In 2014, Rosalynd joined the University of East Anglia as Professor of Nursing Sciences in the newly formed School of Health Sciences and was Head of School from 2016 to 2019.
Rosalynd is an experienced, senior healthcare educationalist and practitioner with significant, strategic, higher education leadership experience with a deep commitment to ensuring high quality learning and professionalism in the healthcare disciplines, both in the UK and internationally. Her ambition is to ensure the best healthcare practice outcomes for patients through high quality, innovative, research informed education which both challenges and engages students to realise their potential
Rosalynd trained as a nurse at the Nightingale School of Nursing, St Thomas’ Hospital, London. After a period of working as a staff nurse and ward sister in surgical wards and accident and emergency department, she subsequently became a Clinical Teacher at St Thomas’ Hospital. In 1983, after a short break in service and time with her young family, she moved to Somerset and worked as a Clinical Teacher and then Senior Tutor in the then Somerset School of Nursing.
As Acting Chief Executive of the College, she led the integration of nurse education in to the University of Plymouth and in 1993 became the Deputy Head of the Institute of Health Studies, University of Plymouth. This was a period of rapid transformation and growth for Health Studies with the opportunity for a variety of leadership opportunities within the Institute and wider University.
In 2003, Rosalynd joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery, at the University of Southampton as the Director of Learning Teaching and Quality. In 2006 she became the Associate Dean Education for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and after a further period of university re structuring, was appointed the Facuty of Health Scinces' Associate Dean of Education from 2009 - 2014.
Previous and Current Experience
Externality and Influence
Education Leadership Consultancy
University of East Anglia, 2013. Designing new NHS focused programmes
University of Cardiff, 2013. Amalgamation of health care disciplines into one single academic School
University of Glamorgan, 2007. Professional Mentorship
University of Glasgow, 2006. Quality Assurance Consultancy
Macmillan Cancer Education. 2003 & 2004. Management & Leadership Consultancy
Kings College, London. 2003. Quality Assurance Consultancy
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