Administration Team - The Board

Jennifer is currently the course leader for SCPHN programmes at Oxford Brookes University (PG Dip Health Visiting and School Nursing) and Principal Lecturer for the Student Experience.

Jennifer.kirman@brookes.ac.uk

Jennifer qualified as an adult nurse in 2001, working primarily in women's health until moving into the field of midwifery. Having worked in Yorkshire as a midwife she moved into a career in health visiting in West Yorkshire and outer West London; her last role within the  NHS was as the Breastfeeding Lead and public health project lead for Community Health Provider Services in Hillingdon (West London). In 2012 Jennifer commenced work in a community public health team as a senior lecturer at Bucks New University until taking the post as course lead for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) (HV and school nurse), District Nursing and Community Children's Nursing in February 2014 at Oxford Brookes University.

Sheryl is currently a full-time lecturer on the BSc (HONS) Adult Nursing at the University of Bolton. Registered Nurse (Adult), Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) BSc with first-class honours.

S.Halliday@bolton.ac.uk

Sheryl's clinical background of Adult Critical Care (ICU and HDU), Health Visiting and Practice Nursing. Passionate about Public Health and the future of nursing.

Felicity is a Senior Lecturer in Integrated Care (Population Health), Director of Studies for Specialist Practice

felicity.jones@surrey.ac.uk

Felicity is a Registered General Nurse, SCPHN Health Visitor, Community Nurse Prescriber, PGCert in Learning and Teaching for Professional practice lecturer in Integrated Care (Population Health). 

Felicity has worked full-time as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey since August 2012. She has a background in adult nursing and midwifery, qualifying as a Health Visitor in 1998. Felicity's health visiting experience has included working as a health visitor (GP attached and corporate team), a liaison health visitor for a Walk-in Centre and a practice development health visitor. 

As a Practice Development Facilitator, Feclity has worked both at a local and strategic level to develop practices for health visiting and school nursing services. Her role included setting up training programmes, developing guidelines, conducting service audits, and promoting service innovation.

Marjory is the module lead for Managing Professional Perspectives in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN): Occupational Health (OH) pathway at Brunel University. 

Marjory.Fish@brunel.ac.uk

Marjory has worked as a Lecturer at Brunel University London since September 2017 as the Module Lead for the field of SCPHN Occupational Health (OH). She has a background in adult nursing (1993, St Thomas’s London) and a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Hygiene and Safety, (1996 Southbank University, London).

Marjory has skills, knowledge and experience in general nursing; OH; occupational hygiene and health and safety; and auditing; in Retail and Distribution industries, London Underground, Oil refining (BP Oil), and Higher Education lecturing. With this experience,  Marjory wanted to share her work experience and passion for work and health. She gained a SCPHN PGDip in OH in 2015, and MSc in 2017, both at Brunel University. To be effective in the academic role Marjory attained a Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) in 2020 becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA).

Evidence shows that being employed reduces health inequalities and hence, a person’s health and wellbeing are improved, although work must be good, taking into consideration functionality. Brunel past and present OHN students are employed in mid to senior management roles in clinical and non-clinical roles; in almost all industry sectors including the NHS, Rail, Motor Industry, Oil and Gas, Emergency Fire and Rescue, Police Forces and manufacturing industries amongst others. 

Marjory gained some knowledge on invoicing through previous strategic roles and much earlier bookkeeping and typing course.

Amanda is the Deputy Head of School, Community Nursing in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care (School of Midwifery and Community Health)

amanda.wagg@aru.ac.uk

Amanda qualified as a nurse in 2003, with a BSc honours in Adult nursing, and worked in the acute medical sector, in renal care for a few years. She moved to pursue a career in community nursing in 2005, working in a district nursing community team, before pursuing a career as a health visitor in 2009.

Amanda worked as a health visitor and various roles within the health visiting service, including infant feeding lead and health visitor implementation plan lead practitioner, before joining ARU in 2017. Amanda was lead for the UNICEF baby friendly accreditation across Norfolk, achieving full accreditation for the service. This is where her interest for infant feeding grew from. Amanda accelerated her interest by becoming an International Board-certified Lactation Consultant in 2014, and founded a registered charity aimed at supporting lactation in 2017, that continues to support women today.

Amanda’s area of expertise is community nursing, working within a district nursing team and in various leadership roles across the health visiting service since 2005, earning the accolade ‘Queens Nurse’.

Wan is the Programme Leader/Senior Lecturer Specialist in Community Public Health Nursing in the Department of Health and Social Sciences

Dawn2.Odd@uwe.ac.uk

Dawn's areas of expertise are health inequalities, inclusion, Working with Seldom Heard communities, child and family health, and non-medical prescribing.