Professor Katherine Curtis
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
- Kingston Hill
Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am the Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education. As an accomplished educator, researcher and a member of Kingston University's Senior Leadership Team, I am responsible for the financial and operational management of the Faculty in line with the University's Town House Strategy priorities, leading the faculty's senior team.
I joined Kingston University in 2018 as the Associate Dean External Engagement and Professor of Professional Development. Prior to this role, I held senior academic, leadership, and faculty executive positions in two other universities, including leadership of a large School of Nursing and Health Sciences providing a diverse range of programmes including post-graduate medical education. Before my academic career, I worked in senior roles within healthcare services, such as NHS Intensive Care provision.
Since joining Kingston University, I have attracted substantial external grants to undertake research and innovation in areas of healthcare and education and been actively involved in implementation of Town House Strategy for Kingston University. I have a broad sphere of external influence including Chair of strategic pan-London groups with key business partners and representing Kingston University at the Council of Deans of Health.
I have an extensive portfolio of pedagogic and clinical research activity with many peer-reviewed publications in the fields of professional development, co-design for leadership of ethical and compassionate practice, digital innovations within care settings, and professional socialisation. My research has had significant impact on professional practice and policy in healthcare; such as personal recognition as an expert advisor in Lord Willis (2015) Raising the Bar, Shape of Caring Report. I am currently supervising several PhD and Ed.D students and have had 6 students successfully complete their doctoral studies in the last 5 years. I provide internal and external Chair and Examiner activity for Doctoral Vivas.
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Surrey)
- MSc Behavioural Biology and Healthcare
- PG Diploma in Education
- BSc Psychology and Social Biology
- Registered General Nurse
- Intensive Care Nurse
- Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow
- National Certificate in Workplace Mediation
Domains
I teach on the Doctor of Education (Ed.D), Modules:
- Education Professionals as Knowledgeable Doers
- Knowledge and Practice in Educational Settings
I also supervise Ed.D and PhD students.
My research grants and publications are within the areas of healthcare professional education and practice development. My PhD identified the antecedents to socialisation in compassionate practice among student nurses in 2008, at a time when 'compassion' was just emerging as a key descriptor for health professional behaviour within the NHS Constitution and PSRB codes of conduct. My most recent grants, journal publications and conference presentations focus on the care of older people, such as cultivating compassion within multi-professional groups and across multiple organisations, and co-design for enabling engagement with digital health technology in challenging care environments.
I have attracted substantial external research funding over the last 5 years as well as Health Education England workforce development funding for scoping new roles, curricula, and practice education strategy. I currently supervise PhD and Ed.D students and have supported 6 doctoral students to successful completions in the last 5 years. I have a network of national and international research collaborators such as within the British Society of Gerontology Care Homes Research SIG and I am on the Scientific Committees for two prestigious conferences NETNEP and NET/AdvanceHE.
I Chair and contribute to several external Boards and Committees related to Higher Education in healthcare disciplines and represent Kingston University at the Council of Deans of Health. I set up the London Placements Strategic Oversight Group (PSOG) with Health Education England, London Region, to manage the safety and quality within student practice education during the pandemic and have subsequently transferred this group into a sustainable sub-group within the Pan-London Education Alliance so the work can progress in support of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
I am regularly invited to speak on topics of professional development. For example, a public talk organised as an Upgrade Masterclass by KU Alumni on 12th May 2021 (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jns4mNU31tI ), titled: Compassion and Self-Care in the Caring Professions. I was a panellist and the Chair of the event, with fellow panellists being: Dr Hazel McLaughlin who is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Past President of The British Psychological Society (President, 2020-21). Hazel is also the Founder and Managing Director of MorphSmart Limited, working with businesses, teams and with individual leaders to enable change and transformation. John Godden MBE who is the CEO of Salutem, a leading UK residential healthcare provider specialising in education and support for disabled people and those living with learning disabilities and complex needs. Valentine Nweze (MSW Social Work, 2011) who is the Interim Head of Service, Adult Mental Health Social Care working with an integrated Adult Mental Health service for the London Borough of Croydon and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
I have been invited to speak about professional issues with local business on a number of occasions. For example, a public facing event titled: The Future of Aging and Care Services. It demonstrated how business and KU work together to develop research and innovation, and was hosted by KU Business Engagement on 1st June 2020.
Watch 'Kingston University - "The Future of Ageing and Care Services event "' | Microsoft Stream (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/d8d7a15b-b7cf-4e12-bc3a-3661ec465427)
I am frequently invited to judge and present professional practice related awards, such as judging 'University Educator of the Year' for the Student Nursing Times Awards.
Publications
Hermeneutic phenomenological research on how nurse educators make meaning of compassion and understand its role in their professional practice
Curtis, Katherine, Hammond, John and Hurley, Gemma, 2022, Nurse Education Today (119), Published
Moral resilience through harmonised connectedness in intensive care nursing: a grounded theory study
Sala Defilippis, T., Curtis, K. and Gallagher, A., 2020, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (57), Published
Digital health technology: factors affecting implementation in nursing homes
Curtis, Katherine and Brooks, Sheila, 2020, Nursing Older People (32), 2pp 14-21, Published
Conceptualising moral resilience for nursing practice
Sala Defilippis, Tiziana M. L., Curtis, Katherine and Gallagher, Ann, 2019, Nursing Inquiry (26), 3, Published
Academic misconduct: helping students retain their moral compass
Tee, Stephen and Curtis, Kathy, 2018, Nurse Education Today (61)pp 153-154, Published
Putting knowledge to work in clinical practice: understanding experiences of preceptorship as outcomes of interconnected domains of learning
Allan, Helen Therese, Magnusson, Carin, Evans, Karen, Horton, Khim, Curtis, Kathy, Ball, Elaine and Johnson, Martin, 2018, Journal of Clinical Nursing (27), 1-2pp 123-131, Published
Factors that influence older people's engagement with digital health technology
Curtis, Katherine and Price, Kyle, 2017, Nursing Older People (29), 10pp 27-30, Published
Developing and using a toolkit for cultivating compassion in healthcare: an appreciative inquiry approach
Ramage, Charlotte, Curtis, Kathy, Glynn, Angela, Montgomery, Julia, Hoover, Elona, Leng, Jane, Martin, Claire, Theodosius, Catherine and Gallagher, Ann, 2017, International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care (5), 1pp 42-64, Published
Realising dignity in care home practice: an action research project
Gallagher, Ann, Curtis, Katherine, Dunn, Michael and Baillie, Lesley, 2017, International Journal of Older People Nursing (12), 2, Published
Using Appreciative Inquiry to develop, implement and evaluate a multi-organisation 'Cultivating Compassion' programme for health professionals and support staff
Curtis, Katherine, Gallagher, Ann, Ramage, Charlotte, Montgomery, Julia, Martin, Claire, Leng, Jane, Theodoisus, Catherine, Glynn, Angela, Anderson, John and Wrigley, Martha, 2017, Journal of Research in Nursing (22), 1pp 150-165, Published
Using iterative cycles of discovery within a Glasarian grounded theory of socialisation in compassion
Curtis, Katherine, 2017, SAGE Research Methods Cases, Published
Delegation and supervision of healthcare assistants' work in the daily management of uncertainty and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses
Allan, Helen T., Magnusson, Carin, Evans, Karen, Ball, Elaine, Westwood, Sue, Curtis, Kathy, Horton, Khim and Johnson, Martin, 2016, Nursing Inquiry (23), 4pp 377-385, Published
Charting the elements of pedagogic frailty
Alpay, E., Curtis, K., Franklin, J., Rivers, C., Winstone, N.E. and Kinchin, I.M., 2016, Education Research (58), 1pp 1-23, E-pub ahead of print
Compassionate care: the student nurse perspective
Curtis, Katherine, 2015, Nursing and Residential Care (17), 11pp 641-642, E-pub ahead of print
People, liminal spaces and experience: understanding recontextualisation of knowledge for newly qualified nurses
Allan, Helen Therese, Magnusson, Carin, Horton, Khim, Evans, Karen, Ball, Elaine, Curtis, Kathy and Johnson, Martin, 2015, Nurse Education Today (35), 2pp 78-83, Published
Compassion is an essential component of good nursing care and can be conveyed through the smallest actions
Curtis, Katherine, 2015, Evidence-Based Nursing (18), 3, Published
'Doing the writing' and 'working in parallel': how 'distal nursing' affects delegation and supervision in the emerging role of the newly qualified nurse.
Magnusson, Carin, Allan, Helen, Johnson, Martin, Evans, Karen, Ball, Elaine, Horton, Khim, Curtis, Kathy and Westwood, Sue, 2015, Nurse Education Today (35), 2pp 29-33, Published
Learning the requirements for compassionate practice: student vulnerability and courage
Curtis, Katherine, 2014, Nursing Ethics (21), 2pp 210-223, Published
21st century challenges faced by nursing faculty in educating for compassionate practice: embodied interpretation of phenomenological data
Curtis, Katherine, 2013, Nurse Education Today (33), 7pp 746-750, E-pub ahead of print
Student nurse socialisation in compassionate practice: a grounded theory study
Curtis, Katherine, Horton, Khim and Smith, Pam, 2012, Nurse Education Today (32), 7pp 790-795, E-pub ahead of print
Raising the bar: shape of caring : a review of the future education and training of registered nurses and care assistants.
Curtis, Katherine (2015). [Published]
Socialisation in compassionate practice
Curtis, Katherine (2015). Saarbrucken, Germany: [Published]
Designing for quality experiences and outcomes
Tee, Stephen and Curtis, Kathy (2020). In: Hall, Carol, Gobbi, Mary, Whitcomb, Kathryn, Yoder-Wise, Patricia, (eds.)[Published]
Socialisation in compassionate practice: the student nurse experience
Curtis, Katherine (2018). In: Brophy, Michael, Prendergast, Mary, (eds.), Dublin, Ireland:pp 131-144 [Published]
When Heidegger meets Freire
Buckley, Aga, Calestani, Melania and Curtis, Katherine(2023). [Published]
Hermeneutic phenomenological research on how nurse educators make meaning of compassion and understand its role in their professional practice in an HEI in the UK
Hurley, Gemma, Hammond, John and Curtis, Katherine(2022). [Published]
Developing professional leadership for innovation and improvement in nursing home care: the LAUNCH project
Curtis, Katherine(2022). [Published]
The LAUNCH Project: enabling practice and leadership development for digital health technology innovation
Curtis, Katherine and Brooks, Sheila(2019). [Published]
Enabling engagement with Digital Health Technology (DHT) in nursing home communities: using appreciative inquiry methodology to create a nurse leadership strategy to launch, sustain and transform care through DHT
Curtis, Katherine and Brooks, Sheila(2019). [Published]
A mixed methods investigation into the impact of ICCI (Intentional Compassionate Communication Interventions) for older people in A&E
Paglioni, Marta, Curtis, Katherine, Branney, Jonny and Valentine, Janine(2018). [Published]
Using appreciative inquiry to support and develop nursing leadership and co-create an innovative online CPD toolkit for cultivating compassion
Curtis, K. and Martin, C.(2018). [Published]
The context of healthcare education in 2017 - the future professional
Curtis, Katherine(2017). [Published]
Context of healthcare education 2017 - the future professional
Curtis, Katherine(2017). [Published]
The process of re-harmonising connectedness as an ethical challenging experience
Sala Defilippis, Tiziana ML, Gallagher, Ann and Curtis, Katherine(2017). [Published]
The changing UK nursing workforce: supporting the successful introduction of new roles and apprenticeship education
Curtis, Kathy(2017). [Published]
Compassionate practice: personal expectation, professional duty & real world challenges
Curtis, Katherine(2016). [Published]
Moral resilience among intensive care nurses in Switzerland: a grounded theory study
Sala Defilippis, Tiziana ML, Gallagher, Ann and Curtis, Katherine(2016). [Published]
Happiness, eudaimonia and moral resilience
Sala, T, Gallagher, A and Curtis, K(2016). [Published]
ENACT: Empowering nurses to provide ethical leadership in care homes
Curtis, Katherine(2015). [Published]
Conceptualising moral resilience
Defilippis, Tiziana, Gallagher, Ann and Curtis, Katherine(2015). [Published]
Delegation as a newly qualified nurse: early findings from an intervention study
Curtis, Katherine(2014). [Published]
Nursing's got talent: nurturing students' intentions to provide compassionate care
Curtis, K(2012). [Published]
The student experience of socialisation in compassionate care
Horton, Khim, Smith, Pam and Curtis, Kathy(2011). [Published]