About
Christina is a Lecturer in Healthcare Management and Leadership. She is based in the Health Workforce and Systems research group in Health Sciences. She has been researching hospital staffing since 2017 using quantitative methods such as multi-level regression and simulation modelling. This work has been funded predominantly by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Christina’s background is in Operational Research, the branch of Mathematics that uses advanced quantitative techniques to help make better decisions. She is interested in how Operational Research techniques can be applied to decisions in healthcare, particularly staffing decisions.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Safe staffing
- Operational research techniques applied to healthcare
- Health workforce
Current research
Christina is the principal investigator on a project investigating whether nursing workload can be predicted from electronic health records (PREDICT-NURSE feasibility), a co-Investigator on a related study (PREDICT-NURSE extension) and a workpackage lead on a study investigating intensive care unit staffing (SEISMIC-R).
Alongside this she is working to promote the team’s research and influence practice including work with NHS Improvement to update staffing guidance (Professional judgement framework: a guide to applying professional judgement in nurse staffing reviews - ePrints Soton).
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
My teaching interests include leading organisations & systems, managerial decision-making, quantitative techniques (in particular operational research/data science), safe staffing/health workforce and reviewing/critiquing research evidence. Current teaching responsibilities:
-Lecturer on MSc Leadership and Management in Health and
Social Care programme
-Seminar lead and supervisor for Masters nursing dissertations
-Guest lecturer and marker
Biography
Prizes
- Dean's Prize for Citizenship (2021)
- School of Health Sciences Fellowship (2023)