Ashley Spriggs

Ashley Spriggs

  • u_aspriggs at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Principal Academic
Back to top

Biography

Ashley is a Registered Nurse and academic with experience in the care of people with acute illness, having worked in the acute setting before developing her role as a nurse academic. She is a Principal Academic in Adult Nursing, teaching on units related to anatomy & physiology and bioscience in nursing. She is the current Programme Lead for the BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Programme and Deputy Head of Department.

Her particular areas of interest are dementia and end of life care. She is currently undertaking her PhD, the title of her thesis is: 'The Development of an Intervention to Improve End-Of-Life Care for People with Dementia in Care Homes.'

Journal Articles

Conferences

  • Heward, M., Board, M., Spriggs, A., Murphy, J., 2020. Implementation and impact of ‘DEALTS2’ dementia education in acute care. In: 15th United Kindgom Dementia Congress 10/11/2020 Virtual.
  • Heward, M., Board, M., Spriggs, A., Blagden, D., Murphy, J., 2018. ‘Walking in someone else’s shoes’: humanising dementia care through simulated learning. In: Humanising Caring, Health and Wellbeing Conference 21/06/2018 Bournemouth.
  • Board, M., Heward, M., Murphy, J., Spriggs, A., phipps, L., 2018. Getting the message across – seeing the person not the diagnosis in dementia care education. In: NetNep 2018 05/05/2018 Banff Canada.
  • Heward, M., Murphy, J., Board, M., Spriggs, A., Emerson, L., 2017. Integrating humanisation into practice: a dementia education and learning case study. In: Humanising Caring, Health and Wellbeing Conference 29/06/2017 Bournemouth.
  • Murphy, J., Heward, M., Board, M., Spriggs, A., 2017. Integrating humanisation into practice: a dementia education and learning case study Humanising Caring. In: Health and Wellbeing Conference, 29/06/2017 Bournemouth,.
  • Heaslip, V., Spriggs, A, Mills, A., Scammell, J., Warren, A., Mercer, A., Addis, A., Bond, M., Latchford, C., Borwell, J., 2016. "Humanising the Interview Process”; an Evaluation of Service User/Carers Contribution to Value Based Recruitment in a Pre-registration Adult Nursing Programme. In: NET/NEP 6th International Nurse Education Conference 03/04/2016 Brisbane, Australia.
  • Spriggs, A., Heaslip, V., Mills, A., Warren, A., Haynes, J., 2015. Service User/Carers contribution to Value Based Recruitment in a Pre-registration Adult Nursing Programme. In: NET; networking for education in healthcare 08/09/2015 Churchill College, Cambridge.
  • Scammell, J., Spriggs, A., Tait, D., 2015. The challenge of implementing integrated care: findings from a respiratory service evaluation. In: Nursing leadership in a politicised care arena. Sigma Theta Tau Phi Mu Chapter Biannual Conference 11/06/2015 Leeds.

Reports

Posters

  • Heward, M., Board, M., Spriggs, A., Murphy, J., 2021. Implementation and impact of Dementia Education And Learning Through Simulation 2 (DEALTS2) programme. In: Health Education England South West Digital and Workforce Showcase.
  • Heward, M., Board, M., Spriggs, A., Blagden, D., Murphy, J., 2019. Implementation and evaluation of Dementia Education And Learning Through Simulation 2 (DEALTS2) Programme. In: Alzheimer's Society Annual Conference.
  • Heward, M., Board, M., Spriggs, A., Blagden, D., Murphy, J., 2018. Implementation and evaluation of Dementia Education and Learning Through Simulation 2 (DEALTS 2) programme. In: 13th UK Dementia Congress 2018.

Grants

  • Service Evaluation of a newly established DAIRS Service (Wessex AHSN, 01 Dec 2014). Completed

Memberships

  • NMC, Member (2001-),
The data on this page was last updated at 05:00 on February 18, 2026.