I am a Doctoral researcher in Education. I hold an MSc, MA Ed, PGDip, BSc, and a B. Ed in Economics, Business management and Accounting. I am a Senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Nursing and Midwifery council registrant for Midwifery, Nursing, Nurse Prescriber and Specialist Community Public Health nurse (Health visitor). I have an extensive and varied clinical experience within the fields of midwifery and several specialist areas in nursing such as intensive care unit and public health which spans over decades. I have special interests in women and children’s health, social justice and the factors that create, enhance, and enrich students' experiences and lower attrition rates.  I have taken on several senior academic roles in BNU, including Director of Education for nursing and midwifery programmes, programme leadership and a BSc year one lead, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. My pastoral support and nominations contributed to the shortlisting of four prestigious professional national awards for my personal tutees, with one winning a highly reputable national award.

I am a peer reviewer for a significant number of reputable midwifery and nursing journals and contribute to the plethora of knowledge for professional practice. I offer expert impartial and independent advice for Nursing and Midwifery programmes as an external examiner for other universities, including as an external for NMC validated programmes to assure and enhance a quality curriculum and delivery.

I have been involved in experts’ conversations in parliament to drive national policies and initiatives that enhance early years provisions, such as 1001 critical days. I have given impetus to exploratory research in practice, through the sharing of case studies on safeguarding vulnerable children and women to inform service delivery. I initiated and developed a safe home birth travel system for a major maternity unit in London to ensure safety for mothers and babies during home births.  

I am a member of the Royal College of Midwives and an active member of the Royal College of Nursing with a union steward representative role. I am a strong advocate for social responsibility and adhere to the Nolan principles being a volunteer for several charities including school governor and trustee roles. I completed the reputable NHS leadership academy over a decade ago. I am a Co-founder, Co-director, Chair and President of the African Nurses and Midwives association UK. I relish the mentorship opportunity that this role affords in enabling me to mentor senior nurses and midwives within the association, who aspire to be excellent leaders within their fields.

It is humbling to have been a recent winner for the highly esteemed and prestigious Zenith Global Health award, for Excellence in both the fields of Nursing and Midwifery. It is a great honour to be a current institutional wide winner for Excellence and Innovation in Student Learning and Support. It is a great privilege to have recently been a finalist for the Student Nursing Times Awards for University Educator of the year. I am proud to have been a finalist for the Royal College of Midwives awards for Excellence in Midwifery leadership in recognition for my nationwide work in midwifery, particularly with Black and African midwives. My proud moments include yearly institutional award finalist for the past five years for the learner impact award, teaching impact award, outstanding impact award, the most inspirational lecturer award and several others. 

I am proud to have been a School Director of Education for Nursing and midwifery for years, with strategic and operational leadership for all Nursing and Midwifery programmes; to ensure innovative, distinctively high in quality and internationally comparable and competitive programmes.  It is always a great privilege to have shared several research studies on international platforms such as Advance HE conferences. It is an honour to be a regular invited speaker for organisations such as the Royal College of Nursing, to contribute to knowledge exchange, to enrich and improve nursing and midwifery practice and profession of which I am immensely proud to be a part of.