About
Dr Chris Allen is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the School of Health Science and leads the Adult Nursing team. Chris is a highly experienced academic and healthcare professional with over 18 years of experience in clinical, education, and research roles. His current role involves strategic and operational leadership of a suite of Adult Nursing Programmes. Chris has experience of regulatory approval and processes (including with the NMC and QAA), as well as recruitment, talent attraction, workload planning, staff wellbeing, and academic development. He is currently the programme lead for the BSc Adult Nursing, MN Adult/Child Nursing, and MSc Adult Nursing programmes.
Chris is also a mixed methods researcher with a background in Nursing and Social Sciences, particularly Gerontology. Chris has an interest in Social Networks, Health, Wellbeing and Support, Teamwork, Leadership and Digital Health. His current research looks at social support and education. Chris recently edited and authored a textbook, which has now been published and serves as an introdcory text to many of these aspects of the social sciences, to a particular audience of student healthcare professionals.
Chris completed his NIHR CLAHRC Wessex funded PhD as a Clinical Academic Doctoral Research Fellow at the University. His PhD research looked at the role of online ties in supporting long-term condition self-management.
Chris’s clinical background is in nursing, where has a range of experiences including working in the community for a rapid response team and the community pulmonary rehabilitation team, working in acute care in acute medicine for older people and the emergency department settings and working in clinical research as a research nurse. Chris also has experience in clinical education.