Dr Victor Abu

I am an educationist, researcher, academician, clinician and a leader

I am a senior lecturer with education responsibilities for designing, teaching, assessing and administering undergraduate and postgraduate nursing courses, and supervising postgraduate dissertations. I apply critical and inclusive pedagogies for active learner-tutor collaboration and learner success. I have taught at secondary schools in two countries in Africa. This has grounded my teaching experience at different academic levels and geographic regions.

I have academic/educational research interests and publications in social justice nursing practice and education, equitable health and education, language diversity, health promotion and public health, and qualitative and grounded theory research. I also have clinical research interests in prostate cancer, benign prostate conditions, and decision-making about cancer care.   

I am a Senior Fellow and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a professional commitment to teaching, learning and student experience. My internal and external presentations on critical learning, social justice and linquicism demonstrates my leadership in these areas. 

I have clinical specialist experience in investigating and treating benign and malignant prostate diseases. I also have nursing experience in treating different solid cancers with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and palliative care. 

I have had esteem recognitions in research/academic sabbatical at the University of Calgary, Canada, an Early Career Researcher representative in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, a member of the England Chief Nursing Officer's Faces of Nursing and midwifery Research, an external examiner for nursing postgraduate and undergraduate courses, a textbook contract on social justice nursing practice, and a peer-reviewer of textbooks and academic journals.

I have held several leadership roles, including president and secretary general of institutional and national students' unions, as well as chair/president of alumni and social organisations.

I enjoy current affairs programmes, all sorts of music and dance genres, organising social events, and DIYing or doing it myself.    

My academic/educational research interests include:

• Social justice issues in nursing practice and education - 
• Equitable and accessible health and education
• Critical and inclusive pedagogies 
• Qualitative and grounded theory research
• Critical thinking and evidence-based practices
• Health promotion and public health care 

My clinical research interests include:

• Information support and decision-making in cancer care
• Prostate cancer including radical and minimally invasive investigations and treatments
• Benign prostate conditions including lower urinary tract symptoms and prostatis

Module leader - PGDip/MSc, Adult, Mental Health, Children and Learning Disability Nursing - 140 student participants, 6 teaching staff

Module leader - BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing, Appraising Evidence for Practice - 387 student participants, 7 teaching staff.

Post Graduate Research Supervisor - MSc Adult Nursing

Doctoral Supervisor - Director of Study, Prostate cancer project, Co-Supervisor, The hidden workforce project

LSBU PURE Research Ethics Reviewer

External Examiner - University of Essex, Cardiff University

Module Leader - Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health - PGDip/MSc, Part 1, Adult / Mental Health / Learning Disability / Children Nursing Divisions 

Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health - Nursing Associate/ Apprenticeship, Parts 1 and 2, Adult Nursing Division

Communication for Nursing - BSc (Hons), Part 1, Adult / Mental Health / Children / Learning Disability Nursing Divisions

Introducing Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing - BSc (Hons), Part 1 Adult / Mental Health / Children / Learning Disability Nursing Divisions

Module Leader - Appraising Evidence for Practice - BSc (Hons), Part 2 Adult Nursing Divisions

Implementing Best Practice - BSc (Hons), Part 3 Adult Nursing  Divisions

Assessing Needs and Planning Care in Adult Nursing - BSc (Hons), Part 1

London Doctoral Academy - Sessional support - Doctoral Pathway, Doctoral Experience, Doing and Reporting Theoretical/Conceptual and Frameworks

Module-Curriculum Proposed: Justice-Oriented Nursing Practice, for 2025-26 Nursing Curriculum Revalidation, applying to all Parts and Divisions of the LSBU Pre-registration Nursing Programme 

SAGE Publishers Textbook Contract (2024 - ): Social justice in nursing: Practising awareness and action, to be completed in 2026 and published in 2027

Research/Academic Sabatical Knowledge Exchange (2024) - University of Calgary, Canada, developing social justice, anti-racist, and de-colonolising nursing curriculum and pedagogy

Community Prostate Cancer Health Talks - At the Health Show (London Black, African and other communities) - as Guest Speaker and contributor, from 2020 to 2026; At the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Greenwich, Health Talk, as Guest Speaker. 

Textbook Review: Chatfield, T. (2023), Critical Thinking, 2nd Ed, SAGE Publishers; Stevens, P. (2024), Qualitative Data Analysis: Key Approaches. New Edition, SAGE Publishers; Urquhart, C. (2025), Grounded Theory for Qualitative Research, 3rd Ed, SAGE Publishers; Adhikari, R. & Smith, P. (2025), Decolonising Global Nursing, Eds., Routledge | Taylor & Francis

Journal Review - Nurse Education Today, Teaching and Learning in Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Heliyon, Journal of Research in Nursing

Grant Project Reviewer - National Institute for Health and Care Research (2025)

Post Graduate Research Supervision Projects:

Sheela Gautam (MSc 2021-22): An evaluation of a service improvement initiative implementing post-discharge follow-up telephone calls of urology patients discharged from hospital: A retrospective review of anonymised data.

Chinedu Obukwelu (MSc 2022-23): Pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions for improving the psychological well-being of people living with dementia aged above 64

Isaiah Oladejo (MSc 2022-23): Factors that affect the adherence of patients in the community with spinal cord injury to the use of intermittent self-catherisation: A systematic review

Mabinty Kamara (MSc 2022-23): Patients' perception of the feasibility and safety of same-day discharge after gynaecological procedures

Rose Joseph (MSc 2022-23): Possibility of reduced mortality for people at risk of prostate cancer who participate in lifestyle changes

Sachini Madawela (MSc 2022-23): An evaluation of the effectiveness of non-pharmacological management methods for females of reproductive age with Multiple Sclerosis

Tanya Romans (MSc 2022-23): Letrozole effectiveness at increasing oocyte production during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in breast cancer patients undergoing fertility preservation: A systematic review

Victor Matthew (MSc 2022-23): An evaluation of the effectiveness of harm reduction approaches for the treatment of substance misuse disorder in adults in the UK

Molly Dickinson (MSc 2023-24): The use of cannabis for the relief of symptom burden in palliative cancer patients: A systematic review

Shingirayi Nyamadzawo (2023-24): Promoting healthy lifestyle interventions for adolescents living with asthma: A systematic review

Kumba Bayon (2024-25): Racial discrimination effect on the quality of care for patients living with sickle cell disease in hospital

Bolaji Ogunwale (2024-25): Effect of nursing intervention on symptom management and quality of life for adults with Myeloma 

Linda Sowah (2025-26): Experiences of nurses providing palliative care in hospital: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis

Kadyan Logan (2025-26): Improving nursing care for the lived experiences of Black African and Black Caribbean men living with prostate cancer: A mini systematic review