Jacqueline Leigh

Professor Jacqueline (Jackie) Leigh is Director of Nursing & Midwifery Education at Edge Hill University. She is a Registered General Nurse, Adult field, and having worked as a senior nurse in healthcare organisations across Greater Manchester, she moved into higher education initially as a Lecturer Practitioner and progressing to become Professor of Nurse Education Practice at the University of Salford.

An advocate for evidence-based education, Jackie has significant experience in developing and evaluating innovative approaches to teaching and learning that meets workforce needs in nursing, health, and social care. She is also highly experienced in curriculum development and postgraduate programme leadership.

As an Executive Coach she particularly enjoys supporting individuals to learn and develop and reach their full potential. Jackie is an active editorial board member of British Journal of Nursing and frequently publishes papers on the subject of nurse education practice. She is co-lead of the national Personalised Care Interprofessional Education (PerCIE) Framework that guides and supports health and social care students to learn about strengths-based approaches to health and wellbeing delivered by services that provide a social prescribing offer.