Dr Lucyna Gozdzielewska
Lecturer
School of Health and Life Sciences
Lucyna Gozdzielewska is a lecturer in Adult Nursing and the Master of Public Health programmes, and she currently leads the Infection Prevention and Control in a Global Context 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 GCU, and in 2021 she completed her PhD, focusing on the 6-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, mainly concerning hand hygiene. Her most recent work involves a contribution to a study evaluating the implementation of alcohol-based hand rubs at the point of care in a hospital in Cameroon, and secondary research projects commissioned by the World Health Organization, including an updated systematic review of national infection prevention interventions for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, and a scoping review of interventions for the prevention of healthcare-associated infection in primary care.
Lucyna is currently supervising a PhD project focusing on the behavioural, environmental, and microbiological investigation of the use of handwashing sinks in hospital settings.