Kerry has over 25 years experience in nursing and midwifery. She has worked in education roles both clinically and within higher education. Kerry has worked as Quality Manager for education at West Midlands Strategic Health Authority and more recently has held a portfolio including: being Director of an independent consultancy business specialising in healthcare education and quality assurance; working as Policy Manager at the Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services; and as a research fellow and Lecturer at Keele University. Her most recent work includes the development of a quality assurance framework and methodology for healthcare education contracts for the East of England Strategic Health Authority region.

Kerry’s research interests include clinical education and supporting learning within communities of practice. Her PhD research led to the development of a modelling framework and tool for supporting practice situated education.

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BEAZOR, K., LISTER, G., JONES, K. and HAM, C. (2007) A Vision for the health and care workforce 2022. International Society for Quality in Healthcare, annual conference Boston 2007. COSME-PEREZ, M. and JONES, K. (2010) Modern communities of practice and their impact on fitness for practice: a tale of complexity, variability and innovation. RCN Education Forum Conference, Blackpool, February 2010 JONES, K and WALSH, P. (2006) The impact of effective partnership working on the student experience in healthcare. World Association for Co operative Education, International Symposium: work integrated learning for sustainable futures 16-18 November 2006, London JONES, K. (2002) Making that difference: developing clinical learning environments to meet the national agenda. Nurse Education in Practice, 2 (1) pp. 63-65. JONES, K. (2005) Strengthening the Bridge: The development of a Trust based programme to support the achievement of competence and confidence for the undergraduate student preparing for qualification. RCN Joint Education Forum and Conference: Education Partners in Practice, February 2005, Harrogate, England. JONES, K. (2006) The Cinderella Principle: practice placement support roles, an exploration of strategic fit. RCN joint education forums conference, Cardiff, February, 2006. JONES, K. and JESTER, R. (2008) Insights from the melting pot: using Delphi to identify national priorities for student nurse support during practice placements. Nurse Education Today/Nurse Education in Practice, Research and Innovation in Nurse Education, 2nd International Nurse Education Conference, 9-11 June 2008, Dublin Ireland. JONES, K., SUNDERLAND, M and STARKEY-MOORE, T. (2010) Re-modelling the delivery of nurse education: considering the evidence for change. RCN Education Forum Conference, Blackpool, February 2010 JONES, K., SUNDERLAND, M. and JESTER, R.F. (2010) We’re not in Kansas anymore: using action research to develop a new model of delivery for nurse education aligned to the contemporary world of nursing practice. Nurse Education Today /Nurse Education in Practice International Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 2010. MASLIN-PROTHERO, S.E., MASTERSON, A. and JONES, K (2008) Four parts or one whole: The National Health Service (NHS) post-devolution. Journal of Nursing Management 16(6), pp. 662-672 WALSH, P. and JONES, K. (2004) An exploration of tripartite collaboration in developing a strategic approach to the facilitation of practice learning. Methods in Nursing Education Conference, Aarhus, Denmark. August 21-23, 2002 WALSH, P. and JONES, K. (2005) An exploration of tripartite collaboration in developing a strategic approach to the facilitation of practice learning. Nurse Education in Practice, 5(1), pp. 49-57. WREN, J., JONES, K and GUY, J. (2010) More than just ticking boxes: developing a quality assurance framework that meaningfully supports quality enhancement. RCN Education Forum Conference, Blackpool, February 2010.