Dr Knowles is a registered nurse in adult nursing and an experienced NHS nurse manager with nurse researcher expertise. She is also an experienced higher education institution nurse educator.
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Judie trained at London’s Romford School of Nursing, qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1990. She gained staffing experience in general medicine at Rush Green Hospital. She then led projects to start pre-admission services for Barking, Havering & Brentwood Health Authority, subsequently working as a Specialist Nurse.
Judie joined Havering Hospitals as a Nurse Manager before leading practice development projects pan Barking, Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust. She also project managed multi-professional research studies as the study centre co-ordinator and Senior Research Nurse.
She then became a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, moving to Anglia Ruskin University in 2011. Judie also completed her doctoral degree at the Department of Education, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University in 2017.
Judie educates students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Her pedagogical approaches include an evolving understanding that the individual learner’s social, economic and political experiences shape their values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviours, identity and thinking. She’s interested in how her teaching can better fit students’ learning needs for their academic success.
Knowles, J., 2017. Equality and diversity in clinical placements: Experiences of pre-registration student nurses with dyslexia (London: The British Library).
Shaw, S., Knowles, J., 2014. ENGAGE 15th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference; Learning and Teaching Project Reports. Networks, 18 (Chelmsford: Anglia Ruskin University).
Knowles, J. M., Gray, M. G., 2011. The experience of critiquing published research: Learning from the student and researcher perspective. Nurse Education in Practice. 11(6), pp. 390-394. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2011.03.019
Knowles, J., 2010. Establishing a sustainable nursing workforce. Nursing Management, 17(4), pp. 34-36.
Knowles, J., 2010. The Pulse of Beds 2 & 3. In: Terry, L. M. (Ed.), 2010. Because we care: Poetry and values of health and social care (Rayleigh, NC: Lulu), pp. 11.
Shaw, S., Knowles, J., 2014. An evaluation of videos to teach clinical skills to pre-registration student nurses. Presentation, ENGAGE 15th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Knowles, J., Whittaker, E., 2013. Pre-defibrillation basic life support VodCast (Chelmsford: Anglia Ruskin University).