Brendan completed his nurse training as a Registered General Nurse in Birmingham in September 1989 and worked in clinical practice for 12 years across a wide variety of clinical areas including General Critical Care, Coronary Care/Cardiology, Emergency Medical Admissions, Chest Medicine, a Critical Care Unit specialising in Cardiothoracic Surgery/Neuro-Surgery/General Surgery with some exposure to paediatric cardiac surgery as well as a Cardiothoracic surgical ward where he was involved in setting up a nurse led pre-admission clinic.

Brendan then spent 18 months as a Practice Development Charge Nurse before moving into Nurse Education at Coventry University in 2002. Brendan has worked at Coventry University for over 21 years within the Faculty for Health & Life Sciences in various academic roles including Course Director to a 12 month Top Up degree BSc Nursing Studies for International Nurses, module leader to two Masters level research modules, one of these in Advanced Clinical Practice. Brendan also had an additional role for nearly 4 years as Faculty Lead for Disability & Learning Support and was previously Chair to the Community of Practice Inclusive Curriculum set up in July 2020.

Brendan also spent some time teaching on Undergraduate Nursing programmes in Hong Kong and China as part of International partnerships, course leader to the CPD Critical Care nursing course for 16 years, previously module leader to UG Acute Care Adult nursing modules and additionally set up a Critical Care Transfers module for the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance service. This module was later accessed by Critical Care and Emergency Care Military nurses as part of an academic programme at Coventry University prior to deployment to Afghanistan.

Brendan was awarded a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2018 titled 'Dyslexia in Nursing & Nurse Education - a case study and an MA in Education from Birmingham City University in 2007.

Research interests:

• dyslexia/neurodiversity in nursing/healthcare professions;
• inclusivity in HE;
• recognition of signs and symptoms of sepsis by nurses/healthcare professionals

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