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Mr Samuel Woodnutt

 BA PGCAP PGCE PGDip MSc RMN QTS FHEA
Principal Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Patient and Staff Safety
  • Organisational Systems
  • Epidemiology

More research

Connect with Samuel

Profile photo 
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Name 
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Job title 
Raise a request through ServiceNow (opens in a new tab) to change your job title (40 characters maximum) unless you're on the ERE career pathway. If you're on the ERE path you can not change your main job title, but you can request other minor updates through Ask HR (opens in new tab). If you have more than one post only your main job title will display here, but you can add further posts or roles in other sections of your profile.

Research interests (for researchers only) 
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.

In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.

Contact details 
Add or update your email address, telephone number and postal address in Subscribe (opens in a new tab). Use your University email address for your primary email. 

You can link to your Google Scholar, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts through Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’.  In the 'Links' section, use the 'Add link' button. 

ORCID ID 
Create or connect your ORCID ID in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’ and then 'Create or Connect your ORCID ID'.

Accepting PhD applicants (for researchers only) 
Choose to show whether you’re currently accepting PhD applicants or not in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. In the 'Portal details' section, select 'Yes' or 'No' to indicate your choice. 

About

Sam is a Principal Teaching Fellow in Health Sciences.  His research focuses around the quality and safety of mental health care, incorporating quantitative methodologies to understand and model safer staffing.  He is a registered mental health nurse, registered teacher (General Teaching Council) with QTS, holds an MSc with distinction and is a current PhD student under the supervision of Professor Peter Griffiths and Dr Chiara Dall'ora.

Sam's education combines psychological formulation, risk assessment, research methods, lived experience and high-fidelity simulation to provide rounded, in-depth and contemporaneous education to pre-registration health care professionals.

Sam is an invited member of multiple national steering groups for Mental Health Nursing, working alongside NHS England, Health Education England, the Queen's Nursing Institute and colleagues across a number of sectors.

Alongside this, he has over 10 years experience in a variety of operational and strategic clinical roles, specialising in acute psychiatry, crisis intervention/suicide prevention and management, alongside therapeutic approaches to care.

You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.

Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.

You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.