Mr Phil Coleman

Phil first joined The Open University (OU) as an Associate Lecturer in 2003. After increasing his teaching portfolio, undertaking a range of consultancy work for the Faculty of Health & Social Care, becoming an OU VQAC Assessor and taking on additional responsibilities (as a mentor and monitor), he accepted the post of Staff Tutor (Health & Social Care) within The OU in the North in August 2007. Phil's professional background is in the field of mental health. As a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Nurse Tutor he has over 35 years of varied experience within the NHS, independent care, Further and Higher Education sectors. This experience has included leading both clinical and academic teams as well as managing various innovative, collaborative curriculum development projects.

Phil has held appointments as an External Examiner for the Foundation Degree Assistant Practitioner in Health & Social Care at Liverpool John Moores University, the BA Joint Honours Health & Social Care/Health in Contemporary Society programme at Northumbria University, and the Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University. He recently accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship (De Gruyter), was previously an Editorial Board Member of the open access journal Annual Review of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (Newcastle University) and has been an academic reviewer for manuscripts submitted to Blackwell Science, BMJ, DeGruyter, Elsevier and Pearson Publishing.

In 2013, Phil was promoted to Senior Lecturer. He was also was appointed Associate Dean Nations & Regions and in this role had responsibility for the strategic management of Faculty teams based in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, East Grinstead, Edinburgh, Gateshead, Leeds, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford. During his term of office as an Associate Dean he received several awards for exceptional performance but the appointment ended in 2016 due to this post disappearing in a revised management structure for the new Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies (a merger of the Faculty of Health & Social Care and the Faculty of Education & Language Studies). He therefore returned to his substantive post as a Staff Tutor serving Northeast England and Cumbria.

More recently, Phil has been working with OU Validation Partnerships as a Chair for Validation, Revalidation and Major Changes panels. He was appointed as a member of the School's Academic Staff Promotions Group, Learning & Teaching Group, is a mentor for new appointees and staff submitting cases for promotion to Senior Lecturer, a facilitator for academic colleagues formulating their research and scholarship development plans and is building his portfolio of published work. He continues to hold effective registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council, is a Fellow of the Society for Education & Training and a member of the Royal College of Nursing. He is currently undertaking a part-time EdD with Newcastle University and is scheduled to complete this award in 2023.