Marion Leducq
Lecturer and Lead for Student Retention, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Contact
- workDivision of Nursing, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
UK - work0115 8 230 925
- fax0115 8 231 211
- marion.leducq@nottingham.ac.uk
Biography
Marion Leducq is currently a Lecturer and Lead for Student Retention in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy. She is a registered nurse with a background in critical care nursing in the UK and Europe. Prior to moving into teaching at Nottingham in 1991, she worked as a clinical nurse specialist in critical care and maintains a special interest in intensive care delirium.
Marion's academic background is in psychology; she studied for a first degree in psychology whilst working as a critical care nurse, after developing an interest the psychological needs of critically patients and their families. She completed a PhD in applied psychology in 2002 in the University's Institute of Work Health and Organisations, supervised by Professor Tom Cox, and is a Chartered Psychologist. Since then she has maintained an association with the Institute through teaching, conference presentations and research interests.
Marion's current work is around student support and the first year experience and includes leading a project to introduce peer mentoring of new students. She has collaborated with the University of Keele to launch a national special interest group in retention in health care students.
Expertise Summary
Occupational burnout
Student retention
Recent Research Supervisees
Hussam Al-Nusair (part time) School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy. Co-supervision with Dr Jacqueline Randle Thesis Title: The Effect Of Self-Perceived Occupational Stress On Job Performance, Staff Intention To Stay, Staff recognition And Social Support Among Nurses Working In A Diversely Cultural Setting In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia
Lorraine Marsons (part time) School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy. Co-supervision with Prof Ravi Mahajan Thesis Title: ICU delirium and cognitive impairment following critical illness.
Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith (full time) School of Education. Co-supervision with Dr Peter Gates Thesis Title: How an Access to HE course prepares mature women on a Diploma in nursing programme to persist on programme despite levels of personal and social stress and how this might benefit an understanding of attrition in UK nurse education. (Submission pending)
Teaching Summary
I teach psychology applied tohealthcare on a range of pre-registration and post-registration courses. I have a strong commitment to enabling nurses to use research evidence and applications of… read more
Research Summary
Peer mentors
Student retention
Doctoral Supervision
Recent Publications
, HINSLIFF-SMITH, K, GATES, P. AND LEDUCQ, M. and , 2012. Persistence, how do they do it?: A case study of Access to Higher Education learners on a Diploma/BSc Nursing Programme, Nurse Education Today. 32(1), 27-31
and LEDUCQ, M., WILLIAMS, G., 2004. Promoting Positive Work Environments: The Role of the Clinical Mentor. In: Occupational Health Psychology: Key Papers of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology 6. ISMAI. 223-229
HAINES, S, CROCKER, C and LEDUCQ, M, 2001. Providing continuity of care for patients transferred from ICU. Professional Nurse. 17(1), 17-21
I teach psychology applied tohealthcare on a range of pre-registration and post-registration courses. I have a strong commitment to enabling nurses to use research evidence and applications of psychology to inform and enhance their practice. My special teaching interests are occupational stress and burnout and the psychological effects of illness, particularly intensive care delirium. Module leader: B71 P01 Foundations in Social Sciences