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Niki Simbani serves as a Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Keele University's School of Nursing & Midwifery, where she teaches pre-registration and post-registration nursing programs with specializations in mental health, perinatal care, and child & adolescent psychiatry. Currently pursuing a PhD sponsored by the School of Nursing & Midwifery, her research focuses on clinical supervision in acute inpatient mental health using Constructivist Grounded Theory. She holds an honorary contract with Derbyshire Mental Health Trust and serves as External Examiner for Buckinghamshire New University's BSc Mental Health Apprenticeship program.
Her research expertise centers on clinical supervision frameworks, restrictive practice reduction through the Safewards model, and decolonizing nursing curricula. As Chair of SNAM's Decolonising the Curriculum initiative and member of Mental Health Academics UK's Policy and Practice subgroup, she actively addresses racial equity in mental health education. Her scholarship examines cultural diversity in nursing, psychological safety cultivation, and innovative assessment strategies for student nurses.
Simbani's publication record demonstrates consistent focus on mental health nursing practice improvement, with recent 2023 articles addressing CALD student nurse support and barriers for Black nurse academics. Her work spans clinical supervision models (2022-2023), Safewards implementation (2016-2022), educational innovations like digital Mental Health Act teaching (2018), and de-escalation strategies (2017). Key thematic threads include cultural competence, staff-student collaboration, and systemic barriers in mental healthcare.
Professional leadership includes Chair of SNAM's Equality, Diversity & Inclusion group, membership in Keele's BAME staff network and Action Research Network, and reviewer roles for Nurse Education in Practice journal. She co-developed the Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF) for personality training and serves as mentor for new academic starters at Keele University.
