Dr Helen Aveyard

Helen Aveyard is a Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, in the subject of Adult Nursing where she is involved in the teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Prior to this she held a research scholarship in Health Care Ethics at King's College University of London where she undertook a doctoral study examining the ways in which informed consent is addressed by nurses prior to nursing care procedures.

Helen is a registered nurse and has had several years clinical experience caring for people with HIV/AIDS. She has presented and published widely on nursing ethics and health care research, including a series of books; ‘Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care’ (now in its 5th Edition which was nominated for a British Medical Associated award in 2015), ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Evidence Based Practice’ (3rd Edition) with Pam Sharp and ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing’ with Marion Waite which was nominated for a British Medical Association Award in 2012. A postgraduate text ‘A post-graduate’s guide to doing a literature review’ now in it's 2nd edition with co-authors Sheila Payne and Nancy Preston. A further textbook with Nancy Preston and Morag 'How to read and critique research’ was published in 2021. She has also co-authored the 3rd edition of an established textbook 'Nursing Research' with Pam Moule and Margaret Goodman which was also published in 2016.

Teaching/Research interests

• The application of /understanding of evidence based practice at novice /beginner level
• Informed consent prior to nursing care procedures
• The generalisability and diversity of qualitative research methods
• Methods for doing a literature review at different levels of study