University of Derby

Lynn Basford

Lynn Basford is currently Professor of Nursing and Head of Nursing at the University of Derby UK; President of the European Honours Society for Nurses and Midwives and Chair of The Trent Institute of Inter-Professional Practice Learning and Education. Lynn has worked in the field of Health Care and Educational Practice for over thirty years specialising in Community, Primary Care and Public Health. Over the last decade she has commanded leadership roles in health care education, developing and pioneering new curricula models that have had national influence.

At all times Lynn has strove to triangulate education, practice and research. Currently her research activities are centred on: Public Health; coping with co-morbidity; sexual health in young people; empowerment in the field of mental health; developing a learning culture in Primary Care and Inter-professional web based learning.

Lynn has worked with international partners from Europe, Japan and the USA on a centenarian project and with the faculty staff at Jagallonian University, Krakow, Poland on a three year TEMPEST project.

Lynn is currently the Principal Investigator for the University of Derby as part of the Inco- Copernicus project as part of the exploration of Lifestyle and living condition and its relationship to health in the CIS countries.

Katie Dann

Katie Dann (BSc, MSc) is the research associate for the Inco Copernicus Project. Katie is currently in her second year of her Ph.D. investigating the expression of health value and health-related locus of control as an explanation of the maladapted health lifestyles observed in the transitional CIS-nations. Her other academic interests include social psychology, health psychology and empirical empowerment.

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