Dr Louise Hoyle

Senior Lecturer in Nursing

Health Sciences Stirling Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport University of Stirling E17 Pathfoot Building Stirling FK9 4LA

Dr Louise Hoyle

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About me

About me

I am a Senior Lecturer of Nursing at The University of Stirling. I have a nursing degree with Honours from the University of Liverpool, which allowed me to qualify as a registered Adult Nurse in 2004. Post qualifying, I have practiced as a registered nurse within emergency medicine. I returned to academia in 2007 and undertook two MSc’s – one in applied social research and one in criminology before going on to complete a PhD at The University of Stirling in 2011. I have completed a postgraduate certificate in teaching & learning in higher education and I am a recognised teacher with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include: workplace violence & aggression, the working conditions of nurses, the health and wellbeing of nursing workforce, and health reporting in the media. I have methodological expertise in qualitative methods, using a range of research designs including: thematic qualitative analysis secondary analysis of both qualitative data and media analysis.

Award

Scottish Crucible Leadership and Development Programme
Scottish Crucible

One of 30 future research leaders competitively selected three intensive two-day workshops


Community Contribution

STEM at the Helix

A locally-led partnership project between Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Council, DYW Forth Valley and Forth Valley College that celebrated and encouraged Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning amongst pupils in S1. Running of nursing workshops delivered outside of the classroom at Helix park to over S1 pupils in Falkirk.

Nuffield Foundation Project Provider and Supervisor for Intern students
The Nuffield Foundation

STEM at the Helix in Falkirk

A locally-led partnership project between Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Council, DYW Forth Valley and Forth Valley College that celebrated and encouraged Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning amongst pupils in S1. This involved 2 days of workshops delivered outside of the classroom at Helix park to over 300 S1 pupils in Falkirk, as well as a public day for the wider community which attracted around 5000 people. I provided nursing workshops for school children and visitors across two days.


Divisional / Faculty Contribution

Academic Assessor
University of Stirling
Academic assessor for students who are training to be qualified nurses.

Athena Swan Member
Member of the Faculty Athena Swan Group

Immediate Life Support Instructor
Resuscitation Council (UK)
I have completed the ILS instructor Course

Personal Tutor
Personal Tutor for student nurses on the BSc Nursing/BSc Nursing (Hons) Adult programmes (across the 4years)

Thread Lead - Research
Thread lead to ensure research is embedded into the modules effectively across the BSc Nursing undergraduate curriculum

Year 4 Lead for BSc Nursing Programme
Leadership role in the Faculty. I am the Year Lead for the 4th year nursing students on the BSc nursing programmes.


Event / Presentation

Supporting health and wellbeing in health care employees: a documentary review of policies, strategies & frameworks

Conference Presentation at HEPA conference

Discover Digital Event , The Alliance

Presenter: Discover Digital Event , The Alliance (Glasgow) October 2019 ‘ Talking Health and Housing’, in collaboration with Talking Mats

Talking Health and Housing, Stakeholder Presentation

Presenter: Talking Health and Housing, Stakeholder Presentation (Glasgow) January 2018 ‘talking technology enabled care - A personalised, visual, digital platform to transform health, social care and housing services’ Innovate UK funded


External Examiners and Validations

External Examiner University of Huddersfield
University of Huddersfield

Acted at external examiner for a range of undergraduate nursing modules at The University of Huddersfield.


Professional membership

Member - Resuscitation Council (UK)
Resuscitation Council (UK)
Membership to Resuscitation Council (UK)

Royal College of Nursing membership
Royal College of Nursing (UK)
Member, Royal College of Nursing. Also Forum member: Education forum, Emergency care association, History of nursing Research society. Professional Network member: Quality improvement.

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Higher Education Academy


Professional qualification

Registered Nurse - Adult
Nursing and Midwifery Council

Registered Nurse (adult) with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Nursing and Midwifery Council

SEDA accreditation: Learning Teaching and Assessing

SEDA accreditation: Supervising Postgraduate Research

Teacher (qualification) with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Recordable qualification of Teacher with the NMC


University Contribution

SELTE mentor
SELTE Mentor: for staff applying for fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE) (Fellow and Senior Fellow)


Research (1)

My research interest include: working conditions of the nursing workforce; health and wellbeing of the nursing workforce; health reporting in the media; street-level bureaucracy; integrated health and social care and health policy.'

I have a keen interest in research methods and have methodological expertise in qualitative methods, using a range of research designs including: thematic qualitative analysis, secondary analysis of qualitative data and media analysis.

Projects

Perspectives of older couples with a learning disability when one partner has dementia: identifying support needs of carer dyads.
PI: Professor Karen Watchman
Funded by: The Dunhill Medical Trust

Outputs (22)

Outputs

Article

Brown M, Hoyle L & Karatzias T (2016) The experiences of family carers in the delivery of invasive clinical interventions for young people with complex intellectual disabilities: policy disconnect or policy opportunity?. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25 (3-4), pp. 534-542. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13090


Teaching

Teaching

I have expertise in research-led teaching delivered across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at home and internationally, specifically around research methods/evidence-based practice, clinical skills (including CPR training), academic argument/writing, and health & social care integration.

Teaching

Dissertation Supervisor - BSc Nursing Honours Programme
Dissertation Supervisor - BSc Nursing Honours Course (Module SHSU017)

Module Co-ordinator NURP001
Skills of Knowledge enquiry module on the MRes programme.

Module Co-ordinator SHSU024
University of Stirling
Module co-ordinator for a module on LTCs and self management on the BSc nursing programme (adult & Mental health)

NURP027 - Project Supervisor
Project Supervisor on NURP027 Research project module on the MSc Public Health

Staff member NURPD04
University of Stirling
Involved in the module NURPD04 in relation to expert practice Viva's

Staff member on SHSU035/SHSU036
University of Stirling
Involved in teaching for the research and dissertation modules for Year 4 honours programme (BSc Nursing)