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Helen Merlane

Assistant Professor

School: Healthcare and Nursing Sciences

Helen Merlane

Campus Address

Room G216
Coach Lane Campus, East Coach Lane
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE7 7XA
  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Better conversations: embedding death education in higher education as a pedagogical and public health responsibility, McEwan, K., Atkinson, J., Ardron, K., Chan, W., Lai, F., Merlane, H., Peat, G., Kellehear, A. 3 Jul 2026, In: Teaching in Higher Education
  • Suffering, Silence, and the State: Mass Observation’s 1994 Assisted Dying Letters and the Enduring Politics of Palliative Care, McEwan, K., Hardill, I., Merlane, H. 1 Aug 2026, In: Politics and Policy
  • Exploring routes into nursing: finding the right path, Merlane, H., Derbyshire, J. 21 Jul 2025, In: British Journal of Nursing
  • Graduate guarantee for newly qualified nurses and midwives: a turning point for workforce planning in England, Hill, B., Machin, A., Merlane, H., Derbyshire, J., Simpson, D. 9 Oct 2025, In: British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)
  • Exploring undergraduate experiences: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of academic internships in nursing, midwifery, and health at a northeast higher education institution in the UK, Hill, B., Derbyshire, J., Merlane, H. 26 May 2023, In: Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching
  • Advance Care Planning, Merlane, H., Armstrong, L. 23 Jan 2020, In: British Journal of Nursing
  • Core principles of end of life care, Merlane, H., Cauwood, L. 12 Mar 2020, In: British Journal of Nursing
  • Discharge planning in end-of-life care, Merlane, H., Booth, Z. 27 Feb 2020, In: British Journal of Nursing
  • Care after death, Merlane, H., Armstrong, L. Mar 2019, In: British Journal of Nursing
  • Health MSc June 30 2014
  • Nurse Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2017
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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