Biography

1999 - Senior Lecturer (Clinical). University of Surrey.
1990 - 1998 Nurse Tutor King Alfred’s College. Winchester. Hampshire.
1983 - 1989 Community Nurse Manager. North Hampshire Health Authority. Basingstoke.
1981 - 1983 Health Visitor. (Public Health Nurse) Dudley Health Authority. West Midlands
1975 - 1980 Community Charge Nurse. Dudley Health Authority

Research Interests

• Migraine Management in General Practice. Prof Huda Abu-Saad, Dr. Margaret Murphy, Vasso Vydelingum, Michele Peters, and Dr. Andrew Dawson (King’s College). Funded by Astra Zeneca and Migraine Action Group.UK

• Mapping the needs of public health practitioners. Vasso Vydelingum, Pat Colliety, Kath Hutchinson and Pam Smith. Project Funded by Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority.UK

• Evaluation of e-learning activity across two comparable programmes. University of and University of Surrey, Vasso Vydelingum, Prof. Carol Leppa, University of Washington, Seattle.

Doctoral projects successfully supervised (6)
Doctoral projects: examined: 4

Publications

Nasrabadi A.N., Joolaee S., Parsa-YeKta Z., Bahrani N., Noghani F.& Vydelingum V. ( 2009) A new approach for teaching nursing Ethics in Iran. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics VI (2) 85-89.

Alexis, O., Vydelingum, V (2009) Experiences in the UK National health Service: The overseas nurses’ workforce. Health Policy, 90: 320-328. 

Alexis, O., Vydelingum, V & Robbins I. (2007) Engaging with a new reality: experiences of overseas minority ethnic nurses in the NHS. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 16, 2221-2228.

Bernloehr A., Smith P & Vydelingum V. (2007) National Guidelines on antenatal care: a survey and comparison of the 25 member states of the European Union. European Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2, (4) 2006:213-222. 

Peters M, Huijer Abu-Saad, H, Vydelingum V, Dowson, (2007) A. Migraine and Chronic Daily Headache Management: Implications for Primary Care Practitioners. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness in association with Journal of Clinical Nursing 16, 7b, 159–167. 

M. Peters, H. Huijer Abu-Saad, I. I. Robbins, V. Vydelingum, A. Dowson, M. Murphy. Patients' management of migraine and chronic daily headache: A study of the members of the Migraine Action Group (UK). Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 45 (5), 571-581 May 2005. 

M. Peters, H. Huijer Abu-Saad, V. Vydelingum, A. Dowson, M. Murphy (2005) The patients' perceptions of migraine and chronic daily headache: a qualitative study. Journal of Headache and Pain. 6 (1), 40-47. 

Bernloehr A., Smith P. & Vydelingum V. (2005). Antenatal care in the European Union. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology. 122, 22-32. 

Alexis, O., Vydelingum, V. and Robbins I. (2006) Overseas nurses’ experiences of equal opportunities in the NHS in England. Journal of Health Organisation and Management. 20 (2), 130-139. 

Teaching

Module leader: Power, Policy and Politics- DClinPrac programme
Subject lead: Public health, Diversity, culture and health

Departmental Duties

Research supervisor for masters and doctoral projects
Teach research methods
Provide ongoing training and support supervisors

Visiting Ass. Professor - University of Washington, Bothell for Students on Masters in Nursing for Educational Visits in UK since 2003.