Dr Roslyn Mattukoyya

Roslyn is a passionate registered critical care nurse since 1998. She joined ARU in 2013, with wealth of previous experience in nursing education, research and management. Roslyn has worked in India, Nepal, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the UK in various capacities.

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Background

Roslyn has designed and led both pre-registration and post-registration teaching within ARU's Nursing programmes. Currently, she is leading the Simulation team in the School of Nursing. In this role, she has designed and created simulation models and tools, and collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to provide students with quality education.

Roslyn serves as an external examiner for University of Manchester. She contributes to the assessment process by providing impartial review of the academic work to meet the academic standards.

Roslyn’s research interest has resulted in national and international projects. Roslyn is a core member of ARU's Health and Care Research Centre (HCRC), particularly the Health and Care Workforce Research Group. Roslyn works closely with the Royal College of Nursing and scholars with similar interests, especially in simulation, international students studying, and nurses working in the UK.

Spoken Languages

• Tamil
• Telugu
• Malayalam
• Kannada
• Hindi
• Arabic
• Nepali

Research interests

• Clinical simulation
• International students' experience in host countries
• Internationally-educated nurses' empowerment
• The global majority and their empowerment
• Workforce research
• Patient safety
• Cultural competence among educators

Areas of research supervision

Roslyn will be interested to supervise pre- and post-registration research projects on any of the research interest areas mentioned in the previous section.

Teaching

• Pre- and post-registration Nursing programmes
• Acute Care courses
• Bioscience

Qualifications

• PhD
• PG Cert in Medical and Healthcare Education
• MSc in Public Health
• BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies

Memberships, editorial boards

• Member of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), currently working with Eastern Region RCN members to support internationally-educated nurses.
• Member of the British Indian Nurses Association
• Member of Chief Nursing Officers and Chief Midwifery Officer BME Strategic Advisory Group
• UK-REACH Professional Expert Panel (PEP) Member (to investigate if, how, and why, ethnicity affects COVID-19 clinical outcomes in healthcare workers)
• Member of Maternity and Neonatal Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Workforce Working Group, East of England Task and Finish Group – Addressing inequalities within maternity and neonatal ethnic minority staff.
• Critical friend, advisory group member for University of Huddersfield research project commissioned by NHS England to gain a greater understanding of the experiences of international nurses in their first year of working in the NHS and settling in England.
• External examiner: University of Manchester Bioscience for BNurs (Hons) / Integrated Masters programme.

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Nurses “Speaking Up”: The experience of newly qualified nurses in challenging unsafe practice (funded by HEE and Melvin Shepherd Nurses Fund).
• ‘Structural empowerment’ and ‘speaking up’ against unsafe practice, among overseas trained nurses working in NHS hospitals (funded by ARU).
• IRAN (Internationally Recruited Asian Nurses) research group: Project with specific focus on IRAN career progression in NHS (Funded by Manchester Metropolitan University).

Selected recent publications

Mattukoyya, R., Vinod, L., Manoharan, E. and Manju, P. (2022) 'Cross-border knowledge transfer via collaborative virtual training programme during the Covid crisis', Nurse Education in Practice, 63. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103357

Mattukoyya, R., Vinod, L. Pallam, M. and Manoharan, E. (2021) 'Use of digital video communication platform (Zoom) by British Indian nurses to upskill Indian nurses for managing Covid-19 patients, Being creative in the face of adversity, The #creativeHE Annual, Creativity for Learning in Higher Education Community, #creativeHE. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25416/ntr.17709860.v1

Mansour, M., Darawad, M., Mattukoyya, R., Al-Anati, A., Al-Madani, M. and Jamama, A. (2022) 'Socio-demographic predictors of structural empowerment among newly qualified nurses: Findings from an international survey', Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 17(3), pp. 345-352. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2021.10.010

Mansour, M., Jamama, A., Al-Madani, M., Mattukoyya, R. and Al-Anati, A. (2020) 'Reconciling assertive communication skills with undergraduate nursing education: Qualitative perspectives from British and Saudi newly-graduated nurses', Health Professions Education, 6(2), pp. 176-186.

Mansour, M. and Mattukoyya, R. (2019) 'Development of assertive communication skills in nursing preceptorship programmes: a qualitative insight from newly qualified nurses', Nursing Management, 26(4).

Mansour, M., Jamama, A., Al-Madani, M., Mattukoyya, R. and Al-Anati, A. (2020) 'Reconciling assertive communication skills with undergraduate nursing education: Qualitative perspectives from British and Saudi newly-graduated nurses', Health Professions Education, 6(2), pp. 176-186.

Mansour, M. and Mattukoyya, R. (2018) 'A cross-sectional survey of British newly graduated nurses' experience of organization empowerment and of challenging unsafe practices', The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 49(10), pp. 474-481.

Recent presentations and conferences

February 2025: Selected for Elsevier SciTalks: 'Structural empowerment and speaking up among Overseas Nurses'.

February 2025: 'Impact of Structural Factors on Internationally Educated Nurses in the United Kingdom, National Health Service'. Oral presentation at 44th RCSI conference, Dublin.

October 2024: 'Quantitative findings: Structural empowerment and Speaking up among Overseas Nurses'. Oral presentation at NETNEP2024 conference, Singapore.

June 2024: 'A simulation placement learning (SPL) for pre-registration nursing student to recognise and respond to deteriorating children and young people'. Oral presentation at 16th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies conference, Spain.

October 2023: Speaker at NHS trust 20 years completion celebration for Internationally Educated Nurses event.

April 2023: 'Empowering Internationally Educated Nurses'. Presentation, RCN Congress.

January 2023: Speaker, Patient Safety Conference.

October 2022: Shortlisted to present at the 8th International Nurse Education Conference (NETNEP 2022).

July 2022: Equity and Equality Conference speaker, focus on making improvements and celebrating successes within maternity and neonatal services. Suffolk, sponsored by ARU.

June 2022: RCN Education Awards Finalist (Innovation category).

April 2022: 'Use of digital video communication platform (Zoom) by British Indian nurses to upskill Indian nurses for managing Covid-19 patients, being creative in the face of adversity'. Presentation, RCNi International Nursing Education Conference.

March 2022: Speaker at the RCN virtual event with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (Addenbrooke's).

November 2021: Global Medical Excellence award at the House of Parliament in 2021 by World Tamil Organisation award – Covid Warriors category.

September 2021: Speaker at Queen’s Nursing Institute Webinar held for Internationally Recruited Nurses: Community of Practice.

April 2018: Presented at RCNi International Nursing Research Conference.