Current Projects - 2024 - 2025

Exploring the experiences of younger nursing students (18-25 year olds) on an online pre-registration nursing programme in Scotland 
Tamsin Smith

Evaluating the student and tutor experience of online skills development workshops 
Mick McCormick and Jo Strang

Developing Mentoring Guidance for Professional Programmes
Jo Bartlett

Implementing change to improve support for students with a mental health difficulty
Joan Simons and Catrin Macaulay

How successful is Credit Transfer in improving access to the Social Work Degree?
Anna Elliott

Web-based simulation for Undergraduate Student Nurses - a pilot study
Jane Cook

Previous Projects

2023 - 2024

Exploring the impact of using Enquiry Based Learning on the experience of nursing students within the four field of practice
Nicola Goodall

Student retention and the affective impact of distance learning 
Joan Simons and Linda Plowright-Pepper

2022 - 2023

Student perspectives of Associate Lecturer support for students with a mental health difficulty. 
Joan Simons

Practice Tutors’ views on their readiness for supporting OU pre-registration nursing students who require reasonable adjustments for clinical placement.
Liz King

2021 - 2022

Developing the OU nursing associate curriculum to develop professional identity, student success, safe and effective practitioners, and support career progression 
Gemma Ryan-Blackwell

A student mental health confidence framework for Associate Lecturers  
Joan Simons

Improving feedback for EMA resubmissions
Erica Borgstrom

Are Practice Tutors (PTs) equipped with the knowledge and skills to give constructive and developmental feedback following a Practice Assessment Interview
Karen Storey

How online tutorials enhance students’ critical thinking skills?
Polly Lee

The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health, resilience, well-being, and supported learning experiences of current students and recent graduates of OU nursing and social work programmes
Naomi Watson

WELS ADVOCATE: Apprentices Disadvantaged Voices Openly Consulted and AdvocaTEd  
Anne Adams

2020 - 2021

A mixed methods study exploring HWSC student experience of online tuition.  
Sharon Mallon

Confidence and Understanding activities on the 'Introducing Social Care' Module' (K102)
Lucy Rai

An evaluation of the use of Open Studio adapted for a first level foundation module to encourage multi-modal learning and peer interaction
Lucy Rai

Developing ‘good’ support for student carers: a cross university study
Chris Kubiak

Feedback on Exam Marked Assignments (EMA) Fails for Resubmission
Erica Borgstrom

Simulation: informing and enhancing curriculum in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care (HWSC)
Wendy Turner

An exploration of the knowledge and skills of WELS associate lecturers in relation to supporting students with a mental health difficulty 
Joan Simons

Student nurses, nursing curriculums, and emergency healthcare responses to COVID-19: a scoping review
Elizabeth Tilley and Naomi Watson

How do we talk about race, and mental health?
John Butcher

2019 - 2020

Babies and books: experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood while learning at a distance
Sam Murphy, Sally Ogut and Sharon Mallon

2018 - 2019

Caring about student carers
Mary Larkin

Wellbeing of Level 3 Health Wellbeing and Social Care (HSWC) students: the importance of work, family and motivational factors
Phillipa Waterhouse

A case study on the use computer simulation to foster interprofessional learning and development among online and distance education students
Sharif Haider

Peer mentorship: student perceptions and needs
Chris Kubiak

An evaluation of the Three Gains Employability model
Joan Simons