Dr Melaine Coward

Head of School of Health Sciences, Senior Teaching
Health Sciences
University of Surrey
United Kingdom

Professor Healthcare
Biography

Since qualifying as a Registered Nurse she has worked in the field of Oncology and Haemato-oncology nursing. She has worked in a variety of areas including London teaching hospitals and a specialist cancer hospital. She was a successful Nurse Manager in Cancer Care managing a department which was granted the Charter Mark award for excellence twice, as well as being awarded ISO 9002 status. She has worked in healthcare education since 1999 and at the University of Surrey in a variety of roles since 2001. She currently teach on a range of modules and programmes relating to health care management / leadership, professionalism and reflection in practice. She has a keen interest in enabling students to utilise their previous knowledge and experiences in Higher Education to further develop themselves.  This aspect of her teaching practice aligns to her pedagogical research around approaches taken to teaching reflection in nurse education.

Research Intrest

2017 Educational Doctorate (Kingston University) 2006 Dissertation research for MA Clinical Education (an Action Research Enquiry into the motivation of students undertaking required CPD). 1999 Responsible for the creation of a clinical trials unit in the Sussex Oncology Centre and its management. Negotiation of contracts to undertake National Clinical Trials, management of the team and ensuring standards of practice through the regional ethics committee.

List of Publications
Coward M, Crombie A, Joy M, Ream E, Tremblay M, Wilson P. Primary Care Strategic Workforce Planning Programme.
Coward M. An enquiry into nurse educators’ beliefs, understandings and approaches to teaching the concepts of reflection to adult student nurses in UK Higher Education Institutes (Doctoral dissertation, Kingston University).
Coward M. Does the use of reflective models restrict critical thinking and therefore learning in nurse education? What have we done?. Nurse Education Today. 2011 Nov 30;31(8):883-6.