Health Professions staff
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Lesley Ann Docherty
Senior Lecturer
Lesley Ann qualified in 2001 from UCE and worked at Selly Oak Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital until joining the University in 2014. She worked in the Stroke Unit and supported patients in the Burns Unit and ITU. Lesley Ann currently holds an honorary contract at a local NHS hospital.
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Dr Martin Figgitt
Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
Martin has a very strong and varied biomedical science background having been engaged in both research activities and clinical diagnostic services. His clinical science experience includes working in hospital blood sciences laboratories performing various blood tests, such as full blood counts, coagulation screening and blood...
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Paul Finnemore
Lecturer in Operating Department Practice
Paul is an Operating Department Practitioner and Alumni of BCU. During his training he attended the Birmingham hospitals circuit rotation for his first year and at City Hospital for his second. Paul initially worked at City Hospital post qualification for three and a half years, and then moved to Birmingham Children’s...
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Victoria Fletcher
Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
Vicki is a Senior Lecturer and the current Course Lead for BSc (hons) Diagnostic Radiography at Birmingham City University. Vicki is a member of the BCU alumni, having completed her BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography at BCU between 2008-2011. She achieved a First Class degree and was awarded the Student of Excellence...
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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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Carol Glaister
Lecturer (part-time) in Speech and Language Therapy
Carol qualified in 1993 from City University, London, and has worked in the NHS ever since, currently part-time as a Macmillan Speech and Language Therapist, working with people with Head and Neck Cancer. She previously worked in Wigan, St Helens and then Camden and Islington in specialist posts in Voice and...
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Dr Martin Goldberg
Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology
Martin has a wide range of expertise which includes clinical and diagnostic microbiology, bacterial molecular biology / genetics, food microbiology / safety, discovery of novel antimicrobial compounds and bacterial physiology. This range of expertise is vital when working in a biomedical environment where a broad knowledge is...
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Dr Lewis Gough
Associate Professor in Nutrition and Physiology
Lewis is part of the Senior Leadership Team in the College of Life Sciences and is the College Academic Lead for REF (Research Excellence Framework). He also holds editorial positions with BMC Nutrition and Frontiers in Sport and Active Living and is known worldwide for his work on sodium bicarbonate supplementation. Lewis...