Claire Leader

Assistant Professor

School: Healthcare and Nursing Sciences

My nursing and midwifery career has spanned over 20 years across clinical practice, research delivery and more recently in academia as a Senior Lecturer for Northumbria University.

In my current role I am responsible for the Programme leadership of the September 2018 Adult Nursing cohort of approximately 300 students. This role incorporates a range of responsibilities relating to programme and module design and management, student support, engagement and enhancement of the student experience as well as quality monitoring and review. From September 2021 I will also be contributing to pre-registration nursing programmes at Glasgow Caledonian University as an external examiner.

I completed my MA at Newcastle University in Sociology and Social research. The focus of my dissertation was decision making in pregnancy following a previous caesarean section using Foucault’s Technologies of Power as a theoretical framework. Building on theoretical understandings of power, I am currently undertaking a PhD in the area of NHS workforce wellbeing and policy implementation which I hope to have completed by 2025.

I have a range of publications including articles in peer reviewed journals, comment pieces as well as book chapters which contribute to knowledge and education of Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals.

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Key Publications

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Leadership competences in undergraduate nurse education: Scale development and model testing, Conner, T., Allan, J., Annesley, S., Leader, C., Unsworth, J., Tomietto, M. 1 Aug 2025, In: Nurse Education in Practice
An Exploration of the Use of Deliberate Practice in Team-Centered Healthcare Simulation-Based Education: An Integrative Review, Platt, A., Allan, J., Leader, C. 1 Sep 2024, In: Clinical Simulation in Nursing
Fundamentals of Maternal Anatomy and Physiology, Peate, I., Leader, C. 2 May 2024
Fundamentals of Maternal Pathophysiology, Leader, C., Peate, I. 2 May 2024
Inflammation and the Immune Response, Ford, C., Leader, C. Apr 2024, Fundamentals of Maternal Pathophysiology, Hoboken, US, Blackwell Publishing
Interprofessional education: promoting collaboration, Leader, C. 4 Jul 2024, In: British Journal of Nursing
Preparing for Practice, the Effects of Repeated Immersive Simulation on The Knowledge and Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Platt, A., Allan, J., Leader, C., Prescott-Clements, L., McMeekin, P. 1 Jan 2024, In: Nurse Education in Practice
Professional identity and moral distress in nursing and midwifery leadership, Leader, C. 11 Sep 2024, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Conference
The cardiovascular system and associated disorders, Cameron-Radford, M., Bhatt, K., Gurney, L., McEwan, T., Leader, C., Peate, I. 2 Sep 2024, In: British Journal of Midwifery

Professional Activity

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Hosting an academic visitor: Jennifer Solomon 2024
Invited talk: Simulated Practice Learning in a UK Nursing Curriculum: Integrating Research and Practice 2023
Hosting an academic visitor: Frances McGill 2023
Invited talk: An evaluation of online examinations and remote proctoring for pre-registration nursing students 2021
Publication Peer-review: Blackwell Publishing (Publisher) 2021