Health Professions staff
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Helen Hopkins
Course Leader for MSc Radiography
Having qualified from University of Central England (now BCU) in 2000, Helen worked for City Hospital, Birmingham for 13 years. She became an Advanced Practitioner in 2004 as a reporting radiographer. She maintained her clinical expertise by working evening shifts alongside her university work up until October 2013. Having...
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Dr Thomas Hopkins
Senior Lecturer in SLT, Research Coordinator and Deputy Chair
Tom is a psychologist who teaches the psychology strand that exists across several modules within the BSc and MSc Speech and Language Therapy degree course. This includes aspects of developmental psychology, social and cognitive psychology as well as applying psychotherapy to speech and language therapy practice. Having gained...
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Zoe Hunt
Admissions Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Medical Ultrasound
Zoe is a member of the BCU Alumni, as she completed her BSC (Hons) radiography in 2007 since then she has worked at a local NHS trust working her way up to a senior radiographer and then an advanced practitioner in ultrasound. Zoe still works two days per week clinical alongside the university role at a local NHS trust where...
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Dr Wouter Jansen
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Lead (MSc Speech and Language Therapy)
Wouter is one of the course leads for the MSc Speech and Language Therapy and lectures on all 3 SLT programmes offered by the university. He teaches (clinical) linguistics, phonetics, and research methods and is currently the module lead for SPR7003 The Science of Speech, Swallowing and Hearing, SPR7004 Understanding Human...
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Professor Steven Jeffery
Consultant Plastic Surgeon
Steven Jeffery joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a medical student in 1986. He qualified from the Universities of St Andrews and Manchester in 1989, and served as a Medical Officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before completing his basic surgical training, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of...
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Leanne Job
Lecturer in Physiotherapy
Leanne started her physiotherapy career in 2005 at Worcester Royal Hospital where she stayed for 3 years gaining baseline experience in the main areas of physiotherapy. She then joined the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham where she has remained ever since. Here she gained experience in various musculoskeletal...
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Claire Jones
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy
Claire has been a registered physiotherapist with the HCPC since graduating from the University of Birmingham in 2007 MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration). Claire has worked primarily in the NHS but also in the private sector. Claire has worked in a variety of settings within physiotherapy and the majority of this time was...
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Henna Kaur Heir
Senior Lecturer
Henna is part of the Birmingham City University (BCU) alumni having qualified in 2014. She went onto work as a Diagnostic Radiographer working at University Coventry and Warwickshire. During this time, she worked as a rotational radiographer then went onto specialising in CT imaging from 2016. Henna completed her Pg Cert in CT...
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Kathy Kinmond
Chartered Psychologist
Kathy is a Chartered Psychologist, Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist, she is also accredited by BSCAH having completed the BSCAH/Staffordshire University course in Clinical Hypnosis. She has been an academic in Higher education for over 25 years, during which time she has been module leader for several UG modules,...
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Tom Lawrence
Head of the Personalised Care Centre
Tom Lawrence is the head of the Personalised Care Centre and has been engaged in health policy and academic roles since 2016 at Birmingham City University. His primary focus is on integrated and personalised care, where he leads initiatives in research, evaluations, and training. He has collaborated with multiple...