Health Professions staff
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Laura Garbett
BSc ODP Course Leader / Senior Lecturer in Operating Department Practice
Laura is an Operating Department Practitioner registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. Clinical experience includes anesthetic, surgical (scrub), post-anesthetic care and resuscitation. She successfully completed the Resuscitation Council Advanced Life Support Course & European Advanced Life Support Courses to...
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Samuel Geary
Foundation Year Lecturer
I joined the ADD (Academic Development Department) and Birmingham City University in 2018 as a Foundation Year Lecturer. Since then he has been involved in the design and delivery of the Foundation Year programme for the faculty. The Foundation Year allows students to progress onto a number of HELS undergraduate courses....
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Rebecca Gibbons
Lecturer in Academic Skills
Rebecca joined the ADD (Academic Development Department) in January 2019 as a lecturer in Academic Skills. Prior to this, she worked in academic skills roles at the University of Birmingham and the University of Wolverhampton for seven years. She also has experience of teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English for...
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David Gray
Professor of Wound Study
David Gray graduated as Registered Nurse in 1989 from Foresterhill College, Aberdeen (now Robert Gordon University) and with a Postgraduate Diploma in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair from Cardiff University, in 2010. His interest in tissue viability began in 1986 when, as a first ward student nurse, he developed blisters on...
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Katharine Hardware
Programme Director, Non-Medical Prescribing.
Katharine teaches on the following courses: Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses Supplementary Prescribing for Allied Health professionals (V300) at Levels 6 and 7 Prescribing from the Community Practitioner Formulary (V150)
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Sharon Hardwick
Associate Professor Paramedic Science
Sharon has been a paramedic for over 20 years after starting her career with West Midlands Ambulance Service working in Coventry. In 2001 she became a clinical supervisor in what was Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Service, where she supported and mentored newly qualified staff through their training period. As part of...
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Claire Hartley
Senior Lecturer
Claire Hartley is a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) and Senior Lecturer (in acquired communication difficulties) at Birmingham City University. She is also the Programme Director for the Return to Practice in SLT Programme. Her interests include aphasia, motor speech disorders, simulated practice in SLT, and working with...
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Dr Marianne Hensman
Lecturer
Marianne graduated from Leeds Beckett University in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy. She was practising as a physiotherapist from 1999-2007 working in both acute and community settings, latterly specialising in rehabilitation of patients with neurological conditions. Marianne completed her MSc in Continuing Professional...
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Mark Hetherington
Professional Navigator / Senior Lecturer
Mark has been a member of ADD (Academic Development Department) for just over two years but has been employed at BCU since 2006. He was originally a Multimedia content producer for the SALT team in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. After completing his Masters in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Mark...
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Mark Holland
Senior Lecturer / Radiation Protection Supervisor
Mark qualified from the Department of Radiographic studies in Stoke-on-Trent in 1994, having spent most of his training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He worked for four years as a clinical radiographer at Essex County Hospital in Colchester, before being seconded part-time in June 1999 to the role of Hospital...