The Open University

Dr Verina Waights
Chair: Department of Nursing Research Group
Department of Nursing
Faculty of Health and Social Care
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Tel: 01908 654785 (Mrs Cath Moody, Secretary: 01908 654708)
Email: V.waights@open.ac.uk
Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/hsc

 

Special areas of research activity

  1. Pedagogical research in work-based learning
  2. Professional Identity
  3. Older people
  4. Lived experience of service users, relatives and carers
  5. Mental Health
  6. Public Health

 

PhD supervision

Dr Lindsay O'Dell, Director of Postgraduate Studies / Penny Wilkinson, Research Assistant 
Tel: 01908 658373
Email: l.odell@open.ac.uk / p.d.wilkinson@open.ac.uk
Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/hsc

 

Postgraduate research training opportunities

The Open University and the Royal College of Nursing strategic alliance is a partnership created to initiate imaginative development and change in healthcare education and practice. This brings together the UK's leading provider of distance learning and the country's foremost professional organisation for nurses.

Website: OU/RCN alliance

 

Public and patient involvement

Contact: Wendy Jordan - PA to the Director
Faculty of Health and Social Care External Engagement Team
Tel: 01908 655181
Email: hsc-external-engagement@open.ac.uk