Cambridge
0845 196 2473
Belinda.Watts@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• Cert Ed
• LLB
• MA Applied Research
• Professional Doctorate:
• Registered General Nurse
• Registered Clinical Nurse Teacher
• Registered Nurse Tutor

Courses

• Research Supervisor Dissertations undergraduate
• Research Supervisor Dissertations postgraduate
• Law and Ethics across nursing and social work curricula
• Law and Ethics open learning
• Teach to Research Studies Module.
• Teach to Collaborative Practice for Integrated Care

Current academic management responsibilities

• Role: Module Leader. Pathway/course/module: Law and Ethics in Health & Social Care (level 4)

Outline of career

Belinda Watts qualified as a nurse in 1977 and worked in the NHS and the private sector in a variety of roles until 1984. In 1984 she moved into nurse education where she was involved with teaching to and leading a range of pre-registration and post-registration nursing programmes. In 1989 she completed a degree in Law at Liverpool University and in 1994 a Masters in Educational Research at UEA. She joined Anglia Ruskin University (then APU) in 1994 as Pathway leader to the BSc (Hons) in Health Studies, and subsequent pathway leadership roles have included the MSc Nurse Practitioner & MSc Interprofessional Practice. In 2005 she became programme leader for Advanced Practice Pathways and in 2008 Programme Leader for Allied Health - Interprofessional Learning.

Research Interest

PrD 2002-2009

Evaluating the roles and experiences of facilitators to the IBL curriculum in nursing and social work.

Research Interests:- Phenomenology,
Ethics of Research
and Evaluative Research

Selected Publications

Watts B.J & Jones S (2000) Inter-professional Practice and Action Research. Educational Action Research, Volume 8 Number 2.

Watts B.J & Jones S (2002) Inter-professional Practice and Action Research: commonalities and parallels in: Theory and Practice in Action Research: some international perspectives (Eds) Day, C.Elliot, J. Somekh, B. & Winter, R.Symposium Books.UK.

Watts B.J (2007) Evaluating IBL in pre-registration nursing and pre-qualifying social work: The Ethical Dimension of the facilitators Role. Reflections on problem Based Learning. A Republic Polytechnic Publication