Alison Warren
Academic lead for practice learning, Department of children and young people's health
Birmingham City University
Alison Warren joined Birmingham City University (BCU) as a senior lecturer July 2019 following a career in clinical practice nursing spanning 38 years. She has both child and adult nursing qualifications.
She has a wealth of experience in children and young people’s nursing, and has worked in a number of roles including, education fellow for Health Education England (supporting in the care of children in an emergency department), clinical matron for children’s services, PICU, neurosciences, hepatology and liver transplantation, orthopaedics, clinical education, skills and simulation, preceptorship lead and resuscitation services.
At BCU she is the college academic lead for practice learning and is responsible for the strategic oversite of the practice component of nursing and midwifery programmes. She also lectures on several modules.
In 2014-15 she worked with a small project team for Health Education West Midlands on the Every Student Counts project and is a co-author of the Mind the Gap – Exploring the Needs of Early Career Nurses and Midwives in the Workplace report. Her interest in generational typologies continues, and this has led to her work around recruitment and retention of newly qualified practitioners, and the preceptorship agenda. She has also been involved in research into coma evaluation in children.
Ms Warren is the founder member and chair of the West Midlands Regional Preceptorship Group and has participated in the development of the National Preceptorship Framework (2022); she sits on the West Midlands Interim Quality Mark Panel. She is also the chair of the Partners in Paediatrics Senior Nurse Forum.
During her nursing career she has published a number of articles and contributed to a chapter in a book. She is also actively involved in the simulation agenda and was a Student Nursing Times Awards finalist for an online simulation model developed during the pandemic.
She has actively been involved in clinical holding research and teaching innovation, and has been a member of the collaborative project team since 2010.
Alison Warren is speaking at the following session on Wednesday 23 October:
Student mental health and well-being