Anna Romakkaniemi

is a Senior lecturer in Nursing Education. Her expertise is in paediatric nursing. During her teaching career, she has been teaching children and adolescent care. She has an keen interest transcultural issues.

Virpi Liljeström

is an Education Manager in Nursing Education. She has several years of experience of lecturing in the areas of fundamentals of nursing, gerontological nursing and in mentoring students in clinical areas. She has expertise in multicultural education, education export, and project management.

Eveliina Kivinen MSc,

is the nursing degree programme coordinator at Lahti University of Applied Sciences. Her professional expertise areas are evidence-based nursing, clinical training, mentorship, simulation education and curricula work. Her research interests include the use of simulation in education and faculty development. Since 2013, she has been involved in global education services and participated in capacity building, nursing education curriculum and clinical practice development work abroad.

Judith Benbow

Judith Benbow has a background in adult critical care nursing and has enjoyed a variety of clinical and educational roles. Judith is currently Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Healthcare Sciences and Royal College of Nursing Wales PhD Research Fellow.

Clare Hawker

Clare Hawker is a Lecturer in Adult nursing and Director of Technology in the School of Health Sciences, Cardiff University. She has a clinical background in medical nursing, specifically general medicine, gastroenterology and cardiology. She has a special interest in the development and use of simulation and technology in nurse education.

Susan Ward

Sue Ward is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Nursing School of Health Sciences, Cardiff University. Sues clinical background is acute cardiac care, but her career been in higher education for many years. During this time Sue has undertaken a variety of roles and has been involved in arrange of educational projects.

Roberta Sammut

Roberta Sammut is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Malta. She lectures on research methods, systematic reviewing and diabetes care on postgraduate programmes within the Faculty of Health Sciences. She has a particular interest in simulation practice and diabetes care.

Teija Franck

Franck Teija is a Senior Lecturer and clinical nurse educator in Turku University of Applied Sciences. Her clinical background is in surgical and internal diseases care. Her education scopes in research, development and innovation work and simulation pedagogy. She is PhD student in Turku University and her research focuses on professional competence.

Cristina Niro

Cristina Niro has worked in various clinical areas since 1997. She is a graduate in obstetric nurse management and practices full time in the clinical area to-date. She is responsible for nursing students’ learning in her area of practice and has a keen interest in the use of simulation in nurse education.

Kirsti Virta

Kirsti Virta is a Senior Lecturer at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Finland. She has been involved in nurse education since 1992 and her main are of interest are medical nursing, nurse documentation. She has a keen interest in the use of simulation in education and is chair of Health and Welfare Simulation group alongside her commitments as clinical teacher.

Laura Massini

Laura Massini is an A&E nurse manager and has been working across various clinical fields since 1996. Graduated nurse in 1995, started working in 1996 (Maternity Department at the beginning but from 2000 up to now A&E Department). She is also a graduate biologist. She has a keen interest in nurse education in clinical practice areas.

Mariama Seray-Wurie

Mariama Serary-Wurie is a Senior academic in Adult Nursing and is involved in interprofessional learning across mental mealth and Children and Young People’s (CYP) nursing programmes. Her main teaching and learning interests include curriculum development, use of simulation pedagogy, student engagement and progression. She is the institutional link to a number of hospital and hospital services in the area. Further teaching and research interests include Erasmus exchange, collaborative working partnerships with other stake holders, mentorship, equality, diversity and inclusivity within healthcare practice and nurse education.

Kari Arntzen

Kari Arntzen is assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Oslo Metropolitan University. Her main responsibility is connected to running the simulation unit at the department. She is also a member of the research group Learning and Collaboration. Arntzen has been both the main author – and coauthor of four books on practical skills and first aid. Arntzen has long experience as a teacher related to training in practical skills and simulation. She has been responsible for developing different courses in simulation – both CPR, first aid and trauma treatment.

Alison clancy

Alison Clancy is currently an Assistant professor at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, UCD. During her time in UCD, she has been successful in the implementation of several successful teaching and learning strategies including Problem Based and Enquiry Based Learning sand simulation. Her professional interested include curriculum design, development and implementation at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in UCD and classical Grounded Theory in research.

Justin Lee Mifsud

Justin Lee Mifsud holds a lecturing position at University of Malta. He is pursuing PhD studies in preventive cardiology and has completed a Masters degree in Preventive Cardiology, Imperial College London and a Diploma in HR & Personal management with a distinction from Cambridge College. His broad research interest is in preventive cardiology with a focus on risk communication, motivation and behaviour.

Kaisu Paalanen

Kaisu Paalanen is a senior lecturer at School of Health and Social Studies, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland. Her expertise is Medical Nursing Practice, Clinical Nursing Skills and Critical Care Nursing. She is currently largely committed to the field of RDI.

Lakanmaa Riitta-Liisa

Lakanmaa Riitta-Liisa is the Head of Education and Research of Department in Nursing area, in Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS). Her clinical background is in critical care and perioperative nursing and her education scopes are e.g. intensive and critical care nursing, perioperative nursing care, medication care, research, development and innovation work and simulation pedagogy. Her personal research interest is in intensive and critical care nursing education and competence assessment, in all kind of nursing didactics and in serious educational game development and evaluation in health care.

Maria Cassar

Maria Cassar is the Head of the Department of Nursing, University of Malta. She worked in various clinical settings across different countries prior to taking up commitments in higher education. Her main interests include curriculum development, internationalisation in higher education and the use of technology and simulation in teaching and learning.

Mirja Ojala

Mirja Ojala is a senior lecturer at the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences. She worked as nurse practitioner for several years. She has a keen interest in the development of nurse education including the use of simulation in teaching and learning.

Leena Seriola

Leena Seriola is a senior lecturer at School of Health and Social Studies, JAMK University of Applied Sciences. Her expertise is in Nursing in Public Health Problems, Medical Nursing Practice, Evidence based Nursing and Critical Care Nursing. Seriola is also working as a Pedagogical mentor in JAMK and assists colleagues with developing digital competence related to the use of blended learning methods and building eLearning environments. to combine their digital skills and pedagogy.

Sezer Kisa

Sezer Kisa is a Professor (Associate) at the department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). She has twenty-four years of teaching across nursing programmes ranging at all academic levels and is involved in collaborative initiatives in different European countries and the US. Her research interests lie in the area of nursing education, public health and women’s health issues.

Helene Margrethe Storebø Opheim

Helene Margrethe Storebø Opheim is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Nursinge and Health Promotion, Oslo Metropolitan University. Her main responsibility is running the simulation unit at the department. Helene is also part of the research group on Learning and Collaboration. She has a long experience as a teacher related to training in practical skills and simulation and has been responsible for developing different courses using simulation across many clinical areas of practice.

Siobhan Brereton

Siobhan Brereton is a Clinical Tutor/Special Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Ireland. Siobhan has a vast experience in clinical nurse practice. In her role at the UCD
she contributes to curriculum development, design and delivery of programmes and works closely with clinical partners to support student learning. She has and interest in developing support for students with disabilities both academically and clinically.