Christopher Wagstaff

UK

Chris Wagstaff is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He worked for the NHS for 14 years before entering Higher Education. He is a clinical nurse specialist in mental health and brings this experience to his role.

Chris’ responsibilities as the program director for the MSc in nursing are to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality learning opportunities for students on the programme. He provides strategic oversight and direction of the programme. As the programme director, he provides the ‘glue’ between modules by supporting and bringing together module leaders to facilitate the design and delivery of a cohesive programme. He is also the admissions lead for the programme.

He is a tutor and lecturer to a range of students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, training nurses in all fields of practice.

Chris helped develop and launch the first programme for mental health nursing in Guyana, at the University of Guyana. He delivers a few lectures there every year and also has dissertation students.

He is currently exploring the possibility of developing a shared postgraduate teaching program with Universidade de São Paulo.