Dr Warren Gillibrand RN, MSc. PGCE, PhD, FHEA, PGCHEP, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nursing & Midwifery, and is the Deputy Director of Graduate Education (Health). He joined the University of Huddersfield in 2008. He has worked predominantly in clinical and academic diabetes research/ teaching teams, and published on retinopathy screening, nursing services, psychosocial issues and patients’ experience of diabetes/ faecal incontinence and tissue viability. He was a member of the National Service Framework for Diabetes, nursing advisory panel, and a committee member for the Policy Advisory Group, Dept of Health, for the national retinopathy screening programme, 2001-2007. He has held honorary clinical appointments in acute and primary diabetes care services.  He has successfully supervised 10 Doctoral students to completion, and is an external examiner for  Doctoral studies in Universities World-Wide.

I am currently the Deputy Director of Graduate Education for the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, having responsibility for the support of all post-graduate research students in the Department.  I am also the Course Leader for the Post-Graduate Researcher Training Programme for the School of Human and Health Sciences.  My particular expertise and experience is focussed on the support, supervision and education of post-graduate researchers in health.  I am a member of the School Research Ethics and Integrity Committee, and have previously held the Deputy Chair of this committee.  I was also the University Teaching and Learning Committee Ethics Representative.

Current areas of research interest:

• Evaulating primary care diabetes services
• Prevention of type 2 diabetes 
• Evaluation of psychosocial intervention in people with long term conditions 
• Evaluating clinical nursing research collaborations 

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