I teach first-year undergraduates on the 'Professional Nursing Values' & the 'Evidence-Based Nursing' modules.  I am involved in teaching simulation to third-year undergraduates as part of the BSc (Hons) Nursing Programme.  At postgraduate level, I co-coordinate the 'Working with People with Dementia' Programme.  I also teach across the specialist practice programme in the 'Nursing Older People' programme pathway.

I act as a link-lecturer for a number of clinical areas in the Downe Hospital and independent sector.  I also support a number of nurses, undertaking their specialist practice (older people), with clinical visits throughout Northern Ireland.  In addition, I serve as a personal tutor for a group of 50 undergraduate student nurses at the School.

With regards to scholarship, I am currently working on projects to evaluate the impact of an educational game about flu awareness, the effectiveness of a face-to-face delirium champions workshop co-developed by the Royal College of Nursing & the long-term impact of the dementia friends programme on student nurses at the university.

Over the past number of years I have been involved in research projects which have examined communication about oral chemotherapy, safe-staffing in care homes, the use of digital audits in long-term care facilities, the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions in dementia care & palliative care in care homes.

I am currently working on a funded project to develop a digital game to improve public perception of dementia.  

2017 Student of the Year (Queen's University Belfast)

2016 Nurse of the Year (British Journal of Nursing Awards)

2015 Inspirational Nurse Leader (Nursing Times Awards)

Funded Projects:

Mitchell G, Brown-Wilson C, Coleman D, Brocklehurst P, Tsakos G, Lappin C & McKenna G (2020-Present) Development of a digital intervention to improve oral health for older people living with complex needs in the community.  Burdett Trust for Nursing.

Mitchell G, Carlise S, McMullan J & Wong A (2020-present) Co-development of Parkinson's Disease education for nursing students.  Public Health Agency Northern Ireland.

Mitchell G, Brown-Wilson C & Craig S. (2019-2020) A qualitative evaluation of the dementia friends programme delivered to undergraduate medical and nursing students in Northern Ireland. Alzheimer's Society.

McCance T, Brown D, Mitchell G & Gormley K (2019-Present) Recording care through the PACE Framework: Research Evaluation of an innovative approach to person-centred care planning.  Public Health Agency Northern Ireland.

Brown-Wilson C, Carter C & Mitchell G (2018-2019) Development of a digital game to improve public perception of dementia.  Dementia Development Services Trust.