Anna Bovo, Teaching Fellow (RN, MSc, SEP, PhDC)

Contact details

Address

Street

Doorway 6
Medical Quad
Teviot Place

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AG

Biography

Background

Registered nurse, multidisciplinary researcher and, neurosomatic practitioner. 

I am currently working as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh whilst completing my PhD on nurses' emotions and developing a trauma-aware nursing culture. 

I am passionate about human interactions and their affect. 

I am also interested in the power of silence, self-discovery and self-care. 

Qualifications

Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (UK)

MSc in Advancing Nursing Practice (UK)

Postgrad specialization in Bioethics (Italy)

Postgrad specialization in Tutoring (Italy) 

Undergraduate teaching

Part-time tutoring: Mind and Body: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 2 (NUST08023) - 2022/2023

Postgraduate teaching

Guest Lecturer for Dr Lissette Aviles's course ‘Person Centred Care in Practice: Relationships and Emotion'. Class Title: "Person Centred Care in Practice: Supporting ourselves and our team". 25 March 2024. School of Health in Social Science - The University of Edinburgh.

Part-time tutoring: Person Centred Care in Practice: Relationships and Emotion (NUST11117) - 2023/2024

Part-time tutoring: Humanities and Arts-Informed Methods in Social Sciences (CNST11087) - 2022/2023; 2023/2024 

Part-time tutoring: Designing Research in Nursing, Health and Social Care (NUST11092) - 2023/2024 

Guest Lecturer for Dr Marisa De Andrade's course ‘Humanities and Arts-Informed Methods in the Social Sciences'. Class Title: "Humanities, art and healing – what is real and unreal in health? Art/humanities *as* healing in healthcare. The nature of reality (ontology) in mental health". 12 October 2023. School of Health in Social Science - The University of Edinburgh.

Areas of interest for supervision

Offering supervision with guidance on the following topic-areas (get inspired!): 

  • Trauma-informed advocacy and mind-body healing
  • Self-care within acute care settings and organizations
  • Embodied methodologies and creative approaches to post-qualitative inquiry
  • Emotion regulation and affect theorizing

Research summary

My PhD explores emotions as experienced by acute care nurses. I am specializing in trauma healing, somatic experiencing and emotion regulation. 

Research interests: 

Nursing, Emotions, Emotion regulation, Affective neuroscience, Emergency care, Critical care, Trauma and flashback memories

 

Knowledge exchange

Delighted to share my contribution to knowledge through the Achieved Impact Awarded Category 2024 by SGSSS

https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/impact-competition/2024-comp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2EK21nXU70

 

Current project grants

CAHSS Scholarship College Research Awards - 2021
SGSSS Impact Competition Award - 2024

Conference details

HiSS PGR Conference. Title: Measuring the impact of body-oriented emotion explorations in acute care settings: trauma-informed self-care for nursing staff. May 29, 2024

Edinburgh Mental Health's Annual Conference 2024. 'Navigating Mental Health Research: Uncertainty, Action and Change'. Poster Presentation.

Lothian Health and Care Professions Research Conference 2023. Poster Presentation. 

ICPCE Conference 4th International Conference on Psychology, Counselling and Education. Title: What do I mean by emotion? Reflections to dialogue with nurses working in times of pandemics. - October 29-30, 2022

ECQI 2023. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Title: Nurses’ embodied emotion when caring for patient-related, emotionally overwhelming events: trauma-informed inquiry. November 18, 2022 

RCSI Nursing Conference 2023. Poster Presentation. 

 

Invited speaker

Chair for the Nursing Seminar on Workforce Issues (March 14th 2024) 

Chair for the Nursing Seminar Public engagement and impact of YARNS/YARNS Transitions (Dec 4th 2023) 

Key speaker for the ATCC Band 7 Away Day at the Edinburgh Training & Conference Venue (Nov 23rd 2023)

Key speaker for the Critical Care Wellness Workshop at the Edinburgh Training & Conference Venue (Oct 26th, Nov 9th 2023) 

Key speaker for the SE® Research Summit (invited). Title: Embodied emotions experienced by nurses within acute care contexts: how to design qualitative research? - October 20, 2022

Co-Chair for the Nursing Seminar I am a Nurse, not a Hero (July 6th 2023) 

 

Organiser

HiSS PGR Conference Organiser - “Integrative approaches to Healthcare: design, innovation, and future steps” - 2022-2023 

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