Join us for the next webinar in the King’s Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care International Research Seminar Series, which showcases world-leading research to a global audience. This session, led by Professor Glenn Robert, highlights how researchers at King’s are using artificial intelligence and interprofessional collaboration to transform healthcare delivery and improve outcomes in critical care settings.

Presentations

Nursing in the age of AI

Dr Siobhán O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Education & Research

Siobhán will present the AI Nurses Network a new clinical research network that she leads on artificial intelligence (AI) in nursing. She will discuss the training and educational resources available for nurses in AI and data science, scholarships and seed funding available for nurse-led AI research, along with news and events available via the network to help nurses connect and work with AI researchers and industry. She will also present new developments in the network such as country leads in the Americas and Asia and opportunities for new partnerships to enable nurses pioneer AI to improve patient care and population health.

Siobhán O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at Western University, Canada and is a Liaison to the United Nations for Sigma Nursing. Dr O’Connor has a multidisciplinary background with bachelor's degrees in nursing and information systems, completing her PhD in health informatics, and has nearly 20 years combined experience in industry, clinical practice, and higher education. With more than 90 publications and £3 million in research funding, her research focuses on co-designing, implementing, and evaluating technologies in healthcare, with a particular interest in mobile and other digital innovations that can support patient self-management. She also served as an external advisor on the World Health Organization on the WHO's State of the World's Nursing report 2025 providing recommendations on digital nursing education and practice.

Teamwork and resilience in intensive care: Insights from the FEARLESS ICU study

Dr Andreas Xyrichis, Reader in Interprofessional Science

Andreas will present on his latest study investigating interprofessional collaborative working in intensive care units (ICUs) using ethnographic methods as part of his NIHR-funded FEARLESS ICU (Fostering tEAmwork for ResiLiEnt Staff and Safe care in ICU) research project. FEARLESS employs rapid ethnography across multiple hospitals in England, coupled with interviews of health professionals, to understand the factors that influence interprofessional teamwork practices in UK ICUs. He will share insights on the study’s background, methodology, progress, preliminary findings and international collaborations arising from this line of research.

Andreas Xyrichis is a thrice King’s graduate (BSc Nursing, MSc Research, PhD Social Science) and a recognised thought leader in interprofessional education and collaborative practice, ranked in the top 2% of scholars worldwide by SciVal. His research programme investigates interprofessional collaborative practice in healthcare for safety, equity, and quality of care, securing over £1.6 million in external grant funding. Andreas serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interprofessional Care, a Q1 journal widely regarded as the premier publication in this field of scholarship.

Session chair

Professor Glenn Robert, Vice Dean (Research & Impact) and Head of Division, Methodologies

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