Our people

Dr Josephine NwaAmaka Bardi is an International Mental Health Campaigner. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Student Engagement Lead. She is Associate Dean, Education and Student Experience at the London South Bank University, Institute of Health and Social Care.

For her PhD, Carmel Bond explored compassion in mental health nursing from a critical perspective. She went on from her PhD to take up an academic post at Sheffield Hallam University as a lecturer in Mental Health Nursing

Lisa Common completed her PhD examining ways of bringing safe and effective models of care for home birth into the NHS. She has gone on to receive post-doctoral funding from the ESRC and works as a Consultant Midwife 

Adele Cresswell’s PhD examined changing models of commissioning and organisation within primary care. She has held senior leadership positions in regional healthcare organisations before and after her PhD and is currently the Chief Operating Officer at the Nottingham GP Alliance.

Ellie is now a Clinical Lead at Nottingham University Hospitals. Her PhD explored the co-production of care for chronic edema. The PhD considered how individuals, with long-term conditions, make complex decisions regarding their care and treatment, when living within areas considered most socially deprived.

Gordon Dugle completed his PhD on the topic of cross-sector partnerships in the delivery of child and maternal healthcare services in Ghana, and is now an academic in management and organisation studies at the School of Business in SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies 

Emily’s PhD examined issues of quality and safety in care homes. She is now Associate Director of Learning, Culture and Organisational Development at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Kate Kirk completed her PhD with CHILL in 2019 and remains an Associate member of Nottingham University Business School. She has worked as a Research Fellow and is now based in the Sapphire research group at the University of Leicester. She has secured NIHR funding to pursue her clinical-academic aspirations and still works clinically as a nurse in the emergency department setting.

Annabelle Long’s PhD focused on exercise classes for people living with dementia in community settings, and she currently works as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham in the Centre for Rehabilitation and Ageing Research

Rebecca’s PhD focused on system changes in the organisation of healthcare. She leads ROC Research Consultancy providing evaluation and insight across the East Midlands.

Charlotte Overton’s PhD (supported by The Health Foundation Studentship) used an ethnographic approach to explore the implementation of a sepsis screening tool and care bundle. Charlotte has worked across various applied health research projects and roles within CHILL, East Midlands Patient Safety Collaboration, as a Clinical Academic at Nottingham University Hospitals and with the SAPPHIRE research group, University of Leicester. She is currently a Research Fellow working within the Safer Systems, Cultures and Practices theme of the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (YH PSRC) with Professor Carl Macrae. Charlotte is also a practicing nurse.

Jude's PhD explored how complex, professionally dominated organisations successfully implement quality and safety initiatives. Using ethnography, Jude explored the surgical pathway of two NHS hospitals where care bundles for preventing surgical site infections are used and implemented. She used boundary object theory as an analytical framework which uncovered facilitators and barriers to the use of these care bundles. Implications to practice have been put forward in the hope to shape and improve the use and implementation of surgical site infection prevention initiatives. Jude utilises her research skills on a daily basis in her role as a senior infection prevention and control nurse specialist within  the UK health Security Agency.

Dr Zoey Spendlove is Associate Professor of Midwifery within the School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. Zoey is Director of Postgraduate Taught Education and Continuing Professional Development within the School. Zoey is also Deputy Lead for Fitness to Practise and Fitness to Study.

Joy Spiliopoulos has held a long-term affiliation with CHILL and has previously worked at the University of Nottingham’s Ningbo Chila campus. Her work covers sociological perspectives of work in healthcare, and she has previously focused on international migration of nurses. She currently works at the SAPPHIRE research group at the University of Leicester

Rachael Tucker’s PhD focused on the changing nature of professional work under conditions of financial austerity, particularly focusing n Physiotherapy. She has gone on to work in academic publishing