PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

• HC2010, 27-29 April 2010, ICC Birmingham.
• European Conference on e-Learning. Ayia Napa, Cyprus 6-7 November 2009
• HEA Health Sciences and Practice, Festival of Learing , Walsall Campus of the University of Wolverhampton, 10-12 March 2009
• CfH Learning to Manage conference, RCOG, London 18 March 2009 Blog entry
• RCN conference - Moving technology into practice, Cardiff 11 March Blog entry
• HEA HS&P Festival of Learning - Walsall 10-12 March 2009 - Blog entries Day 1 & Day 3
• Web 2.0 for Health & Social Care - Northern Ireland Seminars 5 Dec 2008 Blog entry
• E-learning in health and social care study day 23 Nov 2008, UWE, Bristol Blog entry
• European Conference on E-Learning (ECEL) 6 & 7 Nov 2008 Ayia Napa, Cyprus Day 1, Day 2
• RCN workshop - getting eHealth into pre-reg education 29 Oct 2008 London Blog entry
• Medicine 2.0 4 & 5 Sept 2008 Toronto, Canada Day 1, Day 2, reflections
• CfH Nurses Conference, London 17 June 2008 Blog entry
• SDPhil progression exam, UWE 9 June 2008
• NHS Faculty of Health Informatics Masterclass, London 15 May 2008 Blog entry
• NHS-HE Forum, London 14 May 2008 Blog entry
• Science Communication Unit Seminar, UWE 5 March 2008
• HEA HS&P elearning SIG, Wolverhampton 18 Jan 2008
• WIMBA & podcasting demo, UWE 17 Oct 2007
• Web2.0 & Multimedia in Education workshop, UWE 14 Sept 2007
• Medinfo 2007, Brisbane, Australia 20-24 August 2007blog entry (see also previous 7 entries)
• EMERGE Unconference. Manchester (Salford) 9-10 July 2007 Blog entry
• NHS Faculty of Health Informatics Open Workshop Shared Care Record, Bristol 20th April 2007 blog entry
• HEA Health Sciences & Practice Festival of Learning, London, 29th March 2007
• E-learning in practice conference Bristol 13 Sept 2006 Blog Entry
• ALT-C 2006 Edinburgh 5-7 Sept 2006 Blog entry(see also previous 12 entries)
• NI2006 Seoul Korea, 9-14 June 2006 - conference blog
• Health Day at WWW2006 Conference 27th May 2006 - Blog entry
• Connecting for Health, Nursing & Midwifery Conference 28th March 2006 - Blog entry
• HC 2006 Harogate 19-21 March 2006 Blog
• NSG meeting with C4H Nursing Leads 1st March, London 2006
• BCS Meeting - Sean Brennan on NPfIT 17th Nov 2005, Bristol
• eLearning in the NHS Seminar 3rd Nov 2005 - personal notes
• NHS-HE Forum meeting 12th May 2005, UCL London - personal notes
• HC 2005 Harrogate 21-23 March 2005 - personal review & blog
• Education Steps - A Health Informatics think tank 17-18 March 2005, UK.
• Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA Workforce Development Confederation Stakeholder Conference - Transforming the NHS Workforce - 22 April 2004 Blunsden House Hotel, Swindon.
• HC 2004 Harroagte 22-24 March 2004 - personal report
• Open Steps - a thinktank on open source and free software in health informatics 10-11 Feb 2004, Marwell Zoo Hotel, Winchester
• Transforming Healthcare: Nursing Leadership as the Critical Success Factor 25th September 2003, Winchester personal report
• NI2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20-25 June 2003 - personal report
• Information & Litigation in Healthcare -NSG Conference, Kettering 11.6.03 - report
• "Quality Health Information on the web" Libraries for Nursing, Belfast 22.5.03 personal report
• Breaking Boundaries : Innovation in medical education, Manchester 12 & 13.2.03 - personal report
• NHSU consultation event, Birmingham 14.1.03 - personal report
• Health Informatics Research Group (HIRG) Conference Birmingham 2.12.02 - personal report
• Libraries for Nursing Study Day 29.11.02 - personal report
• eHealth Exchange London 20.11.02 - personal report
• NeLH Health Informatics discussion group, Birmingham 19.11.02 - personal report
• NHS ICT and Informatics Professionals Conference London 30th Oct 2002 - personal review
• Nurse Education Tomorrow (NET 2002) Durham 3-5 9.02
• Radical Steps meeting BCS HIC - Birmingham NEC 25.7.02
• Manual Handling Key Trainers Course 16-19 July 2002
• Spotlight Conference 21 & 22 May 2002
• Sheffield LMU lunchtime awareness sessions May 2002
• HC2002 Conference 18&19 March 2002 Harrogate - Personal review available
• Health Informatics Health Educators Conference 13.12.01 - University of Warwick Personal review available
• Medinfo 2001 2-5.9.01 ExCel Conference Centre London - Personal Review Available
• RCSLT Conference 17-19.4.01 Metropole Hotel B'ham - joiunt exhibitor with NHSIA
• HCN/BNI Press Roundtable 5.4.01 - Hampshire Hotel, Leicester Sq London
• BCS NSG Education Forum 30.3.01 - De Montfort University Leics
• HC2001 Conference 19-21.3.01 Personal Review avialable
• Libraries for Nursing - Innovation and Change - 27.2.01 personal review available
• Sharing the Experience: Informatics and Research in Healthcare Practice - NSG/FONS Conference 13.2.01 personal review available
• DNER Project management study day
• 1st DNER Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme Meeting - Manchester 16 & 17.11.00
• Virtual Think Tank - Future Health 7-9 .11.00
• BIOME Launch - Royal Society London 2.11.00 personal review available
• NI2000 - Auckland New Zealand 28.4.00-3.5.00 - personal review available
• HC2000 Healthcare Computing Conference - Harrogate 20-22.3.00 - personal review available
• BCS Nursing Specialist Group Education Focus Group Meeting 3.3.00 FONS
• NeLH-PC meeeting 20.1.00 -
• Nursing & NeLH Coloquium - 26th nov 1999 - personal review (with Sarah Stephens) available
• "Solving the Jigsaw" BCS Nursing Specialist Group Conference, 23rd Sept 1999 - personal review available
• NeLH and Secondary Care National heart & Lung Institute, London 9th sept 1999 - personal review available
• HC 99 Harrogate 22-24 March 1999 - personal review available
• Meet the UKCC - Sheffield 17.2.99 - personal review available
• Manual Handling Trainers Update 20, 28 & 29th Jan 1999
• BMiS Conference "Information for health in the New NHS: The New Strategy and Medical Informatics in the NHS. National heart & Lung Institute, London 19th Jan 1999 - Personal review available
• RCN "Developing an Nursing Informatics research & development agenda" Royal Intsitute of Public Health & Hygiene, London 26th oct 1998
• CTI, NSG & Enabling People conference "Communicating accross professional boundaries: can technology help?" Sheffield - 23 & 24.6.98
• Trent NHS IM&T Trainers study day "Delivering Open/Distance Learning over the Internet" 14.5.98 - Personal Review available
• University of Sheffield - Centre for the Study of Networked Learning  - Networked Learning Conference - 20 & 21.4.98
• Trent Regional IM&T Trainers Group - 9.3.98
• CSNL Seminar - Speaker Diana Laurillard - 4.3.98
• Attended Conference "Towards EPR: clinical issues & practical steps" 11.2.98 - Personal review Available
• Attended BMiS meeting on Knowledge Sources - .
• Attended BCS Nursing & Primary Pealth Care specialist groups conference 6-8 Nov 1997 - personal review available
• Participated in "Virtual Conference" Faculty Strategies for Engaging Online Learners from the Institute for Distance Education and International University Consortium. Oct 20-Nov 30 1997. See http://www.umuc.edu/ide/strategies/index.html for more details. - personal review available
• Trent Research Institute Conference. Sheffield 22nd April 1997.
• University of Sheffield, School of Nursing & Midwifery - Staff Conference 8th April 1997
• Paper "The WWW - a major educational tool into the next century." Presented at HC97 - Current Perpectives in Healthcare Computing. Harrogate 17-19 March 1997. Personal Review Available
• Attended launch of British Medical Internet Association - 18 March 1997
• Paediatric Basic Life Support Update 12th Dec 1996 Glenside
• Initial meeting "The Internet & Avon Health Authority" 9th Dec 1996
• Basic Life Support - Trainers Update & Certification 2nd Oct 1996 Glenside
• CRII/DTI seminar "EU Funding for Multimedia" 25th Sept 1996 Personal review available
• British Computer Society, Nursing Specialist Group Conference "making the right connections: electronic & human networks" Sheffield 19 & 20 Sept 1996. Personal Review Available + a short discussion paper based on my learning at the conference written for the H&SC Journal "Inprint"
• Study Day "How to write, design & publicise your Internet Web Site, organised by Business & Professional Research Organisation Ltd (BPRO) 8th July 1996 - Jury's Hotel Bristol. -
• Presentation of Paper & Posters "The Anatomy of a Web Site" at The First National Conference of the for Nursing & Midwifery. 27th & 28th June 1996. Robinson College Cambridge - Personal Review Available
• National Informatics/IM&T Education Group Meeting 16.5.96
• Workshop on preparing research proposals, 28th Feb 1996, Glenside
• Information Management & Technology in the Nursing Curriculum Group Meeting , 30th Nov 95, Solihull Hospital.
• Royal College of Nursing, Information Group (Inform) Conference & AGM, 10th Nov 1995, RCN HQ London
• British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group Conference & AGM (NSG 95), 21st & 22nd Sept 1995, Aston University
• NHS S&W Region, IM&T Forum Meeting, 15th June, Frome
• Royal College of Nursing, Health & Safety Reps Training Course, 22nd-26th May 1995,
• NHS S&W Region, IM&T Forum Meeting, 9th Feb 1995
• Bath & Swindon College Seminar - Personal & Professional Profiling, 26th Jan 1995

O.U./Bath & Swindon college study day on open learning in nurse education 21.9.93
St John's First Aid course (40hrs) June 29,30 & July 1st 1993
Organised and conducted a small scale evaluative project of Interactive Video in Nurse Education May-June 1993
Institute of Public Health Medicine Seminar - 13.1.93Nurse Practitioners in A&E
BACCN Education Forum Study day - 21.7.92 Educational Issues in Critical Care,
University of Southampton Academic Staff Development program- Teaching and Learning Technology program - 19 & 26.11.92
Novell Network managers course -15 & 16.12.92
I have also acted as a Health & Safety Representative for theRoyal College of Nursing.

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