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Our academic staff

Academic staff in our School carry out teaching and research in all areas of health and social care, including pedagogy, impact of government policy, and public engagement in improving services.

Dean

Professor Winifred Eboh
Dean of School of Health and Social Care - Professor, School of Health and Social Care

Academic members of staff

Katalin Abdul-Hamid Balog
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Ellen Serwaa Adomako
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Oluwatoyin Ajayi
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Leanne Andrews
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Responses to traumatic events (both positive and negative ie PTSD and posttraumatic growth); Self-compassion and its relationship to health; Risk behaviour in vulnerable populations; Measure development and psychometrics
Louise Andrews
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Oncology and palliative care; Child development; Transition from practice to teaching; Changing equipment provision
Dr Esther Ariyo
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sanjaya Aryal
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Migration, care and gender; Social work, human rights and social justice; Children and youth; Global South and South Asian studies; Diversity and inequalities
Dr Nestor Asiamah
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Gerontology; Physical activity; Psychometrics; Health services
Hala Audi
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Marina Bailey
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Stephanie Baker
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Caroline Bald
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Generative AI and Social Work Histories; Brain Injury Social Care
Sai Bangera
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Bilingualism, Neurodiversity, PPI, EDI
Sally Barbrook
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Nick Barker
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sagaradevi Barratt
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Mental health; Qualitative research methods; Education; Phenomenology; Enactivist approaches
Professor Andrew Bateman
Professor (R) and Director NIHR Research Design Service, School of Health and Social Care
Amanda Baxter
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Gemma Bidwell
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Michelle Biggins
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Hansa Bissoondeeal
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Frances Blumenfeld
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Bolanle Brikinns
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Kathryn Burke
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Gemma Carlier
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Paula Carr
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Anna Caute
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Assistive technology for people with aphasia; Reading and writing impairments in aphasia; Gesture and Alternative and Augmentative Communication; Telehealth
Katie Chadd
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Stroke rehabilitation; Patient and public involvement; Real-world data and routine clinical data; Health inequalities and public health
Dr Kathryn Chard
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Simone Coetzee
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Participatory action research and critical ethnography; Organisational case study &ndash sustainable health and social care; Third sector health and social care involvement; Social enterprises; People with learning disabilities; Occupational science; Food growing as a tool for community development and individual wellbeing; Permaculture as a working approach to promote occupational, social and environmental justice; The Occupational Experience of People with Different Abilities in a Horticultural Social Enterprise
Susan Collins
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Catherine Constable
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Child and adolescent mental health issues Working with service users with acute and on going mental health issues Service development
Stacey Cook
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Natalie Cowan
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Fay Crawford
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Mayra Crean
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Thomas Currid
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Christine Daley-Fennell
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Chronic Kidney Disease with an emphasis on Haemodialysis therapy; Attrition in Pre-registration Nursing education; Student Fitness to Practise; The experience of Black and Minority Ethnic students in Higher Education
Dr John Day
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Generational sociology; Individualisation
Stacie De Klerk
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare
Director of the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing and Professor (R), School of Health and Social Care
Dr Tugce Dolen
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Zoe Dovaston
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Adult Mental Health
Dr Ashish Dwivedi
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Winifred Eboh
Dean of School of Health and Social Care - Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Donna Edwards
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Hannah Evans
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Tim Evans
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr David Everiss
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Katherine Farrow
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Berne Ferry
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Charlotte Flynn
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Jessica Foulkes
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sara Garib-Penna
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Autism and Neurodiversity; Impact of speech sound disorders
Selena Goodchild
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Football as an intervention for young people with Learning Disabilities; The link between occupation and health promotion; Social inequalities and youth offenders
Dr Timothy Goodchild
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Christopher Green
Faculty Progress and Assessment Officer (Social Sciences) - Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Critical evidence synthesis in health professions education; Interprofessional education and collaborative person-centred practice; The contribution of theory and pedagogy to health professions education; Critical and post-structuralist perspectives on health professions education discourse; Innovative and critical pedagogies in curriculum design
Professor Gill Green
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Social experience of long term illness; Cultural aspects and access to healthcare; Violence and access to HIV care; Drug use and offender health
Dr Peter Hall
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Lizabeth Halsey
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Access to primary care for special needs patients.; Quality of care for special needs patients.; Safeguarding issues pertaining to special needs patients.
Jayne Hannah
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Michelle Harrison
Practice Educator, School of Health and Social Care
Edward Holt
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Interpersonal Relationships and the therapeutic relationship; Delivery of nurse education using the Work Based Learning Model
Aisha Howells
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Child Sexual Abuse; Domestic Abuse; Creative Social Work; Practice Education
Yara Issa
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sara Jalali-Farahani
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (IPHW), School of Health and Social Care
Helen Jocelyn
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Victoria Joffe
Dean of Integrated Health and Care Partnerships - Professor (R), School of Health and Social Care
Dr Stephen Joseph
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Nelly Joye
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Long-term outcomes of children with DLD; Literacy and Language links; School-based SLT provision/service delivery models; Routes to SLT
Professor Anuj Kapilashrami
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Pelagia Kaplanidou
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Drasko Kascelan
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Bilingualism/Multilingualism; Autism; Developmental Language Disorder; Neurodiversity
Dr Jasmeet Kaur
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Iain Keenan
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Issues related to literacy and numeracy; Dignity in care; Work based learning
Dr Mary Kennedy
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Schwartz Rounds in Health Professionals’ Education; Education and training through simulation: Evaluating the experience of staff after the Virtual Dementia Tour; The use of story work in an age inclusive dementia service: a participatory action research study; Improving Post Diagnostic Support & Quality in Dementia Services: Service Evaluation Report; Exploring the Education and Training Needs of Mental Health Nurses Caring for Clients with Urinary Incontinence: An Action Research Study; The Effect of Incontinence on Sexuality: A Nurse Patient Perspective; The Role of Clinical Supervision in Nursing; Dementia Care; End of Life Care; Use of creative arts in health & social care; Use of narratives / storytelling in healthcare; Simulation based education; Health & well-being; emotional resilience; Researching lived experience in healthcare; Service Improvement & evaluation
Dr Kanamik Kani Khan
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Rachael-Anne Knight
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Alex Langston
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Alison Lawrence
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Rebecca Laws
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Sarah Lee
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Julie Macleod
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Reza Majdzadeh
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Equity in Health; Generating and using evidence to support wise decisions; Research with people, not for people; Health System Resilience to Crises; Expanding Health Services; Geopolitical Determinants of Health; Artificial Intelligence in Health Policy
Dr Anthony Mc Grath
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Christopher McCormack
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Steve McMellor
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Work related stress and burnout; Pedagogy
Professor Susan McPherson
Deputy Director of IPHW and Professor (R), School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Therapy outcomes and effectiveness; Social care, fostering and adoption; Chronic depression: long term psychotherapy, management in primary care, informal caring; Psychiatric labelling; Social history and history of health and care; Mental health inequalities
Raihana Mohammed
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Emily Murray
Director of the Centre for Coastal Communities and Reader, School of Health and Social Care
Harriet Nairn
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Nameeka Najam
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Kelvin Ncube
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Bryony Nicholas
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Jason Niggli
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Ijeoma Okolo
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Ana Olea Fernandez
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Michael O'Regan
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Matthew Osborne
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Trauma care; Advanced nursing practice; Nursing Clinical Skills
Bryan Paddison
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sarita Panday
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Public Health, Health Services and Primary Health Care
Rachael Parsons
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Elizabeth Pearson
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Stacey-Anne Penny
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Anna Pettican
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Occupational therapy and developing, implementing, and evaluating complex health and social care interventions that address health inequities, through promoting movement, physical activity, and community participation
Caitlin Phillips
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Sarah-Jayne Pipe
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Stephen Pitt
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Katherine Pleace
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Richard Pratt
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Julie Puttock
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Wendy Rajah
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Matumo Ramafikeng
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Ursula Read
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Global mental health; Participatory research and arts-based methods; Anthropology and ethnography of mental health; Mental health in Africa and the global South, specifically Ghana; Spirituality and religion in mental health care, including the use of traditional and faith healers; Human rights, social justice and mental health activism; Mental health and lived experience
Dr Joseph Rehling
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Sarah Richardson
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
María Miranda Rivera
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Prevention of speech, language, communication and swallowing difficulties; Dysphagia; Palliative and end of life care; Practice-based learning in health education; Health education in higher education
Dr Konstantinos Roussos
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Social Work and Social Welfare policy and practice discourses; Grassroots welfare movements; Commons, prefigurative politics and alternative economies; Democratic engagement and involvement in health and welfare services; Postructuralist Discourse Theory
Dr Milagros Ruiz
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Shabnam Sagar
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sevil Savi-Karayol
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Tracey Scarth
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Gert Scheepers
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Vikki-Jo Scott
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Advanced Clinical Practice; Continuing Professional Development
Seema Sharma
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Liliane Silva
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Imogen Smale
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Alicia Smith
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Professor Ewen Speed
Professor, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Governance and citizenship in context of health and healthcare; Neoliberalism, the third sector and health care provision; Discourse analysis, interpretive policy analysis
Dr Alison Spencer
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Sarah Steele
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Jonathan Stringer
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Shamala Sundaray
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Danny Taggart
Reader (R), School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Community Psychology; Mad Studies; Trauma based approaches to mental health care; Evaluation of Social Care interventions; Parent Infant Mental Health; Impact of child abuse on adult functioning and engagement with public services
Dave Taylor
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Penelope Taylor
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Adrian Thackeray
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Jennie Todd
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Lived experience and self-management of chronic illness
Dr Antonella Trotta
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Psychobiological pathways from childhood adversity to severe mental illnesses; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Cheyne Truman
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Claire Tyler
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Arabella Valadas Marques
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Ioanna Vasilopoulou
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Language and Literacy Developement; Inclusivity in Education; Dyslexia and Reading fluency in L1 and L2; Factors influencing reading performance and language learning
Teresa Wagstaffe
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Emily White
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Alexandra Whithair
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Tracey Williams-Macklin
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Nichola Williamson
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Interprofessional and cross partnership collaborative working; Professional/clinical practice in community stroke provision for working age adults; Occupational Therapy - Diverse practice placements
Esther Wilson
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Aaron Wyllie
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr ZhiMin Xiao
Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Causal Inference; Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice; Data Science for Health and Education; Child Health; Digital Education; Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT); Human Rights Abuse in the UK; Injustice and its Impact on Health; Institutional Child Abuse; Women's Abuse of Men and Children; Racism and Health; Mixed Methods Research

Research members of staff

Victor Ashby
Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Roomi Aziz
Senior Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Smruti Bulsari
Senior Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Sally Burrows
Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Inclusive Involvement methods for marginalised and excluded groups
Ben Gould
Research Fellow, School of Health and Social Care
Ahang Kareem
Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests: Nutrition and Health Program Development; Public Health emergency preparedness and response; Cancer Surveillance and Epidemiology; Community Health and Empowerment in Humanitarian Settings; Measuring and Addressing Inequalities in Health Systems Performance
Dr Rachel Marrow
Senior Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Julia Vlahovic
Senior Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Ruoyu Wang
Research Fellow, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Claire Wicks
Senior Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
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