Academic Biography

Dominic Simpson is a Senior lecturer of Nursing Midwifery and Health. Dominic joined the faculty in 2020, prior to joining northumbria Dominic worked in other higher education roles, he came to the university to further enhance his pateint safety and organsational culutre research work. Dominic has held a number of clinical nursing roles across the North East of England, his clinical expertise are within emergency medicine and critical care.  As well as his role at the university Dominic continues to hold a honorary contract at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, regularly supporting the delivery of services to patients. 

 Dominic Is currently studying for a PhD where he is aiming to understand the experiences of NHS staff when undertaking organsational culutre change, applying the Normalisation Process Theory  too understand how organisational culture improvement projects are experienced across complex systems.

Dominic holds a number of positions of responsibility in 2019 he was appointed chair of the Royal College's Northern Research Network a prestigious position that allows him to co-ordinate the networks activites across the region. Dominic is an active member of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) he uses his affiliation with the BACCN to provide a national voice to shape the strategy for critical care nursing and to promote safe, quality evidence based nursing care to the critically ill patient.

In 2019 Dominic was awarded membership of the Health Foundation’s Q network; Q is an initiative connecting people, who have improvement expertise, across the UK.

Learning and Teaching Interests and Activities

Summary of Research Interests