Helen Stanley

Assistant Head of School

contact:
Nursing and Midwifery
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644072

Email: H.F.Stanley@brighton.ac.uk

Teaching

• Education
• Research
• Work-based learning
• Continuing professional education

Research interests

• Work-based learning and the impact on nursing practice
• Changing landscape of continuing professional education
• Practice development and education
• Action learning
• Portfolios and reflection

Current projects

• Strategic development of courses and modules to meet the changing health agendas, both locally, nationally and internationally
• Developing work-based learning modules to meet local needs
• Personal Advice Unit

Profile

Helen is an experienced Principal Lecturer who has been teaching mainly in the field of continuing professional education since 1986. Her clinical background was in General and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care, Accident and Emergency and Surgical Nursing and she has worked in London and locally in Brighton and Worthing.

She has held a number of roles as Course Leader in undergraduate and postgraduate post-registration nurse education, an has interests in work-based learning, accreditation of prior and experiential learning (APEL), inter-professional education and practice development.

Helen's role entails working with staff at all levels from NHS partner trusts, the independent and voluntary sector, universities, and professional organizations such the Royal College of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Council and Higher Education Academy.

Recent publications

Stanley, H.F. and Ramage, C. (2004) Chapter 12. Reflective Practice in Teacher Preparation. Occasional Paper No.4. The Development of Critical Reflection in the Health Professions LTSN, Higher Education Academy, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre, London

Stanley, H.F. (2003) The journey to becoming a graduate nurse: a study of the lived experience of part-time post-registration students Nurse Education in Practice 6: 62-71.

RCN Practice Education Forum 'Guidelines for Practice Facilitation' 2002, RCN, London

Conference papers

July 2006 - Value-added Work-based Learning for Continuing Professional Development- but does it make a difference? Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Brighton, Sussex

October 2004 - Future Role of the Mentor RCN Practice Education Forum, RCN H.Q., London.

May 2004 - The journey to becoming a graduate nurse: a phenomenological study of being a student on a part-time modular degree course. Graduate Programme in Health and Social Sciences Inaugural Conference, University of Brighton.

May 2004 - Reflective practice in teacher preparation. Higher Education Academy, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Area, King's College, London.

November 2003 - An evaluation of the use of Problem-based Learning in a Course Design and Planning Module with a PGCE for health professionals. Imaginative Curriculum Conference on Enquiry-based Learning, University of Surrey

February 2001 - Using portfolios and action learning sets to enable novice teachers to realise their potential. RCN Education Forums Conference: Partners in Practice, Eastbourne.

July 2000 - The journey to becoming a graduate nurse: a phenomenological study of being a student on a part-time modular degree course. 'The University and the Professions' 5th Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Brighton.

April 2000 - The journey to becoming a graduate nurse: a phenomenological study of being a student on a part-time modular degree course INaM Research Conference, University of Brighton.

Publications from the institutional repository