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Dr Jackie Knight

Dr Jackie Knight (PhD, MSc (Ed), MSc Healthcare Leadership and Management, BSc (Hons) Health Studies, SFHEA)

Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
E: J.Knight@bsms.ac.uk
T: 01273 641541
Location: Room 344b Watson Building, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH

Areas of expertise: Health Care and Medical Education, Mental Health and Psychiatric Practice, Work force and Organisational Development, Continuing professional development and Digital learning in practice.

Research interests: Professional learning and work, reflective practice, and change management.

Other relevant positions: Academic Development Lead for curriculum assurance across the department’s postgraduate programme offer. External examiner and Critical reviewer for RCNI and Academic Psychiatry Journal.

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Biography

Jackie joined BSMS with prior experience for successful delivery on large-scale change management projects at a local, national, and international level. Jackie has worked in multi-disciplinary contexts across her academic and clinical career actively managing new workforce roles, developing curricula, and establishing sustainable partnerships across geographical sectors. To achieve this objective, all health professionals, regardless of their discipline, need to practice collaboratively and essentially to champion both inter-professional and intra-professional learning opportunities. Jackie has driven an increase in continuing professional development programmes in key sectors of education health, social care, and medicine. Incorporating student-centred learning strategies, the needs of patients and creating interprofessional learning networks have enhanced the content of interprofessional curricula. Jackie's previous roles include: Director of Mental Health Development; Head of Mental Health and Organisational Development; National Development Consultant for Primary Mental Health Care (South East), Erasmus and International lead. Jackie is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and her clinical expertise are within psychiatric and mental health practice.

PhD studies are in developing a change management theoretical framework through reflection: A mental health perspective.

Research

Principal Investigator – Report on Staff Bullying for a Foundation University Trust, NHS (University Hertfordshire, 2014).

Principal Investigator – Evaluation of Primary Care Mental Health Services Project for Camden and Islington, CCG (University Hertfordshire, 2015-2016).

Principal Investigator – Clinical Supervision Workshops (University Hertfordshire, 2015-2017).

Principal Investigator – Scoping exercise on the use of “simulation for educational programmes” in the School of Life and Medical Sciences and to expand on this model for wider educational delivery (Annecy, France, 2016).

Principal Investigator – West Herts Leadership Academy (external accreditation, University Hertfordshire, 2016-2017).

Principal Investigator – Validation, awarding the recognition of University to a NHS Trust (2016-2017).

Principal Investigator – Blended Learning CPD for Speciality Doctors and Locally Employed Doctors (University of Sussex, 2018).

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Teaching

Jackie is Programme Director for the Multi-professional Fellowship Programme, BSMS HEE-KSS together with SIM-TEL, South East, Health Education England.

She is also a senior lecturer and leads on course design, offers tutorials and dissertation supervision at masters and PhD level and leads on curriculum development.

Key scholarship interests are:

Health and Medical Education
Reflective Practice
Advanced Communication
Mental Health Practice
Service Improvement
Change management
Practice Development

Selected publications

Roshni Khatri, Jackie Knight & Iain Wilkinson (2019)Threshold concepts: A portal into new ways of thinking and practising in psychiatry, Medical Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1670338

Acciavatti, T, Lupi, M, Cinosi, M. Knight, J, Brennan, M, Corbo, M and Di Giannantonio, M: Sudden Cardiac Death Linked to Antipsychotics: Are We Really Preventing? 2016 July-September; 3(3): 74–76. ISSN: 2421-3349 Published online 2016 April 26.

Ashaye, K & Knight, J.L, “Psychiatric Trainees’ views on Integrating a Psychiatric Training Course into a University Postgraduate Degree Programme,” (Academic psychiatry 37 (4), 285a -287, 2013).

Hawley, C, Drummond, L & Knight JL, “The Trouble with NHS Psychiatry in England: Critique,” (2009) in British Journal of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Bulletin: June, 2009.