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Staff profile: Professor Diane Marks-Maran

Position: Honorary Professor of Health and Social Care Education 
Email: marksmaran@btopenworld.com

Biography

Di is a trained nurse and a registered nurse teacher. Her clinical speciality was cancer nursing and her career has included working as a sister in the Royal Marsden Hospital’s Breast Cancer Ward and as a nurse teacher in cancer care and adult nursing. Currently, Di works with academic staff in the Faculty and a number of other universities to: develop innovative approaches to learning and teaching underpinned by evidence-based pedagogy; carry out evaluative research on the impact of these learning and teaching innovations; and assist academic staff to write for publication. She has published six books of nursing practice and nursing education and over 50 articles and chapters in professional journals and textbooks.

Di was an active member of a number of specialist fora within the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and was a founder member of the RCN’s ethics forum. She has an international reputation in nursing and healthcare education and was one of the leaders in the implementation of problem and enquiry-based learning in nursing in the 1990s. She has undertaken extensive work, including writing articles, on constructivism and situated learning and their application to nursing and healthcare.

Over the past five years Di has undertaken educational evaluative research into a number of learning and teaching innovations including the use of distance and elearning in healthcare programmes, use of simulation in nursing education, various aspects of student learning support and enquiry-based learning. She was made a Fellow of the Open Learning Foundation in 2002.

Di’s current research and scholarship activities include examining the evidence base for how students on professional programmes learn and applying this evidence base to healthcare education programmes.

Interests

Educational research methods, evaluative research, learning and teaching; evidence-based teaching; interprofessional working

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

Article

Tolley, Kim , Marks-Maran, Di and Burke, Linda (2010) The Snapshot tool: a new form of practice assessment. British Journal of Nursing, 19(14), pp. 905-911. ISSN (print) 0966-0461

Burke, Linda , Marks-Maran, Diane , Ooms, Ann , Webb, Marion and Cooper, Denise (2009) Towards a pedagogy of work-based learning: perceptions of work-based learning in foundation degrees. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 61(1), pp. 15-33. ISSN (print) 1363-6820

Atkins, Nigel , May, Steve , Marks-Maran, Diane and Gay, Jane (2008) A civic university's approach to the 'mathematics problem' in society. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 6(1), pp. 21-34. ISSN (print) 1740-1348

Kyle, Gaye and Marks-Maran, Di (2008) Focus group interviews: how aromatherapists feel about changing their practice through undertaking a randomised controlled trial? Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 14(3), pp. 204-211. ISSN (print) 1744-3881

May, Steve , Gay, Jane , Atkins, Nigel and Marks-Maran, Diane (2008) Preparing potential teachers for the transition from employment to teacher training: an evaluative case study of a Maths Enhancement Course. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 60(2), pp. 149-158. ISSN (print) 1363-6820

Longfellow, Erica , May, Steve , Burke, Linda and Marks-Maran, Diane (2008) 'They had a way of helping that actually helped': a case study of a peer-assisted learning scheme. Teaching in Higher Education, 13(1), pp. 93-105. ISSN (print) 1356-2517

Marks-Maran, Diane (2006) Book Review of: Working ethics: how to be fair in a culturally complex world by R Rowson. Nursing Ethics, 13(6), pp. 663-664. ISSN (print) 0969-7330

Hill, Mike , Fergy, Sue and Marks-Maran, Di (2006) Widening participation in nursing through progression agreements between a university and two further education colleges: a case study. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 30(3), pp. 255-268. ISSN (print) 0309-877x

Atkins, Nigel , May, Steve and Marks-Maran, Di (2005) Widening participation in subjects requiring data handling skills: the MathsAid project. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 29(4), pp. 353-365. ISSN (print) 0309-877x

Book Section

Marks-Maran, Di and Young, Gill (2005) Interprofessional learning: context, meaning and technology. In: Carlisle, Caroline , Donovan, Tom and Mercer, Dave, (eds.) Interprofessional education: an agenda for healthcare professionals. Dinton, UK : Quay Books. pp. 141-153. ISBN 1856422380

Young, Gill and Marks-Maran, Diane (2002) But they looked great on paper. In: Schwartz, Peter L and Webb, Graham, (eds.) Assessment: case studies, experience and practice from higher education. London : Kogan Page. pp. 106-113. ISBN 0749436239

Marks-Maran, Diane (2001) Using information technology. In: Maslin-Prothero, Sian, (ed.) Baillière's study skills for nurses. Edinburgh : Bailliere Tindall in association with the RCN. pp. 75-96. ISBN 0702026026

Monograph

Fergy, S. , Marks-Maran, D. and Ooms, A. (2008) The evaluation of the academic, personal and professional learning model of student support. (Project Report) Kingston upon Thames, UK : Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University and St George's, University of London. 38 p. (Unpublished)

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Consultancies

  • Marks-Maran D (2001). Consultant in Problem-Based Learning to The School of Nursing, University of Nottingham
  • Marks-Maran D (2001-2005). Consultant in Distance Learning to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee
  • Marks-Maran D (2002-2005). Educational Consultant to the National Lymphoedema Framework Project, Centre for Research and Implementation in Practice (CRICP), Thames Valley University. (Funded by the Kings Fund)
  • Marks-Maran D (2002-2004). Consultant to the Department of Health. Ongoing Quality Monitoring Framework Project
  • Marks-Maran D (2001-2005). Consultant in Distance Education to the Open Learning Foundation (Won a tender to produce Distance/Blended Learning Materials on the National Service Frameworks)
  • Marks-Maran D (2002-2005). Consultant in Distance Learning to the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University. (Invited to produce distance/elearning materials)