Dr Lucyna Gozdzielewska
Senior Lecturer
School of Health and Life SciencesLucyna (Lucy) Gozdzielewska is a Senior Lecturer on the Adult Nursing and the Master of Public Health programmes, and she currently leads the Delivering Excellence in Care module. Lucyna is also a member of the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) Research Group where she leads the Applied Infection Prevention and Control Interventions workstream.
Lucyna completed her BA (Hons) in Nursing Studies in 2014 from Glasgow Caledonian, and in 2021 she completed her PhD, focusing on the six-step technique for the application of alcohol-based hand rubs for healthcare staff. She has been involved in a variety of research projects and systematic reviews conducted by the SHIP Research Group.
Her most recent work includes a systematic review, commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the effectiveness of infection prevention interventions in long-term care facilities, a WHO-commissioned scoping review of interventions to prevent healthcare-associated infection in primary care, and a Delphi survey, commissioned by NHS Education for Scotland (NES), to achieve consensus on the infection prevention and control educational competencies for inclusion in the national education framework for the specialist IPC workforce.
Lucyna is currently supervising, as Director of Studies, a PhD project examining the behavioural, environmental and microbiological aspects of handwashing sink use in hospital settings, and is also a secondary supervisor for a PhD project exploring the potential of bacteriophages as an innovative therapeutic approach to managing chronic diabetic foot ulcers.