Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing

I have worked within the health care sector for over 40 years and have dual qualification: Registered Nurse and District Nursing (Cert). My career has been interesting and varied and over the years I have worked within a number of specialist areas; including orthopaedics, respiratory care, community nursing, health screening and care of the older person.

For seven years I worked as a senior research nurse at: University College London (Ethnicity and diabetes related lower limb amputation); Imperial College London (Arterial compliance); Cambridge University (Genetics of juvenile diabetes).

Other References

• LinkedIn profile

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse / NMC recorded lecturer
• District Nursing (Cert)
• MSc Research & Evaluation
• BA Psychology
• Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE)

Teaching Role

• I teach on both pre and post–registration nursing courses at Degree and Masters level.
• I am part of the teaching team of the MSc Adult Nursing with Registration course and co-ordinate the dissertation unit.
• I have taught on a Masters in Public Health via both a face-to-face and online mode of learning.

Research Interests

• Education
• Diabetes
• Resilience / Emotional Intelligence / Reflection

Research Projects

• Introducing a Service Improvement Initiative (National Health Service Institute for Innovation and Improvement – NHSI) into the pre-registration nursing curriculum (2009)
• Learning how to care: a pilot project to enhance emotion management skills in nursing (2008)
• Teaching Research Online to Students Studying a Masters in Public Health (2008)

Service to the Academic/Professional Community

• External Examiner : Leeds University
• Journal reviewer for Nurse Education Today / Book Reviewer
• External Validation Panel Member (University of Plymouth/ University of Sussex/ Open University)
• Curriculum Development Group

Conference Presentations

• Research and evaluation: a framework for learning, teaching and assessment across courses for healthcare students Accepted for Outcomes and Impacts Conference  University of Bedfordshire July 2011
• Enhancing reflective practice, resilience and wellbeing in the caring professions, University of Brighton, 2011
• Developing, enhancing and sustaining research skills in a diverse population of students undertaking a Masters in Public Health: an action research study, E-Leader Conference: Vietnam, 2011
• Employing Action Research to explore the challenges of developing research skills in Masters level students, Bridging the Gaps Conference: University of Bedfordshire, 2010
• Enhancing reflective practice, resilience and wellbeing in the caring professions, 16^th International Reflective Practice Conference: University of Bedfordshire, 2010
• Identifying the Challenges of Developing Research Skills in e-learners: an Action Research Study of Masters level Public Health Students in the UK, E-Leader Conference: Singapore, 2010
• Making Research Count via an Online Environment – An Action Research Study, 5th Education in a Changing Environment Conference Critical Voices, Critical Times: University of Salford, 2010
• Emotional labour in nursing & midwifery students – an undervalued skill?  Nurse Education Tomorrow (NET) Conference: Fitzwilliam College University of Cambridge, 2009
• Developing Academic Practice using Turnitin, 3^rd International Plagiarism Conference  Transforming practice for an authentic future: Northumberland University Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2008
• Engaging, educating and developing students understanding of Plagiarism, 3^rd International Plagiarism Conference. Transforming practice for an authentic future: Northumberland University Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2008
• Research informed teaching in an online environment,  Advancing Change Conference; University of Bedfordshire, 2008
• Wikis for beginners, Embracing e-Learning Conference: University of Bedfordshire, 2007

Publications

• Kinman, G. & Leggetter, S. (2017). The cost of kindness? Emotional labour, empathy and wellbeing in nursing. Healthcare. Special edition: Occupational Health Issues in the New Millennium. 4(4), 89
• Kinman, G. & Leggetter, S.  (2016)   Emotional Labour and well-being: what protects nurses?   Healthcare http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare4040089
• Clements A.J, Kinman G, Leggetter S, Teoh K, & Guppy A. (2015) Exploring commitment, professional identity and support for student nurses.  Nurse Education in Practice; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2015.06.001
• Leggetter, S & Sapsed, S (2011) Developing, enhancing and sustaining research skills in a diverse population of students undertaking a Masters in Public Health: an action research study. Refereed Program of the E-Leader Conference at Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, USA  available at: www.g-casa.com/conferences/vietnam/paper/Leggetter.pdf
• Leggetter, S & Sapsed, S (2010) Identifying the Challenges of Developing Research Skills in e-learners: an Action Research Study of Masters level Public Health Students in the UK. Singapore, Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference at Singapore Management University ISSN 1935-4800 Chinese American Scholars Association, New York,  January
• Sapsed, S. & Leggetter, S. (2010) 'Reflecting on the creation of on-line Distance Learning teaching & learning materials' Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference at Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary ISSN 1935-4819 Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, New York, USA, June.
• Sapsed, S. & Leggetter, S (2009) Evaluating communication with our E-Learners on the Public Health Masters course: University of Bedfordshire Refereed Program of the E-Leader Conference at Tallinn, Estonia  Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference at the University of Economics January
• Sapsed, S, Leggetter, S & Pike, D. (2008) Developing a Distance Learning Program for the Public Health Masters - University of Bedfordshire. Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference Krakow. Poland, Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, USA January
• Strain WD, Chaturvedi N, Leggetter SY, Nihoyannopoulos P, Rajkumar C, Bulpitt CJ, Shore AC. (2005) Ethnic differences in skin microvascular function and their relation to cardiac target-organ damage. Journal of Hypertension 23(1):133-40.
• Chaturvedi N, Bulpitt CJ, Leggetter SY, Schiff R, Nihoyannopoulos P, Strain WD, Shore AC, Rajkumar C (2004) Ethnic differences in vascular stiffness and relations to hypertensive target organ damage. Journal of Hypertension  22(9): 1731-1737
• Leggetter SY, Chaturvedi N, Fuller JH, Edmonds ME.  (2002) Ethnicity & Risk of Diabetes Related Lower Extremity Amputation; A Population Based Case-Control Study of African Caribbeans & Europeans in the UK. Archives of Internal Medicine 162: 73-78
• Chaturvedi N, Abbott CA, Whalley A, Widdows P, Leggetter SY, Boulton AMJ.  (2002) Risk of diabetes-related amputation in South Asians versus Europeans in the UK. Diabetic Medicine 19: 99-104

Book Chapters

• Leggetter, S & Sapsed, S (2010) Identifying and addressing the challenges of facilitating the development of key research skills in Master's level public health students with a diverse range of educational and ethnic backgrounds In Atlay, M. and Coughlin, A. (Ed.) Creating Communities: developing, enhancing and sustaining learning communities across the University of Bedfordshire (pp174-184) University of Bedfordshire Internal Publication

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743824 (internal extension 3824)
E: sandra.leggetter@beds.ac.uk