Visiting Academics

Professor Christine Brown Wilson is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. Christine is a Registered Nurse with an international research profile in Ageing and Dementia focusing on translating research into practice. Christine is the Director of Internationalisation promoting education and research partnerships for Queen's University, School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Christine is also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and provides leadership to the School and University in promoting Educational Scholarship.

Dr Ahmed Al-Smadi is Associate Professor in Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, Al al-Bayt University Jordan.
Dr Al-Smadi is based in Jordan and will be working with Professor Kevin Gormley in MBRU (Mohammed Bin Rashid University).

Dr Lei Clifton is Senior Medical Statistician in the Translational Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford.
During her visit to our School in June 2019 Dr Clifton hosted a talk to a number of Lecturers and PhD students on the topic ‘How to design a feasibility randomised controlled trial – the experience of a medical statistician’.

Professor Kathryn King-Shier is a member of the Faculty of Nursing and Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Canada.
During her visit to Queen’s University (April 2018) she sought to extend research collaborations with Dr Chantal Ski and Professor David Thompson in cardiovascular health with a focus on gender and ethnicity.

Dr Fiona Lynn is a visiting scholar at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.

Dr Helen Kerr was visiting scholar at The University of British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada in May 2017.
The purpose of the visit was to inform the development of guidelines relating to the transition from children’s to adult services for children with life limiting conditions.

Dr Mark Linden was visiting scholar at the Centre for Brain Injury Research & Training, University of Oregon, USA in 2016.
This work involved consultation with Prof Ann Glang and her team at the Centre for Brain Injury Research & Training on outcome measurement for a newly developed classroom-based intervention.

Dr Esther Reid has been closely involved with charity working and teaching between midwifery students at QUB and those at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She has sought to establish collaborative working arrangements with the Dean of Health Sciences: Dr Rose Nabirye and Lecturer: Dr Scovia Mbalinde