitled: evaluating Singapore nurse education for possible application in the UK. [Dr Jennifer Loke (PI)].

Research Capability 2005 (£8,900) -  Interprofessional Learning Experiences of Healthcare Professionals in Asynchronous Computer Mediated Conferencing