Chelmsford
0845 196 4732
ruth.taylor@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD
• MSc Nursing
• Postgraduate certificate in tertiary level teaching
• BSc (Hons) Nursing
• RGN

• Royal College of Nursing steering group: Education Forum
• The Higher Education Academy
• Advisory Committee: Scottish Government International Development Fund project (A sustainable model of rural midwifery in Malawi, Robert Gordon University/University of Aberdeen)
• International Advisory Board, Nurse Education Today
• Editorial Board, Primary Health Care Journal

Outline of Career

Ruth's clinical background was in oncology nursing and practice nursing.

She started working in higher education in 1998 and has held varied roles including leadership of a General Practice Nursing degree and a large pre-registration nursing programme before taking on the leadership of a School of Nursing and Midwifery.

She has worked widely across the sector with roles in the QAA Scotland First Year Enhancement Theme, and the Recruitment and Retention Delivery Group (Scottish Government and NHS Education for Scotland).

In the latter group she led the national work on Data Enhancement and played a key role in the development of policy and practice for student retention.

Ruth Taylor began working at Anglia Ruskin University in 2013.

Research Interests

Ruth's research interests include: the student experience, retention and selection of student nurses and midwives, education and support of midwives in rural Africa, nursing education and impact on practice. Case study research and phenomenology are methodological areas of interest.

Selected Publications

Webster, B., Tee, S. and Taylor, R. 2013. Clinical Academic Careers ? A United Kingdom Approach. Global Alliance for Leadership in Nursing Education and Science. Melbourne Australia.

Taylor, R. (Editor) (forthcoming). Essentials of Nursing and Health Care Research. London: SAGE.

Taylor, R. and Martindale, S. 2012 (in press) Clinical leadership in primary health care. Primary Health Care.

Sabin, M., Tilley, C. and Taylor, R. 2012. Untangling a complex issue: an overview of initiatives to support nursing and midwifery student recruitment, selection and retention in Scottish universities. Nurse Education Today. 32 (4), 469-474 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691712000536#

Taylor, R. 2012. Using and developing the evidence-base in primary health care. Primary Health Care. 22(1), pp.31-36.

Taylor, R. 2012. Social capital and the nursing student experience. Nurse Education Today. 32, 250-254. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691711001183

McKie, A., Baguley, F., Guthrie, C., Jackson, C., Kirkpatrick, P., Laing, A., O?Brien, S., Taylor, R. and Wimpenny, P. 2012. Exploring clinical wisdom in nursing education. Nursing Ethics. 19(2). nej.sagepub.com/content/19/2/252.short

Carter, G. and Taylor, R. 2012. The influence of a personal patient experience on student nurse development. Nursing Times. 108(20), 21-23.

Taylor, R. 2009. Ensuring educational excellence: Priorities for educationalists? careers. Nursing and Midwifery Education and Workforce Development: Towards 2020 Consensus Event, Edinburgh, 18-19 November 2009.

Taylor, R. 2005. Creating a connection: Tackling student attrition through curriculum development. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 29(4), 367-374. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03098770500353698