Rate My Professor Conor Hamilton

Conor Hamilton is a Senior Lecturer (Education) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, part of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences. His professional career includes roles as a visiting lecturer at University Hospitals Galway in 2023 and advisor at University College Cork in 2023. Hamilton's research specializations focus on nursing education, academic integrity and professionalism, endoscopy training including interprofessional education, therapeutics and pharmacology, and patient self-management of polypharmacy regimens. He leads ongoing projects such as the co-production of a student-facing pharmacology website and a research study on self-management of polypharmacy. Hamilton actively contributes to the Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team within his school and promotes innovations in teaching and clinical practice.

In teaching, Hamilton delivers postgraduate certificates and short courses in Endoscopy Nursing and Health Assessment. He co-developed an innovative digital serious game that links academic integrity with professional values for nursing students, evaluated through pre/post-test and multi-methods studies demonstrating significant improvements in students' self-efficacy across academic offenses, professional behaviors, feedback utilization, and ethical AI use in academia. As co-founder of InnovaScope, a company advancing endoscopy innovations, he secured funding including the QUB Proof of Principle scheme (£11.6k in 2024), ICURe Discover (£2.5k in 2024), Innovation in Teaching Fund (£2.5k in 2022), and Florence Elliot Staff Travel Award (£1k in 2023); he was also shortlisted for the Queen's University Belfast Staff Excellence Awards in Innovation (2023). Key publications include 'Integrating academic and professional integrity: a co-designed serious game for nursing students - a multi-methods study' (International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2025), 'Promoting self-efficacy of nursing students in academic integrity through a digital serious game: a pre/post-test study' (Nursing Reports, 2025), 'Navigating emotional and physical challenges after surgery' (StomaTips, 2025), 'Treatment options for postoperative faecal incontinence after colorectal surgery' (British Journal of Community Nursing, 2025), and 'Transanal irrigation: where are we now?' (Gastrointestinal Nursing, 2024). With 16 research outputs, Hamilton's work enhances nursing education and clinical impact.