South West Clinical School in Cornwall
Linking research with practice to improve patient outcomes across Cornwall
Our main objectives:
- Deliver high-quality research which supports the needs of the population and workforce in the South West and beyond.
- Develop the capacity and capability for research within the workforce to enable evidence-based practice and inform quality improvement activity.
- Support the leaders of health and social care professionals to develop their research workforce.
- Embed a clear clinical academic career path to assist the transition from undergraduate student to senior research leadership roles.
- Influence regional, national, and international decision-making within this arena, resulting in demonstrable impact.
The South West Clinical School in Cornwall is a partnership between the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust and the University of Plymouth. It exists to promote evidence-based practice, to develop clinically-focused non-medical research programmes that enhances patient care and to grow and nurture clinical academic pathway opportunities and careers.
Clinical School Leadership Team
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![Professor Jill Shawe Professor of Maternal and Family Health]( "Professor Jill Shawe")
Professor Jill Shawe
Professor of Maternal and Family Health
Co-Director of the South West Clinical School in Cornwall.
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![Dr Frazer Underwood Honorary Associate Clinical Professor]( "Dr Frazer Underwood")
Dr Frazer Underwood
Honorary Associate Clinical Professor
Co-Director of the South West Clinical School in Cornwall.
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![Dr Lisa Burrows Associate Lecturer]( "Dr Lisa Burrows")
Dr Lisa Burrows
Associate Lecturer
Clinical Academic and South West Clinical School in Cornwall Service Manager.
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![Mrs Helen Lyndon Honorary Clinical Research Fellow]( "Mrs Helen Lyndon")
Mrs Helen Lyndon
Honorary Clinical Research Fellow
Research community
Engagement activities and opportunities
- #400Word writing competition – quarterly prizes awarded for 400 word submission illustrating the translation of evidence-based practice (contact the Clinical School for submission guidelines)
- Virtual drop-in sessions – designed for non-medical staff to meet the Clinical School team to seek advice and support with clinical academic opportunities.
- Research idea support – use the online form to submit a research idea and it will be reviewed by the research and development team. You will be contacted by the Clinical School team to explore your idea further.
- Joanna Briggs Institute resources and opportunities – the Clinical School is a Clinical Partner of the Univesity’s Collaborating Centre, and as such have a wide range of resources available to staff to access evidence and tools to support implementation of evidence into practice.
- Virtual writing café – the Clinical School offers bespoke support staff developing academic assignments for publication or to progress #400Word submissions.
- Seminars and workshops – planned and bespoke opportunities throughout the year (contact the Clinical School of more details).
- Virtual journal clubs – committed to the development of clinically and academically accredited wards and departments, establishing specialty multidisciplinary journal clubs is a great first step. In partnership with the Cornwall Health Library team, these are facilitated to start with to get them up and running.
- Prizes and awards – prizes such as the annual travel scholarship, JBI Comprehensive Systemic Review Training prizes and small project scholarships.
All prizes are generously supported by the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust Charitable Fund. For more information on these prizes, please visit their website for more information.
Clinical School Local News
Cornwall’s Digital Webinar Series
Over the autumn of 2024 the South West Clinical School in Cornwall, in collaboration with the University’s Centre for Health Technology hosted a series of webinar that signalled the start of their work to progress the delivery of their nursing, midwifery and allied health professions research strategy theme: delivering digitally enabled research. They aimed to showcase past and current research work in the many fields of digital healthcare.
Cornwall Clinical School asked to lead delivery for their local NMAHP Research Strategy
This multi-professional research strategy sets out across five themes context and ambition to inspire, support and develop staff from its acute, community, and specialist services.
South West Clinical School Journal, an ever evolving story | 3 July 2023
The South West Clinical School Journal is published quarterly, the Journal shares the work of regional colleagues with a wider national and international audience.
Clinical Partnership status awarded to Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust with the University of Plymouth's JBI Centre of Excellence
This acknowledges the work clinical colleagues, affiliated to the Clinical School, have undertaken in systematic review activities, and their commitment to sharing new knowledge and promoting evidence based practice activities.
Systematic Review Training Prizes and Support Group
The South West Clinical School in Cornwall promotes an annual prize to attract NMAHPs interested in systematically exploring the published evidence to find new knowledge and insights into a practice area they are interested in.
Honorary Clinical School Research Fellows
- Dr Alison James, Associate Professor in Midwifery
- Ali James, Nurse Lecturer
- Alison Bartlett, Associate Director for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing and Consultant Nurse
- Amie Emmett, Specialist Practitioner
- Amy Keates, Midwife
- Andrew Cashmore, Nurse Lecturer
- Angela Gibbon, Consultant Physiotherapist
- Carol Wilson, Occupational Therapist
- Caroline Jamison, Associate Head of School – Teaching and Learning
- Chloe Dyer, Nurse Lecturer
- Christine Bloor, Consultant Radiographer
- Christine Eade, Consultant Radiographer
- Diane Carpenter, Nurse Lecturer
- Donna Fletcher, Nurse Lecturer
- Emma Lamarti, Dietician
- Emma Underwood, Lymphedema Specialist (Occupational Therapist)
- Dr Gary Hodge, Research Fellow
- Gemma Morshead, Trainee Advanced Practitioner
- Hazel Cowles, Nurse Lecturer
- Heather Newton, Consultant Nurse
- Dr Helen Lyndon, Consultant Nurse
- Joanne Taylor, Deputy Director of IPAC/Consultant Nurse
- Julie Wright, Speech and Language Therapist
- Karen Cock, Consultant Nurse
- Linda Duggan, Nurse Lecturer
- Lisa Attrill, Nurse Lecturer
- Dr Lisa Burrows, Lecturer, University of Plymouth
- Liz Farrington, Clinical Director and Consultant Nurse
- Liz Tremayne-Ward, Occupational Therapist
- Louisa Forbes, Consultant Nurse
- Louisa Tompkins, Midwife
- Louise Dickinson, Deputy Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health and Director of Infection Prevention and Control (Consultant Nurse)
- Lynne Osborne, Consultant Nurse
- Mike Wilcock, Senior Pharmacist
- Neil Powell, Consultant Pharmacist
- Nicci Aylward-Wotton, Consultant Nurse
- Rachel Mullins, Midwife
- Richard Keates, Specialist Physiotherapist
- Rowen Hicks, Consultant Sonographer
- Ruth Bishop, Research Practitioner (Occupational Therapist)
- Sam Newton, Staff Nurse
- Sam Pearce, Trainee Advanced Practitioner
- Samuel Edwards, Consultant Nurse
- Sarah Martyn, Consultant Radiographer
- Sarah Myers, Nurse Lecturer
- Sarah-Jane Pedlar, Consultant Midwife
- Sarah-Lou Skitt, Consultant Nurse
- Dr Sharon Eustice, Consultant Nurse
- Sian Goddard, Physiotherapy Lecturer
- Dr Sophia Hulbert, Specialist Physiotherapist
- Sophie Bennett, Therapeutic Radiographer
- Sue Widdison, Consultant Radiographer
- Suzanne Adams, Specialist Practitioner
- Tamsin Fussel, Consultant Nurse,
- Tristan Coombe, Lecturer, University of Plymouth
- Zoe Cooper, Consultant Nurse
Honorary Clinical School Research Associates
- Katy Oak, Knowledge Service Manager
- Sinead Blowers, Subject Librarian
Honorary Associate Professors of the Clinical School
- Kim O’Keeffe, Chief Nursing Officer
- Frazer Underwood, Associate Director of Nursing for Research, Innovation and Improvement and Consultant Nurse in Integrated Services for Older People
Honorary Associate Directors of Nursing and Midwifery
- Professor Bridie Kent, Professor in Nursing Leadership
- Professor Jill Shawe, Professor in Maternal and Family Health
Contact your Clinical Schools Leads
Professor Jill Shawe
Dr Frazer Underwood
South West Clinical Schools
The South West Clinical Schools are a collaboration between the University of Plymouth and the NHS, working with nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals at all stages of their clinical and academic development.
Our work with local health services has identified the urgent need to capture improvements in patient and family outcomes, as well as ensure that existing evidence is used to best develop the research led by non-medical health professionals. To meet these needs, we have invested in clinical schools, which are professorial-led centres, in five of our local NHS trusts. The main focus for the clinical schools is to encourage health professionals to look at their practice, challenge current thinking, try out new ideas and work out ways to measure what they're doing.
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