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Dr Jackie Knight

Dr Jackie Knight (PhD, MSc (Ed), MSc Healthcare Leadership and Management, BSc (Hons) Health Studies, SFHEA)

Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
E: J.Knight@bsms.ac.uk
T: 01273 641541
Location: Room 344b Watson Building, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH

Areas of expertise: Health Care and Medical Education, Mental Health and Psychiatric Practice, Work force and Organisational Development, Continuing professional development and Digital learning in practice.

Research interests: Professional learning and work, reflective practice, and change management.

Other relevant positions: Academic Development Lead for curriculum assurance across the department’s postgraduate programme offer. External examiner and Critical reviewer for RCNI and Academic Psychiatry Journal.

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Biography

Jackie joined BSMS with prior experience for successful delivery on large-scale change management projects at a local, national, and international level. Jackie has worked in multi-disciplinary contexts across her academic and clinical career actively managing new workforce roles, developing curricula, and establishing sustainable partnerships across geographical sectors. To achieve this objective, all health professionals, regardless of their discipline, need to practice collaboratively and essentially to champion both inter-professional and intra-professional learning opportunities.

Jackie has driven an increase in continuing professional development programmes in key sectors of education health, social care, and medicine. Incorporating student-centred learning strategies, the needs of patients and creating interprofessional learning networks have enhanced the content of interprofessional curricula. Previous roles include: Director of Mental Health Development; Head of Mental Health and Organisational Development; National Development Consultant for Primary Mental Health Care (South East), Erasmus and International lead. Jackie is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and her clinical expertise are within psychiatric and mental health practice.

Jackie is also a Development Professional Coach with a portfolio of career interests spanning healthcare, charity, academic and educational institutions. Her clients include leading organisations such as local government, the NHS, academic and educational institutions. Jackie focuses on improving the organisational performance of individuals – especially at senior levels – to enable them to be more ambitious for the quality of their offer to customers, staff and organisations.

PhD studies are in developing a change management theoretical framework through reflection: A mental health perspective.

Research

Programme Director-BSMS-NHS England, SE-KSS, Multi-professional Simulation Fellowship programme (2022 -present).

Programme Director-BSMS-HEE, KSS, Multi-professional Fellowship programme (2020 - present).

Principal Academic Lead- BSMS-HEE, KSS, Steps for Success: Developing Professional Excellence programme (2018-2021).

Principal Academic Lead- Department of Postgraduate Medicine - Dental Implant Surgery Module (2019-).

Principal Investigator – West Herts Leadership Academy (external accreditation, University Hertfordshire, 2016-2017).

Principal Investigator – Validation, awarding the recognition of University to an NHS Trust (2016-2017).

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Teaching

Jackie is Programme Director for the Multi-professional Fellowship Programme, BSMS together with NHS England SE-KSS. She is also a senior lecturer in multi-professional development and practice. Jackie leads on course design, offers tutorials and dissertation supervision at masters and PhD level and leads on curriculum development.

Key scholarship interests are:

Health and Medical Education
Reflective Practice
Advanced Communication
Mental Health Practice
Service Improvement
Change management
Practice Development

Selected publications

Yang, Hannah, Higham, Helen, Knight, Jackie, Prabhu, Anil, Savjani, Kapil, Shiels, Sally-Anne (2023). A90Virtual Reality Simulation for the Foundation Programme – Analysis of Phase Two: International Journal of Healthcare Simulation, 3, no. Supplement 1, 10.54531/OGUG1238.

Ramunno, B, Rabe, H, and Knight, JL (2023) Implementing ‘parent drop-ins’ at TMBU: scaling up family-integrated care, Available on-line: Implementing ‘parent drop-ins’ at TMBU: scaling up family-integrated care | Article | Infant journal

Roshni Khatri, Jackie Knight & Iain Wilkinson (2019) Threshold concepts: A portal into new ways of thinking and practising in psychiatry, Medical Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1670338

Acciavatti, T, Lupi, M, Cinosi, M. Knight, J, Brennan, M, Corbo, M and Di Giannantonio, M: Sudden Cardiac Death Linked to Antipsychotics: Are We Really Preventing? 2016 July-September; 3(3): 74–76. ISSN: 2421-3349 Published online 2016 April 26.

Ashaye, K & Knight, J.L, “Psychiatric Trainees’ views on Integrating a Psychiatric Training Course into a University Postgraduate Degree Programme,” (Academic psychiatry 37 (4), 285a -287, 2013).

Hawley, C, Drummond, L & Knight JL, “The Trouble with NHS Psychiatry in England: Critique,” (2009) in British Journal of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Bulletin: June, 2009.

SELECTED CONFERENCES

Knight JL “Sustaining Simulation Multi-professional Fellowship Development through Transformative Practice”. Canterbury Christchurch University, May 2023

Natalia Czub, Knight JL, Moorhouse K, & Stoner N, “Designing a Digital Learning Hub for a Cancer Pharmacy Team” (Poster Prize: Highly Recommended), Canterbury Christchurch University, May 2023

Knight JL “Interprofessional Working, Advanced Communication and Collaboration, Pakistan, February 2023