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Last updated 20th March 2026

Precious joined the University of Huddersfield in January 2021 as a Lecturer in Adult Nursing (full-time). In March 2022, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing. In April 2023, he was appointed the International Lead for the Department of Nursing. He has also been serving as an inaugural Co-Chair of the Black Staff Affinity Group within the Race Equity Staff Network (formerly BAME Staff Network) at the University of Huddersfield since January 2025.

Internationally, he holds an appointment as a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, West Africa, where he contributes to advancing nursing education and cross-institutional collaboration between the UK and Ghana.

Nationally, Precious has been appointed as the President‑Elect of the Phi Mu Chapter (England) of the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. He is honoured to serve in this leadership capacity and grateful for the confidence placed in him. In this role, he looks forward to working closely with the Chapter President, Board, and wider membership to strengthen visibility, scholarly engagement, and a strong sense of belonging within the community. His priorities include advancing Sigma’s mission by fostering collaboration, leadership development, and meaningful opportunities for nurses at every stage of their professional journey. He will assume the role of Chapter President in July 2027. He also serves as a Member of the Research Committee of the Phi Mu Chapter, supporting global nursing scholarship.

In his current multifaceted role at the University of Huddersfield, he serves in different capacities, including as a Module Leader (providing leadership to ensure the modules are effectively organised and delivered in line with the approved module specifications and learning outcomes). He currently leads four modules across undergraduate (BSc) and postgraduate (MSc) nursing programmes. These include two cross-field BSc Nursing modules (Practice 5 and Practice 6) as well as two MSc Nursing (Pre-registration) modules: Introduction to Adult Nursing, and Developing Research Knowledge and Evidence for Adult Nursing Practice. Also, he serves as an Admissions Tutor for Nursing (being instrumental in student recruitment efforts through open days and admissions interviews) and a Personal Academic Tutor (providing pastoral support to many students). 

As the International Lead for Nursing, he serves as the initial point of contact within the Department for internationalisation issues, including fostering partnerships between his university and other international institutions. He also provides Department-wide leadership in innovative student support, curriculum development, and teaching and learning initiatives that promote internationalisation (across all fields and cohorts for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels). Furthermore, he supports the international student journey from beginning to becoming an alumnus (through webinars for international applicants, training for recruitment agents, admissions interviews, overseas visits, inductions, and tailored support for international students, among others). In addition, he makes a significant contribution to enhancing the international profile and ranking of the Department and the University through various avenues, including mobilising international collaborators to contribute to surveys conducted by institutions such as the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE) World and Subject Rankings.

As Co-Chair of the Black Staff Affinity Group, he is dedicated to fostering a sense of community, amplifying the voices of underrepresented individuals, and championing equitable opportunities, thereby driving meaningful cultural change and making significant contributions to the university’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) targets. 

In recognition of his expertise, Precious is a Member of the national Black and Minority Ethnic Strategic Advisory Group (BAME SAG) for the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and the Chief Midwifery Officer (CMidO), NHS England, to contribute to inclusive policy and racial equity in healthcare. 

Furthermore, he has successfully completed the viva for his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing at the University of Huddersfield. The PhD thesis was titled "Dietary self-care among persons living with type 2 diabetes in Ghana: A concurrent mixed-method study". This was funded through the Staff Development and Strategic Research Investment Funding, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield. He holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) with Distinction from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, which was fully funded through the prestigious Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (jointly funded by the University of Aberdeen and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission). He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (First Class Honours) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. In addition, He is a Fellow of the Advance HE (FHEA) [formerly known as the Higher Education Academy, UK] as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH) in the UK.

Before joining the University of Huddersfield, he practised as a Registered Nurse (Adult) certified by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in the UK. He worked in the Acute Stroke Unit of East Surrey Hospital, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare (SASH) NHS Trust, Redhill, Surrey, UK. While in Ghana, Precious was a Registered General Nurse (RGN) certified by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC) of Ghana and worked with a few health facilities in the Ashanti Region (especially in Kumasi and Ejisu) as well as offered community health services in rural Ghana (both voluntarily and as part of his nursing role). Subsequently, he joined the Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC), Dadiesoaba in the Ahafo Region of Ghana as a full-time Nursing/Health Tutor, after a part-time teaching experience at a now-defunct private health training institution.

Precious is an interdisciplinary researcher with excellent collaborative skills and thrives on opportunities to generate and translate evidence that informs policy, education, and practice. He has successfully collaborated, and continues to do so, with researchers and institutions across both academic and non-academic sectors in developed and developing countries to deliver impact-oriented, interdisciplinary, and globally relevant research. He has a growing publication record and an emerging h-index that reflect his scholarly impact and expanding international reputation.

Over 70% of his 50+ publications are in Q1 journals, demonstrating sustained publication in the highest-impact outlets internationally and evidencing the quality, rigour, global reach, and policy- and practice-relevance of his scholarship.

Drawing on his strong foundations in nursing and public health, his research bridges nursing education, regulation, and global health, with a strong commitment to equity and the contextualisation of care in diverse cultural settings. Through this work, he aims to strengthen health systems, professional standards, and population health outcomes across low-, middle-, and high-income contexts.

To this end, his broad areas of research expertise and interest include:

1. Nursing education, professional regulation, and workforce development, including internationalisation, anti-racist and socially just pedagogies, continuing professional development (CPD), and the global mobility, integration, and retention of nurses. His work in this area also explores equitable governance structures that enhance competence, professional identity, and leadership capacity across health systems.
2. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and dementia, with a focus on self-care, family caregiving, health literacy, and public health nutrition and diet as key determinants of disease prevention and management.
3. Health systems strengthening and implementation research emphasising participatory, co-produced, community-based, and policy-engaged approaches, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

He has methodological experience in conducting quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, multi-methods (including the Delphi and nominal group techniques), and systematic, scoping, and integrative reviews.

His current portfolio includes multi-country collaborative projects in Ghana, Nepal, and India, participatory workshops linking research to policy, and impact-driven knowledge mobilisation activities aligned with the University of Huddersfield’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 ambitions.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Ongoing projects

1. Co-Investigator (Co-I): A multi-country longitudinal cohort study on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Global South: A programme to generate income, outputs, and impact (project set up in Ghana, Nepal, and India).  This project aims to track the prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of NCDs. There are multiple fund contributors, including the University of Huddersfield's Research Fund/Fellowship (URF). This project includes collaborators from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Ghana, India, and Nepal, among others. 

Recently completed projects

1. Principal Investigator (PI): Co-creating dementia care solutions in Ghana through participatory research and knowledge mobilisation. This produced practical solutions, including a peer-reviewed article on the co-creation workshop and a dementia policy brief. This project is funded through the School Rapid Research Support Fund, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK. 

2. Principal Investigator (PI): From research to action: A participatory workshop on dietary self-care in diabetes in Ghana. This generated actionable solutions, including a diabetes policy brief. This project is funded through the School Rapid Research Support Fund, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK.

3. Co-Investigator (Co-I): Strengthening the ability of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC) of Ghana to oversee and regulate the professional register of nurses and midwives to ensure high-quality care. This project is funded through the Global Health Workforce Programme, which is funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care, via the Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET (now known as Global Health Partnerships), for the benefit of the UK and partner country health sectors. This supported the N&MC Ghana in introducing a national revalidation for nurses and midwives, a first in a low- or middle-income country, with national implementation set for 2026.

4. Co-Investigator (Co-I): Migration motivation and transition experiences of African migrant nurses working in Europe (including the UK), Americas (USA and Canada), and Australasia (Australia and New Zealand): A mixed-method study – funded by the 2022 Sigma Small Grants, Sigma Foundation for Nursing, and the Hong Kong University Grants Commission. The preliminary results have been widely disseminated, including at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress 2025, Helsinki, Finland.

5. Principal Investigator (PI): Prevalence, predictors, and experiences of people living with dementia in Ghana - funded by the Strategic Research Investment Seed Funding, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK. This led to three peer-reviewed publications as well as the above-stated high-level, multi-stakeholder workshop to co-create solutions for dementia care in Ghana, resulting in a dementia policy brief and a peer-reviewed article on the co-creation workshop.

6. Co-Investigator (Co-I): Experiences of international nurses and their integration into the NHS (cohort case study) - funded by NHS England. These outputs have informed national resources such as the updated 2025 NHS Employers' International Retention Toolkit.

7. Co-Investigator (Co-I): International nursing models and their relation to the learning needs of international nurses working in the NHS (Nursing models and educational toolkit) - funded by NHS England. This project led to the development of a transitional toolkit for international nurses.

8. Co-Investigator (Co-I): Assessment of nursing and midwifery teaching in Ghana - funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care through the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET). This project was jointly executed by the University of Huddersfield and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). This, along with the two projects below, culminated in the larger project above, which led to the revalidation policy for nurses and midwives in Ghana.

9. Co-Investigator (Co-I): Review of nursing regulation: licensing and relicensing in Ghana - funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care through the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET). This project was jointly executed by the University of Huddersfield and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).

10. Co-Investigator (Co-I): Strengthening the regulatory capacity of Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC) of Ghana: reflection and revalidation - funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care through the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET). This project was jointly executed by the University of Huddersfield and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions
1. Co-supervisor (MPhil Nursing): Exploring the experiences of informal caregivers of people living with diabetes mellitus and seeking care at Suntreso Government Hospital – Linda Yeboah, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana (February 2026 – Present).

2. Main Supervisor (MSc by Research in Public Health): Antimicrobial resistance in the UK: A public health challenge and policy solutions – Zoha Mehmood, Department of Allied Health, Sport, and Exercise, University of Huddersfield, UK (01 October 2025 – Present).

3. Co-supervisor (MSc by Research in Public Health): UK women's perceptions of cervical cancer risk in response to changes in screening frequency: A qualitative study – Shakirah Aloba, Department of Allied Health, Sport, and Exercise, University of Huddersfield, UK (01 October 2025 – Present).

4. Co-supervisor (MPhil Nursing): Caring for stroke survivors in Ghana: the experiences of informal caregivers in the Upper East Region – Ebenezer Baba Asore, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana (January 2023 – November 2025).