Alison Smalley
Senior Lecturer in Nursing

Profile

Biography

Alison trained as Registered General Nurse in London before specialising in Children’s Nursing in Leeds where she worked in children’s oncology, paediatric surgery and children’s medical and surgical day care. With a special interest in the psychological health care needs of children and adolescents in hospital, she completed a BA Hons in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1998, here at the University of York.

In 2000 she joined the Department of Health Sciences and completed her MSc in Health Professional Education in 2007. Alison has experience of teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and is currently the lead for the 1sy year Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Health and Wellbeing module.

Alison has a special interest in infant and early years, child and adolescent development. She is passionate about infant, child and adolescent mental health and adolescent health issues specifically related to chronic illness and transition.  Alison also has many years of experience coordinating child and adolescent mental health care education and practice experience for pre-registration nursing students. 

A particular area of interest also lies in the development and delivery of interprofessional education activities with nursing, midwifery and social work students. 

Qualifications

• RGN
• RSCN 
• ENB 998- Teaching, Assessing and Clinical Supervision
• BA Hons Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• MSc Health Professional Education 
• Senior Fellow - Higher Education Academy

Departmental roles

• Deputy Chair of the Honorary Sub Group for Health Sciences
• Member of the RPL committee
• Member of Board of Studies

Publications

Selected publications

• Smalley, A (1999) Needle Phobia, Paediatric Nursing Vol 11, No 2, pg 17-20 

Presentations

• 'Designing, implementing and evaluating an IPE day for midwifery and social work undergraduates: meaningful interprofessional opportunities to meet, engage and learn'.  3rd-5th Sept 2019, NET Conference, University of Keele, with co-authors Helen Bedford, Katie Graham & Carole Lindsey.
• Presentation workshop: 'Creating partnerships for interprofessional education (IPE): lecturer and student perspectives on an innovative learning event' Annual Learning & Teaching Conference, 29th June 2019, University of York, with co-presenters Helen Bedford, Katie Graham and Carole Lindsey.

Poster Presentations

• Poster: 'A collaborative educative approach to improve transition services: closing the gap between child and adult care delivery'. Poster at RCP Transition: developmentally appropriate care for young people with long term conditions 12^th October 2015 with co-authors Gelder, C., MacArthur, C., Phillips, A., Rudd ,K., Evans, P., Smalley, A., Redfern, S., Morgan, S., Campbell, F.
• Poster: "A collaborative educative approach to improve transition services: closing the gap between child and adult care delivery" at A New Look at Young People's Health, Manchester, 25 February 2016, with co-authors Gelder, C., MacArthur, C., Phillips, A., Rudd ,K., Evans, P., Smalley, A., Redfern, S., Morgan, S., Campbell, F.
• Poster: 'Connecting with compassion: Interprofessional Education (IPE) for undergraduate midwifery and social work students' 11th June 2019, Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Education Conference, Bath, with co-authors Katie Graham, Carole Lindsey and Alison Smalley

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Stage 1 lead
• Module lead – 1st year Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Health and Wellbeing.
• Seminar lead:
  • 1^st year Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Health and Wellbeing
  • 2^nd year Professional Development in Nursing module
  • 3^rd year Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Health and Wellbeing module.
• Personal Supervisor.
• Academic Assessor for 3^rd year BSc Nursing Programme.

External activities

Memberships

• Royal College of Nursing 
• Nursing and Midwifery Council
• University College Union
• Higher Education Academy

External Examiner Role

• External Examiner to University of Leicester (MSci Leadership with Dual Registration (Child and Mental Health)).

Invited talks and conferences

• Poster "A collaborative educative approach to improve transition services: closing the gap between child and adult care delivery" at A New Look at Young People's Health, Manchester, 25 February 2016.