Dr Liz King

Professional biography

Liz qualified as an RN (Child) in 2000 and has since gained copious experience of caring for children, young people and their families.

Liz's clinical nursing career includes paediatric cardio-respiratory, oncology, infectious diseases, spinal and general nursing care in ward, HDU and PICU areas in the NHS and Private healthcare settings. 

Liz has been involved with pre and post registration nurse education throughout her career in both clinical settings and in universities as a nurse academic.

Liz has 13 years of experience working in the Higher Education sector and has held the roles of module lead, year/cohort lead, Fitness to Practice Investigator, programme lead, BSc and MSc dissertation/Prof Doc thesis supervisor and ethics panel membership. 

As an OU Lecturer, Liz is involved with production of nursing modules and teaches various master classes for OU pre and post registration nursing learners regarding research processes and childrens nursing related topics. Liz is the Module Chair for the K*104 module- Introduction To Healthcare Practice. 

Within the OU, Liz is a member of the Student Research Project Panel and is an HWSC Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility Champion. 

Nursing/Education Qualifications:

Doctor of Education (EdD) - University College London

MSc Advanced Nursing Practice (Education)- Kings College London

BSc (Hons) Childrens Nursing- Kings College London

DipHE Childrens Nursing- University of Surrey

NMC Registered Nurse (Child) 

NMC Registered Nurse Teacher 

NMC Nurse Mentorship qualification 

Research interests

My main research interests include reasonable adjustments for student nurse learning in clinical placement, and aspects of childrens nursing and nurse education.

I enjoy co-authoring publications with fellow academics, nurses and student nurses. 

My recent OU Praxis research project explored "Practice Tutors’ views on their readiness for supporting OU pre-registration nursing students who require reasonable adjustments for clinical placement". 

I also have a live Open Societal Challenge called "Improving the recruitment, retention, and levels of support for nurses requiring reasonable adjustments for learning in clinical practice settings".

External collaborations

I am the Chair and Founder of the RAINE forum (Reasonable Adjustments In Nursing Education). 

I am an External Examiner for the University of Bedfordshire for their Nursing Associate programme.

I work with the SAGE Journal of Child Health Care as an Associate Editor and lead on the journal's regular podcasts.

I am a peer reviewer for Science Talks, Widening Participation & Lifelong Learning, Nurse Education Today, Nursing Children & Young People and Nursing Management journals. 

I also engage in external research consultancy, most recently with University College London as a nursing expert on paediatric consent to cardiac surgery. 

I am also a Research Ethics Committee member (Expert) for the NHS Health Research Authority.

I am a member of the Healthcare Educational Research and Evaluation (HERE) network.