Professor Jacqueline Leigh
Director of nursing and midwifery education
EdgeHill University
Professor Jacqueline Leigh is a registered general nurse, adult field. Having worked as a senior nurse in healthcare organisations across Greater Manchester, she transitioned into higher education initially as a lecturer practitioner, progressing to lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and, in 2018, was awarded a personal chair at the University of Salford via the Teaching and Learning/Student Success pathway. She is professor of nursing and director of nursing and midwifery education at Edge Hill University.
An advocate for evidence-based education, Professor Leigh has significant experience in developing and evaluating innovative approaches to teaching and learning that meet workforce needs in nursing, health and social care. For example, she has experience of working across Greater Manchester and the north west of England creating opportunities for the development of the healthcare workforce around nursing, midwifery and interprofessional supervision and assessment in practice.
Her expertise in nurse education practice is recognised at the highest level receiving multiple learning and teaching awards including Advance HE Principal Fellow, National Teaching Fellow, Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence, and multiple University of Salford Vice Chancellor Distinguished Teaching Awards. She is the appointed governor at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As an executive coach, she particularly enjoys supporting individuals to learn and develop and reach their full potential. As an experienced UK NHS Leadership Academy healthcare leadership 360 feedback facilitator (individual and group), she coaches and mentors senior healthcare leaders as part of the Northwest Leadership Academy mentoring scheme.
She is an active editorial board member of the British Journal of Nursing, frequently publishing papers on nurse education practice. She co-leads the national Personalised Care Interprofessional Education Network.
Professor Jacqueline Leigh is speaking at the following session on Thursday 24 October:
Person-centred practice in nursing