Dr Sue Woodward

Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing

Research interests

Midwifery
Nursing

Contact details

sue.woodward@kcl.ac.uk

Biography

Sue is a lecturer in Adult Nursing. Her research and teaching interests are incontinence care and bowel and bladder symptom management in long-term conditions.

Sue worked clinically within the field of neurosciences and continence nursing almost exclusively since she qualified as a registered nurse in 1988 and has worked in regional neuroscience units around London. Sue became a full-time lecturer at King's College London in 1999, completed a four-year term as head of the department for specialist and palliative care and completed her PhD studies in 2011. Sue has co-edited the “Oxford Handbook of Neuroscience Nursing” (2009) and "Neuroscience Nursing - Evidence-based Practice" (2011), the only two neuroscience nursing texts published in the UK.

Sue’s current research focuses on bowel management in inflammatory bowel disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Sue has interests and expertise in bladder and bowel care within neuroscience, management of patients with long-term neurological conditions and clinical education. She is Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Neurosciences Forum committee, founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Commissioning Editor of the British Journal of Nursing and was a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for urinary incontinence in neurological disorders. Sue was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2017.

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