Rate My Professor Marion Waite

Dr Marion Waite, holding a DPhil from the University of Oxford, MSc, BA, Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Health Visitor (RHV), and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), serves as Associate Professor of Nursing Academic Development in the Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. Prior to academia, she had a career in the National Health Service (NHS) as a nurse, midwife, and health visitor, before transitioning to higher education to pursue her passions for professional education and research. In her current role, she is the Academic Career Development Lead for the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre. Her teaching portfolio encompasses undergraduate research methods and supervision, master's level applied health research and supervision, professional doctorate modules, and doctoral supervision. Marion has developed expertise as a teacher, academic, career developer, and researcher, particularly in digital health encompassing artificial intelligence and academic research writing development tailored for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.

Working at the nexus of nursing, education, and digital innovation, Dr Waite has influenced institutional and regional frameworks by developing scalable models for clinical supervision, curriculum design, and digital health research, thereby empowering early-career clinicians and researchers. She maintains a strong record of obtaining competitive funding, including personal awards such as the Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Leadership Scholarship awarded in 2023. Notable projects under her leadership include the Doctoral and Academic Writing in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (DAWNMAHP), Patient Empowerment Through Predictive Personalised Decision Support (PEPPER), and the CAVE-based Patient Education Tool (CAVEPET). Key publications feature "Validating the Doctoral and Academic Writing in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Profession (DAWNMAHP) survey tool for writing group interventions" with Deane et al. (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2025), "Workforce Recruitment Through Pre-Nursing Vocational and Education Training Schemes" (Nursing Open, 2025), "Who cares? Opportunities and challenges posed by agile working practices for carers employed in a Higher Education faculty" with Jones et al. (Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 2026), "Learner Participation in a MOOC for New Lecturers: The OpenStudy experience" (Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 2013), and "Learning in a Small, Task-Oriented, Connectivist MOOC" with Mackness et al. (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2013). Her scholarly contributions have garnered significant citations and advanced knowledge in her fields.