Mrs Rachel Allen-Ashcroft

My professional background is as an Adult Nurse and Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute and Emergency Medicine. I have undertaken many roles within the National Health Service ranging from Band 5-Band 8A. I have taught and delivered both Undergraduate health education and Postgraduate Advanced Practice Education.

I am currently the Associate Academic Dean Health within LSBU Global. I am responsible for supporting  collaborative projects both domestically within the UK and Transnationally. My role also includes supporting the development of piplelines into the LSBU Group and delivering contemporary apprenticeships with health partners.

 

Health lead within LSBU Global supporting the transformation of applied education and  post-graduation education working in collaboration with the Colleges and the LSBU Group. 

I undertook a theoretical investigation (Allen-Ashcroft 2016-2019) as part of improving teaching delivery where I created a virtual and augmented reality lung. This was developed from concept of idea through to its implementation as part of teaching delivery for 500 Postgraduate students. The unpublished evaluations provided an indication as to the huge potential this technology has to advance learning beyond traditional classrooms walls. This now forms the basis of my PhD research where the aim is to examine and evaluate the impact of using immersive technology in the teaching delivery versus traditional teaching delivery in Postgraduate health students and under graduate medical students. 

• Fitness to Practice Local Manager LSBU Global
• Previous mentor for students HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic Programme
• Chair and Co chair of LSBU Global Academic Standards Commitee
• Acheive Panel member for HEA awards
• Exam board Chair for LSBU Global
• Member of the curriculum data structure review
• Member of Dnet Disability network
• Part of the TSSAM review

 

Advanced Practice Postgraduate Education (Adult) Independent prescribing Pharmacology Applied Pathophysiology Work based Learning Renal/ Liver physiology Advanced physical examination Acute and Critical Care subjects XR pedagogy and integration into contemporary curriculum Leadership and Management Applied Teaching and Learning Curriculum design and quality Creative pedagogy and technology enhanced learning