Senior Lecturer and Field of Practice Lead (Adult)
I have worked within the health care sector for over 35 years and have dual qualification: Registered Nurse and District Nursing (Cert). My career has been interesting and varied and over the years I have worked within a number of specialist areas; including orthopaedics, respiratory care, community nursing, health screening and care of the older person. For seven years I worked as a senior research nurse at University College London (Ethnicity and diabetes related lower limb amputation); Imperial College London (Arterial compliance); Cambridge University (Genetics of juvenile diabetes).
I joined the University of Bedfordshire in 2004 as a Lecturer and am now a Senior lecturer and Field of Practice Lead (Adult). I have developed a keen interest in the pedagogy of teaching and learning and am active in ensuring that students feel well supported and achieve to the best of their potential.
Qualifications
- NMC registered nurse / NMC recorded lecturer
- District Nursing (Cert)
- MSc Research & Evaluation
- BA Psychology
- Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
Teaching Role
- I teach on both pre and post–registration nursing courses at Advanced Diploma, Degree and Masters level
- I co-ordinate year 2 of the pre-registration adult nursing course
- I have taught on a Masters in Public Health via both a face-to-face and online mode of learning
Research Interests
- Education
- Diabetes
- Internationalisation
- Resilience
Recent Research Projects
- Introducing a Service Improvement Initiative (National Health Service Institute for Innovation and Improvement – NHSI) into the pre-registration nursing curriculum (2009)
- Learning how to care: a pilot project to enhance emotion management skills in nursing (2008)
- Teaching Research Online to Students Studying a Masters in Public Health (2008)
Service to the Academic/Professional Community
- Faculty teaching & quality standards committee
- Journal reviewer for Nurse Education Today / Book Reviewer
- External Validation Panel Member (University of Plymouth)
- Curriculum Development Group
Recent Conference Presentations
- Enhancing reflective practice, resilience and wellbeing in the caring professions, University of Brighton, 2011
- Developing, enhancing and sustaining research skills in a diverse population of students undertaking a Masters in Public Health: an action research study, E-Leader Conference: Vietnam, 2011
- Employing Action Research to explore the challenges of developing research skills in Masters level students, Bridging the Gaps Conference: University of Bedfordshire, 2010
- Enhancing reflective practice, resilience and wellbeing in the caring professions, 16th International Reflective Practice Conference: University of Bedfordshire, 2010
- Identifying the Challenges of Developing Research Skills in e-learners: an Action Research Study of Masters level Public Health Students in the UK, E-Leader Conference: Singapore, 2010
- Making Research Count via an Online Environment – An Action Research Study, 5th Education in a Changing Environment Conference Critical Voices, Critical Times: University of Salford, 2010
- Emotional labour in nursing & midwifery students – an undervalued skill? Nurse Education Tomorrow (NET) Conference: Fitzwilliam College University Cambridge, 2009
- Developing Academic Practice using Turnitin, 3rd International Plagiarism Conference Transforming practice for an authentic future: Northumberland University Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2008
- Engaging, educating an developing students understanding of Plagiarism, 3rd International Plagiarism Conference. Transforming practice for an authentic future: Northumberland University Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2008
- Research informed teaching in an online environment, Advancing Change Conference; University of Bedfordshire, 2008
- Wikis for beginners, Embracing e-Learning Conference: University of Bedfordshire, 2007
Recent Publications
- Leggetter, S & Sapsed, S (2011) Developing, enhancing and sustaining research skills in a diverse population of students undertaking a Masters in Public Health: an action research study. Refereed Program of the E-Leader Conference at Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, USA available at: www.g-casa.com/conferences/vietnam/paper/Leggetter.pdf
- Leggetter, S & Sapsed, S (2010) Identifying the Challenges of Developing Research Skills in e-learners: an Action Research Study of Masters level Public Health Students in the UK. Singapore, Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference at Singapore Management University ISSN 1935-4800 Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, January
- Sapsed, S. & Leggetter, S. (2010) ‘Reflecting on the creation of on-line Distance Learning teaching & learning materials’ Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference at Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary ISSN 1935-4819 Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, New York, USA, June.
- Sapsed, S. & Leggetter,S (2009) Evaluating communication with our E-Learners on the Public Health Masters course: University of Bedfordshire Refereed Program of the E-Leader Conference at Tallinn, Estonia Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference at the University of Economics January
- Sapsed, S, Leggetter, S & Pike, D. (2008) Developing a Distance Learning Program for the Public Health Masters - University of Bedfordshire. Refereed CD-ROM of the E-Leader Conference Krakow. Poland, Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, USA January
- Strain WD, Chaturvedi N, Leggetter SY, Nihoyannopoulos P, Rajkumar C, Bulpitt CJ, Shore AC. (2005) Ethnic differences in skin microvascular function and their relation to cardiac target-organ damage. Journal of Hypertension 23(1):133-40.
- Chaturvedi N, Bulpitt CJ, Leggetter SY, Schiff R, Nihoyannopoulos P, Strain WD, Shore AC, Rajkumar C (2004) Ethnic differences in vascular stiffness and relations to hypertensive target organ damage. Journal of Hypertension 22(9): 1731-1737
- Leggetter SY, Chaturvedi N, Fuller JH, Edmonds ME. (2002) Ethnicity & Risk of Diabetes Related Lower Extremity Amputation; A Population Based Case-Control Study of African Caribbeans & Europeans in the UK. Archives of Internal Medicine 162: 73-78
- Chaturvedi N, Abbott CA, Whalley A, Widdows P, Leggetter SY, Boulton AMJ. (2002) Risk of diabetes-related amputation in South Asians versus Europeans in the UK. Diabetic Medicine 19: 99-104
Contact Details
Butterfield campus
Unit 260-270
Butterfield
Great Marlings
Luton, LU2 8D
T: +44 (0) 1582 743 8245 (Ext. 6313), 07872 423913
E: sandra.leggetter@beds.ac.uk
