
Sharon Marie Weldon
RESUME

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President-elect - Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH)
Associate Head (Research & Knowledge Exchange) - University of Greenwich
Professor of Healthcare Simulation & Workforce Development - University of Greenwich
Lead for the Centre of Professional WorkforceDevelopment / Simulation Group - University of Greenwich
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Deputy Head (Research and Enterprise) - University of Greenwich
Reader in Nursing Research and Education - Barts Health NHS Trust / University of Greenwich
Senior Research Officer - Imperial College London
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My previous role involved developing, leading and coordinating on-going and projected research projects within our research group. This includes: Designing, creating, performing and evaluating Sequential Simulation (SqS) for education, training and public engagement activities. Academic outputs from scholarly activity; including publication in peer-reviewed journals, and presentations at national and international conferences. The development and submission of applications to grant awarding bodies including Research Councils and other major funders. Pro-active involvement in other academic activities. Teaching observational research and Sequential Simulation (SqS) on the Masters in Surgical Education course (MEd) at Imperial College London.
Research Nurse - Imperial College London
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I undertook an ethnographic research project, which required video/audio-recording communication between healthcare professionals in operating theatres. I was responsible for the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data as well as the dissemination of the findings through conferences, publications, public events, meetings, and workshops. Outside of this piece of research my role involved: creating and performing simulation based research for education, training and public engagement activities and showcasing the departments work.
Research Nurse - Health Protection Agency - Public Health England
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I recruited research participants across several London TB clinics/hospital locations and performed several TB diagnostic tests. I was responsible for the collection and management of specimen samples, and of demographic and clinical data. The data inputting, monitoring and auditing of the study.
Infectious Disease Nurse - St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London
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I was a staff nurse on a specialized infectious disease unit, undertaking specialist nursing care. I was also seconded to St. George's chest clinic to develop specialist skills as a TB nurse for 3 months and manage the clinic during staff turnover.
Paediatric Theatre Practitioner - Barts and the London NHS Trust
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Theatre practitioner in emergency and elective paediatric theatres. Covering orthopaedic, general. plastic, ocular and trauma and emergency surgery. I worked as a scrub nurse, circulating nurse and recovery nurse.
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Nurse / Lecturer - Kissizi Hospital, Uganda
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Nurse and lecturer in remote rural Uganda.
Support Worker - MaCintyre Care Charity
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Supporting people with Learning difficulties with their day-to-day living: Finances, medication, transportation, cooking, risk assessments and health planning.
Skills
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Both theoretical and practical knowledge of the application of statistical and qualitative analysis for a variety of data sets.
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Proficient with STATA, SPSS, Epi info, EpiData, Word, Powerpoint, Endnote, Sente, Atlas ti, NViVO and Inscribe software.
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Training undertaken in Epidemiology, Statistics, health economics, social research, issues in public health, organisational management, globalization and health, design and analysis of epidemiological studies, health promotion theory, epidemiology of communicable diseases, principles and practices of public health, and health care evaluation.
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Experience in research, project design and budget management.
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Public speaking skills developed through keynote presentations, media, public engagement activities, workshops, roundtable discussions and multi-disciplinary meetings.
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Broad understanding of healthcare from a variety of experiences including: clinical, academic, public health, education and research.

Languages
English
Basic French & Spanish
Education
Imperial College London, Department of Cancer & Surgery
​2013 - 2016
PhD
Preliminary Thesis Title: Systematising the design and development of sequentially simulated care pathways and health care scenarios
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
​2011 - 2013
MSc in Global Public Health
Thesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of a urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) assay test for the diagnosis of TB in HIV populations
University of Chester
​2006 - 2009
BSc in Adult Nursing
Thesis: HIV and its associated stigma