Health Professions staff
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Gillian Rudd
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Lead (MSc Speech and Language Therapy)
Gillian has extensive experience of supporting children and young people with a wide range of communication needs and additional expertise in supporting children and adults presenting with fluency disorders. She promotes a person-centred, solution-focused approach in both her teaching and practice. Gillian is actively engaged...
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Michelle Ryland
Admissions Tutor / Senior Lecturer - Radiotherapy
Michelle qualified from the University of Liverpool and Northern Centre for Cancer Treatment (Newcastle) in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and started work as a therapeutic radiographer at UHCW. She then moved to London in 2001 and worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Chelsea, as Senior 2/Band 6 clinical...
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Louise Scott
Lecturer in Operating Department Practice
Before Louise moved into education, her previous job roles have been fitness instructor, Royal Navy and HGV driver. Being a keen motorcyclist, she has also attended college to learn motorcycle engineering. This varied background has exposed her to a lot of life experiences which gives her a well rounded and balanced approach to...
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Emily Sharp
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Emily completed a Speech and Language Therapy degree at Birmingham City University in 2014. She has now gained a place on the University’s Graduate Teaching Assistant scheme which involves undertaking a PhD and teaching undergraduate students. Emily’s PhD is looking at the risk factors associated with voice problems in teachers...
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Sue Shortland
Associate Professor – Primary Care
Sue qualified as a registered nurse in 1984 and a registered midwife in 1986. Sue worked for over 20 years in general practice as a general practice nurse and then as an advanced nurse practitioner and non-medical prescriber. Sue joined Birmingham City University in 2008 as a Senior Lecturer on the MSc Advanced Practice Course...
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Danny Simeone
Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
Danny qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer at Birmingham City University in 2014. Before joining BCU, he had worked at an NHS major trauma centre in Coventry. Danny has always taken a keen interest in student development and experience during his time in the NHS, taking a lead role with student education within his...
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Gemma Smith
Co-course Lead and Senior Lecturer Medical Ultrasound
Gemma previously worked as a Radiographer and a Sonographer at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust for 15 years before joining the BCU lecturing team. Gemma teaches on both the BSc Medical Ultrasound and MSc Medical Ultrasound courses, specialising in teaching of Obstetric, Gynaecological and Abdominal Ultrasound. Gemma is...
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Nichola Smith
Senior Lecturer
Nichola graduated from Cardiff University in 2012 with a BSc (Hons) in Diagnostic Radiography and Imaging, and has been working in this field ever since. In her clinical duties, Nichola gained experience in various areas of Diagnostic Radiography, including plain film, and Interventional Radiology. Following a Postgraduate...
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Jackie Stephen-Haynes
Professor
Jackie Stephen-Haynes completed her RGN in 1984, specialising in orthopaedics and then, more specifically, rheumatology. Working in a rheumatology specialist unit, her interest in tissue viability began with an audit of wounds and a focus on pressure ulcer prevention. The increasing emphasis on primary care led to Jackie...
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Greg Stretton
Physiotherapy Lecturer
Greg currently works as a lecturer-practitioner Physiotherapist, specializing in Respiratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Renal Medicine, Haematology, Oncology & Palliative Care. He has been teaching in HE for over 15 years but has only been at BCU since April 2023. He currently leads the Foundations of Physiotherapy &...