Ms Faith Manyema-Nicol

I joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 2012 after working in various clinical maternity settings in London, where I took on roles in practice leadership and development. Over the years, I've served as cohort leader, personal tutor, and link lecturer for practice, offering support to students both at the university and during placements. My contributions have also included recruitment, assessment, and representing on the Service User Committee. I’ve been actively involved in clinical skills and simulation teaching, working with the faculty simulation team to focus on scenario-writing and interprofessional learning. My academic interests are centered on maternal and neonatal care, both nationally and globally. I've led modules on the Care of the Baby with Complex Needs and the Examination of the Newborn at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I'm deeply committed to building partnerships in education and research, with a goal of improving maternal and neonatal care and healthcare delivery more broadly.

My primary teaching areas include midwifery, emergency and high-risk maternal and newborn care, and newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE). I also teach healthcare clinical skills and simulation, alongside research knowledge and clinical sciences. I am an approved instructor in Newborn Life Support (NLS) and have experience in Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO-UK).

My research career began in 2012, with a small-scale project evaluating the use of the university’s skills lab for midwifery education. The findings from this project were presented at the NET (Networking for Education in Healthcare) conference. I have led a funded project focused on neonatal care in a developing country and am actively involved in healthcare partnerships. My current research focus is on developing interventions to improve neonatal mortality outcomes in low-resource settings. I have submitted my PhD thesis, which explores credibility and academic health professionals, and I am eager to expand my research, particularly in areas that contribute to professional knowledge, collaborative working, and enhancing healthcare practice.

Since 2010, I have been an instructor with the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) and Newborn Life Support (NLS) faculties, providing training for healthcare professionals in the UK, Ireland, and Wales. More recently, I have undertaken funded work on neonatal resuscitation training for paediatric nurses and conducted a scoping study on neonatal care in a developing country. In 2016, I was recognised by the British Journal of Midwifery for my work in promoting neonatal care. I also presented research from my PhD at the 2018 conference in Manchester and continue to pursue collaborative opportunities with healthcare professionals.