Marion Waite
Principal Lecturer
Principal Lecturer Student Experience
After a career in the NHS as a nurse, midwife and health visitor Marion joined Higher Education in 2002 to follow her interest in professional education.Since then Marion has developed her role as a teacher , staff developer and nurse and pedagogic researcher with a specialist focus on improving patient outcomes, student learning, and the student experience. Marion also collaborates with colleagues both from the Faculty of Technology, Design, and Engineering and other institutions, patient groups and clinicians nationally and internationally on projects that aim to empower patients with long-term conditions by the development and use of health care technologies. This includes a successful EU Horizon 2020 research bid "Patient Empowerment through Predictive Personalised Decision Support" (PEPPER) http://www.pepper.eu.com/
Marion has designed, implemented, co-facilitated and evaluated a range of courses for qualified nurses, allied health professionals, and educational practitioners by collaborating with both learners and colleagues locally, nationally and internationally This includes one of the first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to be delivered in the UK, #FSLT12 http://openbrookes.net/firststeps12/
Marion engages learners to adopt a variety of roles to transform their continuing professional development and has developed a...