Professor Katherine Curtis
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
- Kingston Hill
Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor
- Email:
- k.curtis@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am the Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education. As an accomplished educator, researcher and a member of Kingston University's Senior Leadership Team, I am responsible for the financial and operational management of the Faculty in line with the University's Town House Strategy priorities, leading the faculty's senior team.
I joined Kingston University in 2018 as the Associate Dean External Engagement and Professor of Professional Development. Prior to this role, I held senior academic, leadership, and faculty executive positions in two other universities, including leadership of a large School of Nursing and Health Sciences providing a diverse range of programmes including post-graduate medical education. Before my academic career, I worked in senior roles within healthcare services, such as NHS Intensive Care provision.
Since joining Kingston University, I have attracted substantial external grants to undertake research and innovation in areas of healthcare and education and been actively involved in implementation of Town House Strategy for Kingston University. I have a broad sphere of external influence including Chair of strategic pan-London groups with key business partners and representing Kingston University at the Council of Deans of Health.
I have an extensive portfolio of pedagogic and clinical research activity with many peer-reviewed publications in the fields of professional development, co-design for leadership of ethical and compassionate practice, digital innovations within care settings, and professional socialisation. My research has had significant impact on professional practice and policy in healthcare; such as personal recognition as an expert advisor in Lord Willis (2015) Raising the Bar, Shape of Caring Report. I am currently supervising several PhD and Ed.D students and have had 6 students successfully complete their doctoral studies in the last 5 years. I provide internal and external Chair and Examiner activity for Doctoral Vivas.
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Surrey)
- MSc Behavioural Biology and Healthcare
- PG Diploma in Education
- BSc Psychology and Social Biology
- Registered General Nurse
- Intensive Care Nurse
- Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow
- National Certificate in Workplace Mediation
Domains
I teach on the Doctor of Education (Ed.D), Modules:
- Education Professionals as Knowledgeable Doers
- Knowledge and Practice in Educational Settings
I also supervise Ed.D and PhD students.
My research grants and publications are within the areas of healthcare professional education and practice development. My PhD identified the antecedents to socialisation in compassionate practice among student nurses in 2008, at a time when 'compassion' was just emerging as a key descriptor for health professional behaviour within the NHS Constitution and PSRB codes of conduct. My most recent grants, journal publications and conference presentations focus on the care of older people, such as cultivating compassion within multi-professional groups and across multiple organisations, and co-design for enabling engagement with digital health technology in challenging care environments.
I have attracted substantial external research funding over the last 5 years as well as Health Education England workforce development funding for scoping new roles, curricula, and practice education strategy. I currently supervise PhD and Ed.D students and have supported 6 doctoral students to successful completions in the last 5 years. I have a network of national and international research collaborators such as within the British Society of Gerontology Care Homes Research SIG and I am on the Scientific Committees for two prestigious conferences NETNEP and NET/AdvanceHE.
I Chair and contribute to several external Boards and Committees related to Higher Education in healthcare disciplines and represent Kingston University at the Council of Deans of Health. I set up the London Placements Strategic Oversight Group (PSOG) with Health Education England, London Region, to manage the safety and quality within student practice education during the pandemic and have subsequently transferred this group into a sustainable sub-group within the Pan-London Education Alliance so the work can progress in support of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
I am regularly invited to speak on topics of professional development. For example, a public talk organised as an Upgrade Masterclass by KU Alumni on 12th May 2021 (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jns4mNU31tI ), titled: Compassion and Self-Care in the Caring Professions. I was a panellist and the Chair of the event, with fellow panellists being: Dr Hazel McLaughlin who is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Past President of The British Psychological Society (President, 2020-21). Hazel is also the Founder and Managing Director of MorphSmart Limited, working with businesses, teams and with individual leaders to enable change and transformation. John Godden MBE who is the CEO of Salutem, a leading UK residential healthcare provider specialising in education and support for disabled people and those living with learning disabilities and complex needs. Valentine Nweze (MSW Social Work, 2011) who is the Interim Head of Service, Adult Mental Health Social Care working with an integrated Adult Mental Health service for the London Borough of Croydon and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
I have been invited to speak about professional issues with local business on a number of occasions. For example, a public facing event titled: The Future of Aging and Care Services. It demonstrated how business and KU work together to develop research and innovation, and was hosted by KU Business Engagement on 1st June 2020.
Watch 'Kingston University - "The Future of Ageing and Care Services event "' | Microsoft Stream (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/d8d7a15b-b7cf-4e12-bc3a-3661ec465427)
I am frequently invited to judge and present professional practice related awards, such as judging 'University Educator of the Year' for the Student Nursing Times Awards.
Publications
Socialisation in compassionate practice
Curtis, Katherine (2015). Saarbrucken, Germany: (Scholars' Press)
Hermeneutic phenomenological research on how nurse educators make meaning of compassion and understand its role in their professional practice
Hurley, Gemma, Curtis, Katherine and Hammond, John, 2022, Nurse Education Today (119), pp 105588
Moral resilience through harmonised connectedness in intensive care nursing : a grounded theory study
Sala Defilippis, T., Curtis, K. and Gallagher, A., 2020, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (57), pp 102785
Digital health technology : factors affecting implementation in nursing homes
Curtis, Katherine and Brooks, Sheila, 2020, Nursing Older People (32), 2, pp 14-21
Conceptualising moral resilience for nursing practice
Sala Defilippis, Tiziana M. L., Curtis, Katherine and Gallagher, Ann, 2019, Nursing Inquiry (26), 3, pp e12291
Academic misconduct : helping students retain their moral compass
Tee, Stephen and Curtis, Kathy, 2018, Nurse Education Today (61), pp 153-154
Putting knowledge to work in clinical practice : understanding experiences of preceptorship as outcomes of interconnected domains of learning
Allan, Helen Therese, Magnusson, Carin, Evans, Karen, Horton, Khim, Curtis, Kathy, Ball, Elaine and Johnson, Martin, 2018, Journal of Clinical Nursing (27), 1-2, pp 123-131
Factors that influence older people's engagement with digital health technology
Curtis, Katherine and Price, Kyle, 2017, Nursing Older People (29), 10, pp 27-30
Developing and using a toolkit for cultivating compassion in healthcare : an appreciative inquiry approach
Ramage, Charlotte, Curtis, Kathy, Glynn, Angela, Montgomery, Julia, Hoover, Elona, Leng, Jane, Martin, Claire, Theodosius, Catherine and Gallagher, Ann, 2017, International Journal of Practice Based Learning in Health and Social Care (5), 1, pp 42-64
Realising dignity in care home practice : an action research project
Gallagher, Ann, Curtis, Katherine, Dunn, Michael and Baillie, Lesley, 2017, International Journal of Older People Nursing (12), 2, pp e12128
Using Appreciative Inquiry to develop, implement and evaluate a multi-organisation 'Cultivating Compassion' programme for health professionals and support staff
Curtis, Katherine, Gallagher, Ann, Ramage, Charlotte, Montgomery, Julia, Martin, Claire, Leng, Jane, Theodoisus, Catherine, Glynn, Angela, Anderson, John and Wrigley, Martha, 2017, Journal of Research in Nursing (22), 1, pp 150-165
Using iterative cycles of discovery within a Glasarian grounded theory of socialisation in compassion
Curtis, Katherine, 2017, SAGE Research Methods Cases
Delegation and supervision of healthcare assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertainty and the unexpected in clinical practice : invisible learning among newly qualified nurses
Allan, Helen T., Magnusson, Carin, Evans, Karen, Ball, Elaine, Westwood, Sue, Curtis, Kathy, Horton, Khim and Johnson, Martin, 2016, Nursing Inquiry (23), 4, pp 377-385
Charting the elements of pedagogic frailty
Kinchin, I.M., Alpay, E., Curtis, K., Franklin, J., Rivers, C. and Winstone, N.E., 2016, Education Research (58), 1, pp 1-23
Compassionate care : the student nurse perspective
Curtis, Katherine, 2015, Nursing and Residential Care (17), 11, pp 641-642
People, liminal spaces and experience : understanding recontextualisation of knowledge for newly qualified nurses
Allan, Helen Therese, Magnusson, Carin, Horton, Khim, Evans, Karen, Ball, Elaine, Curtis, Kathy and Johnson, Martin, 2015, Nurse Education Today (35), 2, pp 78-83
Compassion is an essential component of good nursing care and can be conveyed through the smallest actions
Curtis, Katherine, 2015, Evidence-Based Nursing (18), 3, pp 95
'Doing the writing' and 'working in parallel' : how 'distal nursing' affects delegation and supervision in the emerging role of the newly qualified nurse.
Johnson, Martin, Magnusson, Carin, Allan, Helen, Evans, Karen, Ball, Elaine, Horton, Khim, Curtis, Kathy and Westwood, Sue, 2015, Nurse Education Today (35), 2, pp 29-33
Learning the requirements for compassionate practice : student vulnerability and courage
Curtis, Katherine, 2014, Nursing Ethics (21), 2, pp 210-223
21st century challenges faced by nursing faculty in educating for compassionate practice : embodied interpretation of phenomenological data
Curtis, Katherine, 2013, Nurse Education Today (33), 7, pp 746-750
Student nurse socialisation in compassionate practice : a grounded theory study
Curtis, Katherine, Horton, Khim and Smith, Pam, 2012, Nurse Education Today (32), 7, pp 790-795
Designing for quality experiences and outcomes
Tee, Stephen and Curtis, Kathy (2020). In: Hall, Carol, (eds.), Gobbi, Mary, (eds.), Whitcomb, Kathryn, (eds.) and Yoder-Wise, Patricia, (eds.), Sage handbook of nursing education. Sage
Socialisation in compassionate practice : the student nurse experience
Curtis, Katherine (2018). In: Prendergast, Mary, (eds.) and Brophy, Michael, (eds.), Sharing compassion : a fortuitous journey of illumination. Dublin, Ireland: Rainsford Press, pp 131-144
When Heidegger meets Freire
Buckley, Aga, Calestani, Melania and Curtis, Katherine(2023). In: JSWEC 2023: Social Work Education, Research and Practice in Turbulent Times, 15-16 Jun 2023 :Glasgow, U.K.
Hermeneutic phenomenological research on how nurse educators make meaning of compassion and understand its role in their professional practice in an HEI in the UK
Hurley, Gemma, Hammond, John and Curtis, Katherine(2022). In: NETNEP 2022 : 8th International Nurse Education Conference : from education to impact : transforming nursing and midwifery education, 19-22 Oct 2022 :Sitges, Spain.
Developing professional leadership for innovation and improvement in nursing home care : the LAUNCH project
Curtis, Katherine(2022). In: NETNEP 2022 : 8th International Nurse Education Conference : from education to impact : transforming nursing and midwifery education, 19-22 Oct 2022 :Sitges, Spain.
The LAUNCH Project : enabling practice and leadership development for digital health technology innovation
Curtis, Katherine and Brooks, Sheila(2019). In: NET2019 Conference, 03-05 Sep 2019 :Keele, U.K.
Enabling engagement with Digital Health Technology (DHT) in nursing home communities : using appreciative inquiry methodology to create a nurse leadership strategy to launch, sustain and transform care through DHT
Curtis, Katherine and Brooks, Sheila(2019). In: British Society of Gerontology 48th Annual Conference : Resilience and Living Well in Local Communities, 10-12 Jul 2019 :Liverpool, U.K.
Paglioni, Marta, Curtis, Katherine, Branney, Jonny and Valentine, Janine(2018). In: Humanising Care, Health and Wellbeing, 21-22 Jun 2018 :Bournemouth, U.K.
Using appreciative inquiry to support and develop nursing leadership and co-create an innovative online CPD toolkit for cultivating compassion
Curtis, K. and Martin, C.(2018). In: NETNEP 2018 : 7th International Nurse Education Conference, 06-09 May 2018 :Banff, Canada
The context of healthcare education in 2017 - the future professional
Curtis, Katherine(2017). In: Mentorship Conference 2017 : “The Changing Face of Healthcare Education : What Does This Mean For You”, 20 Nov 2017 :Salisbury, U.K.
Context of healthcare education 2017 – the future professional
Curtis, Katherine(2017). In: Mentorship Conference 2017 : Changing Face of Healthcare Education, 01 Nov 2017 :Yeovil. U.K.
The process of re-harmonising connectedness as an ethical challenging experience
Sala Defilippis, Tiziana ML, Gallagher, Ann and Curtis, Katherine(2017). In: 18th Nursing Ethics Conference and 3rd International Ethics in Care Conference : “Present and Future Challenges and Opportunities for Ethics in Nursing and Care”, 15-16 Sep 2017 :Leuven, Belgium
The changing UK nursing workforce : supporting the successful introduction of new roles and apprenticeship education
Curtis, Kathy(2017). In: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Phi Mu Chapter : Business Meeting and Scholarly Presentations, 23 Feb 2017 :Bournemouth, U.K.
Curtis, Katherine(2016). In: 8th International Cashel Conference : Spirituality and the Law as Compassionate Forces in Healthcare, 07 Nov 2016 :Cashel, Ireland
Moral resilience among intensive care nurses in Switzerland : a grounded theory study
Sala Defilippis, Tiziana ML, Gallagher, Ann and Curtis, Katherine(2016). In: 17th International Nursing Ethics Conference, 2nd International Ethics in Care Conference and V Workshop on Health and Human Rights : 'Ethics and Human Rights in Health Care', 14-15 Sep 2016 :Sao Paulo, Brazil
Happiness, eudaimonia and moral resilience
Sala, T, Gallagher, A and Curtis, K(2016). In: Economics, Health and Happiness, 14-16 Jan 2016 :Lugano, Switzerland
ENACT : Empowering nurses to provide ethical leadership in care homes
Curtis, Katherine(2015). In: 1st International ICE Observatory and 16th Nursing Ethics Conference : The Future of Ethics in Care, 17-18 Jul 2015 :Guildford, U.K.
Conceptualising moral resilience
Defilippis, Tiziana, Gallagher, Ann and Curtis, Katherine(2015). In: 1st International ICE Observatory and 16th Nursing Ethics Conference : The Future of Ethics in Care, 17-18 Jul 2015 :Guildford, U.K.
Delegation as a newly qualified nurse : early findings from an intervention study
Curtis, Katherine(2014). In: RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2014, 02-04 Apr 2014 :Glasgow, U.K.
Nursing's got talent : nurturing students' intentions to provide compassionate care
Curtis, K(2012). In: NETNEP 2012 : 4th International Nurse Education Conference : Changing the Landscape for Nursing and Healthcare Education, 17-20 Jun 2012 :Baltimore, U.S.A.
The student experience of socialisation in compassionate care
Curtis, Kathy, Horton, Khim and Smith, Pam(2011). In: NET2011 : 22nd International Networking for Education in Healthcare Conference, 06-08 Sep 2011 :Cambridge, U.K.