Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Women's Health, Course Lead for Public Health Masters
I started teaching in 1976 at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City and completed my degree with the Open University in 1986.
I have worked since 1994 with the University of Bedfordshire, initially teaching the degree called Women Studies. In October 2003, I finished my MPhil ‘Exploring how nurses and midwives gain their research skills’.
As a Graduate member of the BPS, this qualification has been used with distance learning students at London South Bank University for over 14 years.
Over the years I have taught many subjects in Nursing and Midwifery and have been a Parentcraft Sister. Additionally, I have link wards at the Luton and Dunstable NHS Hospital Trust.
I have been teaching on the Public Heath Masters since 2005, and have overseen its progress and adoption of a distance learning mode. My areas of interest are Public Health, Health Promotion, Ethics, Gynaecology, Professional Development (all aspects) and Midwifery.
Qualifications
Academic
- MPhil - University of Luton, 2003
- BA Hons - Open University, 1986
Professional
- Midwife Teacher’s Diploma of Teaching Practice (PGEC) – University of Surrey and RCM, 1976
- Advanced Diploma in Midwifery Clinical Teaching – RCM, 1974
- Registered Midwife St Mary’s, Portsmouth, 1968
- Registered General Nurse, Addenbrookes, Cambridge, 1967
Teaching Role
Research Interests
- Surrogacy
- How Nurses and Midwives gain their research skills
- Blended learning
- Midwifery
- Ethics
Recent Research Projects
- 2007 – 2010 ARC study
- 2007 – 2009 Leggetter, S. & Sapsed, S. Research informed teaching in an online (RiT Project £5000)
- 2007 Blended learning- result –students wanted a mixed delivery within their programme
- 2005 Power and Practice – Surrogacy – result – change in maternity unit policies toward care of surrogate women
- 2004 Surrogacy: International Phenomenon- results – some recognition of its existence in some of the countries.
- 2003 How nurses and Midwives gain their Research skill: in relation to reading research and applying it to Practice- immediate results- removal of the ENB 870, long term interactive teaching not achieved.
Service to the Academic/Professional Community
- Graduate Membership of the British Psychology Society, 1990
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2000
- Honouree Member of Foresight, 2002
- President East Hertfordshire RCM Branch, 2002
- East of England RCN Research network, 2005
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2007
- Associate member of the Faculty of Public Health, 2010
Recent Conference Presentations
- Sapsed, S. & Matthews, D. Ethical Issues in Public Health Education – Oral presentation Refereed Program of the E-Leader Conference at Faculty www.g-casa.com, Berlin School of Economics and Law IMB Institute of Management Berlin, Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, New York, USA, June 2012
- Sapsed, S. & Matthews, D. "The Body in Illness: A Personal Reflection", – Oral presentation Refereed Program of the E-Leader Conference at Faculty, www.g-casa.com Berlin School of Economics and Law IMB Institute of Management Berlin, Chinese American Scholars Association, New York, New York, USA, June 2012
- Sapsed, S. & Matthews, D. Ethical Issues In Problem-Based Learning, Oral presentation - CPBL 2012, Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences, Rovaniemi-Lapland Congresses, April 2012
- Sapsed, S. - ‘Can we offer the same learning experience to our distance learning students as we do to our taught students?– Oral presentation - Outcomes and Impacts, Park Square Campus University of Bedfordshire, July 2011
- Sapsed, S. & Matthews, D.‘The Growth of the Public Health Masters at University of Bedfordshire' - Oral presentation - Outcomes and Impacts, Park Square Campus University of Bedfordshire, July 2011
- Leggetter S. &, Sapsed, S. ‘Developing, enhancing and sustaining research skills in a diverse population of students, undertaking a masters in public health: an action research study’ - Oral presentation - Outcomes and Impacts, Park Square Campus, University of Bedfordshire, July 2011
- Sapsed, S. ‘Can we offer the same learning experience to our distance learning students as we do to our taught students?– Talk Poster- 6th Education in a Environment Conference International Conference, University of Salford,UK, July 2011
Recent Publications
- Papadopoulos, C. & Sapsed, S. 2012 VLE segregation or integration? How should distance learning and taught modes be treated? ‘The Journal of Pedagogic Development’ Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
- Sapsed, S. & Leggetter, S. Making Research Count via Online Environment, Chapter 13, O’Doherty, E. (ed) The Fifth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Book 2009, California, InformingScience Press, p.201-221
- Burden,B. & Sapsed, M.S. The Fetal Skull, Chapter 30, Macdonal, S. & Magill-Cuerden, J. (eds.) Mayes’ Midwifery, Edinburgh, Bailliere Tindall p.397- 393
Contact Details
Luton campus
Park Square
Luton, LU1 3JU
T: +44 (0)1582 743769
E: susan.sapsed@beds.ac.uk
