Rona Ellis

r.m.ellis@hud.ac.uk | 01484 473478

Biography

Registered General Nurse 1981
Registered Midwife 1983
Registered Health Visitor 1986
Community Practice teacher 1990
16 years experience working in the NHS as a nurse, midwife and health visitor
4 years experience as a Non executive director within an NHS Mental Health Trust

Teaching & Academic Responsibilities

Modules include

HFN 1006 Health and Health Promotion
HHN 1008 Health policies and Nursing Agendas within Integrated services
HIN 1029 Health Policy and its Impact on Service Delivery
HMH 1036 Health Needs Assessment

Penfield Virtual hospital project
School Board
Community bias project

Research & Scholarship

Childhood nutrition

Publications and Other Research Outputs

2009

Finn, V. and Ellis, R. (2009) ‘Media Review: Curry, L., Shield, R., & Wetle, T. (2006). Improving Aging and Public Health Research: Qualitative and Mixed Methods. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association and the Gerontological Society of America’ Journal of Mixed Methods Research , 3 (4), pp. 414-415. ISSN 1558-6898

2007

Ellis, R. and Ellis, R. (2007) ‘Impact of a traffic light nutrition tool in a primary school’ The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health , 127 (1), pp. 13-21. ISSN 1466-4240

Research Degree Supervision

Childhood nutrition- my main interest is in evaluating health promotion activities in school settings

Developing and extending community/Primary care experience for pre-registration nurses. I am currently lead researcher for the Community bias pilot and project lead for Primary Ambitions Nursing project.