Veřejný profil Susan Sapsed

My RN was gained at Addenbrookes, Cambridge; RM at St Mary's Portsmouth, ADM and MTD/PGCE with Royal College of Midwives and the University of Surrey.  I started teaching in 1976 and my degree with the OU, and from 1994 with the University of Bedfordshire. Finished MPhil in October 2003 ‘Exploring how nurses and midwives gain their research skills’.

As a Graduate member of the BPS, this qualification has been used with distance learning students at London South Bank University for 14 years.

I have 6 link wards at the Luton and Dunstable NHS Hospital Trust.

I have been teaching on the Public Heath Masters since 2005, and have overseen its progress and adoption of a distance learning mode.

My areas of interest Public Health, Health Promotion, Ethics, Gynaecology, Professional Development (all aspects) and Midwifery.

Teaching Interests:

Public Health, Health Promotion, Gynaecology, Professional Development (all aspects) and Midwifery

As a UK trained midwife and a nurse my teaching is within Midwifery and Nurse Education, and Public Health Masters. My clinical practice areas are Midwifery and Gynaecology.

Professional Institutions and Committees:

Present

• 1990      Graduate Membership of the British Psychology Society
• 2000      Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• 2002      Honouree Member of Foresight
• 2002      President East Hertfordshire RCM Branch
• 2005      East of England RCN Research network
• 2007      Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
• 2010      Associate member of the faculty of Public Health

External to University Activities

2009 continued - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Reader Panel coordinator Eleanor Reilly

1992 – 2009 South Bank University Teacher for the unit "Psychology in Practice", ‘Health Promotion’, ‘Integrated study’ for the Diploma/BSc Midwifery and personal tutor to eight students.

2001 - 2006 External examiner to the professional programme at Plymouth University.

1998 - 2001 External examiner to the midwifery programme at Manchester University.

1991 - 1998 Queen Charlotte's College of Health and Science then Thames Valley University, Wolfson School of Health Science.

1980 – 1991 acted as External Examiner, London and Manchester

1980 – Appointed External Examiner by the CMB and then ENB. now the NMC.

My family background is Farming, so have an extensive family circle, although in my immediate family I have a younger sister and brother.