Hazel Mccullough RGN PGCE MA(Ed) PhD

Coordinator Professional Dev and Educational Advisor

Following my nursing training at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London I worked in primary care in London and Chester, before taking up a senior nurse management post in secondary care to project manage the setting up an acute stroke unit, at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

My interest in education came from working with English language students in Senegal, retraining in TEFL and working as an English Language Teacher at The British Council in Cairo.  After gaining a PGCE from Bolton Institute and an MA in Education from The Open University, I worked as a lecturer in Health Studies at Liverpool Community College, then as a senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care and later as deputy head of Practice Learning at the University of Chester.  In addition to my main teaching responsibilities within the Diploma, BSc Nursing, CPD and MSc in Professional Education programmes, I also managed the Mentorship programme and was an external examiner for the PG Diploma and Masters in Adult Nursing programme at City University. 

I took a career break in 2006 to undertake a PhD from the University of Liverpool, whilst working on the Gates Malaria Partnership (GMP) project  http://gmp.lshtm.ac.uk/ to develop, implement, support, monitor and evaluate the Personal Development Planning (PDP) Programme for the GMP PhD students and postdoctoral researchers based in sub-Saharan Africa.  

Lessons learned from this successful programme were taken forward in the Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC) project http://www.mcdconsortium.org/ when I joined the School in 2009 as the MCDC professional development and educational advisor.  My main responsibilities include developing and managing the PDP and mentoring programmes for research scientists as part of the capacity building initiatives within MCDC.  

I am also an educational supervisor for the LSHTM PGCILT programme and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

My research interests are in capacity development and education and in particular the use of motivational strategies (such as PDP and mentoring) to support individual learning and personal development. 

 

 

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