Oladayo Bifarin

• Senior Lecturer School of Nursing and Advanced Practice, Liverpool John Moores University

Oladayo is a Clinical academic- Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Research & Effectiveness Lead at Mersey Care NHS FT, Liverpool, and a Senior Lecturer (Mental Health Nursing). He holds an interest in the process of professional socialisation in nursing and nurse education.

Oladayo is an applied health researcher with keen interests in examining Mental Health Care pathways across the lifespan, with a specific focus on understanding the influence of culture on caregiving process and reducing health inequalities. Oladayo is passionate about increasing research capability and capacity for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Healthcare Professionals (NMAHPs), enabling knowledge mobilisation from clinical practice to clinical development and research implementation.

Oladayo is a Senior Research Leader (SRL) within the NIHR Senior Research Leader Programme for Nurses and Midwives. This programme is designed to support nurses and midwives in leadership roles, enabling them to drive research excellence, build collaborative networks, and strengthen the use of evidence-based practices in healthcare. As an SRL leader, Oladayo is dedicated to fostering innovation in nursing research, shaping policy and practice, and mentoring the next generation of clinical and applied health researchers.

Oladayo teaches on pre- and post-registration nursing modules such as Evidence Based Practice and contributes to teaching on ethics, clinical governance, social gerontology and Qualitative research paradigm and methods.

At a doctoral level, he has expertise in qualitative research, with a specific focus on approaches underpinned by realist, contextualist and radical constructionist epistemological frameworks. Oladayo is a member of INTEDEM academy, a taskforce examining inequalities in Dementia Care across Europe and a member of Global Mental Health Cultural Psychiatry (Multi-morbidity) group. At the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford, Oladayo bagged his doctorate study where he explored intersections between culture, sociodemographic change, and family caregiving, pertaining to care provision for older relatives living with long-term health conditions in mainland China.

He leads "Count Me In" at Mersey Care NHS FT, an inclusive system expanding research opportunities for patients and service users. He has also influenced policy, including "Research Demand Signalling: Mental Health Nursing," contributing to NIHR Highlight Notice Commissioning and being cited in international guidelines like the International Council of Nursing's mental health nursing policies. I serve in the the NIHR Predoctoral Award funding committee (health and care professional funding stream).

• –present Senior Lectuer - Mental Health Nursing, Liverpool John Moores University

• 2018 Edge Hill University, Nursing

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