Staff Profile

A head and shoulders shot of Tracey Hayes wearing a mortarboard on graduation day at BNU

Tracey Hayes

  • Senior Lecturer

College of Health and Society

Tracey Hayes

  • Senior Lecturer

College of Health and Society
Contact tracey.hayes@bnu.ac.uk
Contact tracey.hayes@bnu.ac.uk
Biography

  • Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in 2019, I was working in clinical practice as a Health Visitor Community Practice Teacher. For three years I also line managed across two health visiting skill mix teams. A highlight and accolade of my health visiting career was a secondment I obtained to work with the practice education team which gave me the opportunity to work within a regional secure mother and baby mental health unit and develop a programme of education for staff based upon the UK Healthy Child Programme. This was a service level agreement which resulted in the unit being able to recruit several new members of staff. I qualified as a Children’s Registered Nurse in 1999, and following some time working within general children’s wards I spent six years working within a children’s emergency department where I discovered my passion for both minor injuries and the importance of health promotion and prevention of ill health.

Course(s)
Teaching Team
BSc (Hons) Children's Nursing - Full Time
Qualifications
    • I studied for my Dip HE (Ed) in Children’s Nursing at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (BCUC)  1996-1999
    • I undertook a Mentorship in Practice course at BNU 2007
    • I studied BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Health Visiting at Brunel University 2009
    • I studied a Practice Teacher level 6 award at BNU in 2013
    • I studied for a Postgraduate certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) at BNU between 2020 – 2022
    • I studied a Masters in Education (MA (Ed) at BNU between 2023 - 2025.
Research Interests/Academic Interests

  • My area of special interest is supporting students to feel confident to seek help with academic writing skills early in their nursing programme. This area is interesting because of the paradox that can occur early within any academic programme between competency and confidence to seek support. Nursing programmes contain several new genres of information to learn, and my area of interest seeks to explore student experiences in navigating this process.
External Positions/Memberships

  • I am a member of:

    • Nursing midwifery council (NMC) - Registered Nurse (Child)
    • Nursing midwifery council (NMC) - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor (HV)
    • Nursing midwifery council (NMC) – Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber (CPNP)
    • Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Currently Supervising

  • BSc (Hons) third year level 6 dissertation students.
Projects

  • I am currently working on publishing an article for a nursing journal in relation to academic writing help seeking behaviours in first year student nurses.  

    I am collaborating with Associate Professor Melanie Hayward and other colleagues to write a chapter within a book named ‘Safeguarding Children: Core Concepts for Healthcare Professionals’.