Sue Faulds
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Biography

Sue joined the University of York in 2019 from the University of Southampton, where she worked for 15 years, developing expertise in healthcare professionals' education with a particular focus on advanced practice.  During this time Sue earned a Masters in Education (2002) and a PhD in Health Sciences in 2018.

During Sue’s time at the University of York, she has developed new programmes including MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Apprenticeship route), MSc Health Sciences and has advised on others in other Higher Education Institutions.  Sue also works for the Office of Students as a reviewer of End Point Assessments and has extensive experience in educational governance.

Sue is a founding member and Deputy Director of the Academy of Advanced Pratice Research UK, having previously held positions with the Association of Advanced Practice Educators UK and National Institute of Care Excellence Technology Appraisal Committee (NICE).  

Sue began her career as a Registered Nurse (Adult) with a clinical focus on intensive care and higher acuity patients, working in the NHS and private sector, as well as in the Nightingale Hospitals in Harrogate and London during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Southampton
• NMC registered teacher
• MA(ed), University of Southampton
• PG Cert Education, University of Southampton
• BSc (Hons) DeMontford University
• NMC registered Specialist Practitioner (Adult)
• Dip HE, University of Warwick
• RN (part 1)

Departmental roles

• Chair of Board of Studies

Research

Overview

Sue’s research focuses on the development of advanced practice with a particular interest in supervision and the development of tolerance to uncertainty in practice.  This follows on from Sue’s PhD thesis, which developed a new methodology to identify the unspoken rules of the nursing gaze.

Projects

• Systematic review of entrustable professional activities in advanced practice, Lead, 2025
• ‘Delphi study determining key priorities for advanced practice research’Co-PI and instigator, 2024 to date
• ‘Developing peer support for neurodiverse nursing and midwifery students’ Academic lead 2023 to date
• ‘APETURE study, a longitudinal study of the aspirations and successes of aspiring advanced practitioners, Co-PI 2023 to date
• SMART NURSE, €100,000 EU funding collaboration with DKI (German Institute for Technology), University of Southampton, Researcher 2016-2019 
•  Development of Researching Academic Practice, University of Southampton, Researcher - 2015-2017
• mPLAT (Mobile Platform Learning and Teaching) JISC funded in collaboration with Thames Valley University, University of Southampton, Researcher 2006-2008

Supervision

Sue has supervised PhD’s to successful completion and is interested in supervising projects related to advanced practice, educational curricula development and use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice.

Publications

Selected publications

• Thom, D. Faulds, S. (2025) The potential prehospital role of Levetirace: a systematic review Journal of Paramedic Practice 17:8
• Brown, J. Nisbett, R. Faulds, S. (2025) Practice what we preach: Co-creating an interdisciplinary module about public involvement in research. Advance HE Students as Co-creators 29 January 2025 
• Nisbet, R. Faulds, S. (2025) The development of a peer-support scheme to improve the experiences of neuro- divergent student nurses and midwives Advance HE Students as Co-creators 29 January 2025
• Rogers, M. Faulds, S. Conway, J. Topping, A (2024) UK Research Academy of Advancing Practice AAPEUK Annual conference 6 December 2024 
• Rogers, M., Jones, A. Faulds, S. Conway, J. Topping, A (2024) UK Research Academy of Advancing Practice: Shaping the Future The Centre for Advancing Practice conference 14 and 15 November 2024 
• Faulds, S. (2024) Entrustable professional activities in the Centre for Advancing Practice Advanced Practice Credentials - commissioned by Health Education England
• Faulds, S. (2023) Review of provision for advanced practice workplace supervisors in England – commissioned by Health Education England 
• Faulds, S. (2022) Seeing and hearing expertise in nursing in the Nursing Gaze; outcomes of a novel experimental methodological study at the 2nd WHCN Webinar on Healthcare and Nursing
• Faulds, S. (2021) Supporting trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners to tolerate uncertainty 14 December 2022 at the 2nd UKCGE Conference on PGT Education
• Faulds, S. Stone, S. (2019) Advanced Critical Care Practitioner - a conversation Poster and verbal presentation, Intensive Care Society State of the Art, Birmingham, UK 
• Gobbi, M. Faulds, S. (2018) Learning from students for students: first year readiness for assessment and feedback Building partnerships in assessment practices Conference, University of Southampton 24 April 2018
• Faulds, S. Humphrys K. Simulation in learning disabilities: An introduction to acuity – core paper (2010) NET 2010, Cambridge 
• Millard, D., Faulds, S., Gilbert, L., Howard, Y., Sparks, D., Wills, G. and Zhang, P. (2008) Co- design for conceptual spaces: An agile design methodology for m-learning. In: IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2008.
• Faulds, S., Howard, Y., Zhang, P., Millard, D., Wills, G. and Gobbi, M. (2008) mPLAT Mobile Placement Learning and Assessment toolkit for Healthcare Students. In: The Higher Education Academy on ePortfolios, identity and personalised learning in healthcare education. 
• Zhang, P., Millard, D., Wills, G., Howard, Y., Faulds, S., Gilbert, L. and Sparks, D. (2008) A Mobile Toolkit for Placement Learning. In: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2008), July 1st- July 5th, 2008, Santander, Cantabria, Spain.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Advanced Clinical Practice

External activities

Overview

• UK Quality Code Advice and guidance group Principle 7 - Designing, developing, approving & modifying programmes - member of development team (2025 to 2026)
• HCPC Standards for Education and Training review – expert member of the review group (2025 to 2026)
• Huntington Secondary School, York- Co-opted Governor (2024 to date)
• Office for Students, Independent reviewer for End Point Assessment Advanced Clinical Practice (2023 to date)
• Association of Advanced Practice Educators UK - Committee member 2022 to 2026
• Member of National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE) Technology Appraisals Committee B (2016 to 2019)
• Nursing in critical care - Editorial advisor (2019 to date)
• Tuning Journal for Higher Education - Reviewer (2019 to date)
• Intensive Care journal - Reviewer (2018 to date)
• Elsevier Clinical Skills – author and editor 2013-2017