Health Sciences staff directory
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Aydan Suphi
Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Aydan worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in the NHS for over 20 years, before moving to higher education in 2012. Her clinical experience includes working with children and young people with language disorders, people with complex needs, including down syndrome, and people from diverse cultural and linguistic...
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Dr Peter Thain
Associate Professor and Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy
As a Chartered Physiotherapist and Sports Therapist, Peter has over a decade of experience working in basketball, football and netball. Peter is currently the clinical lead for the Great Britain Senior Women's Basketball Team, overseeing all performance and medical services. He has travelled the globe working at the...
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Dr Kate Thomson
Associate Professor
Dr Kate Thomson is Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees for Health and leads on all aspects of recruitment, oversight and student experience for PhD (Health) . She is also a member of the Public Health & Therapies department. Kate completed her postgraduate study at the University of Birmingham with a PhD on learning...
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Dr Martin Vreugdenhil
Senior Lecturer in Human Physiology
Martin studied Biomedical Science at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and developed a strong interest in neuroscience, especially in epilepsy. He did his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam (focus on changes in cell physiology in a rat model of epilepsy). After a post-doctoral research position at the...
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Claire Westwood
Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Claire qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist from the University of Reading. She worked as an intermediary with vulnerable defendants in Crown and Magistrates courts before moving to work in the NHS. In the NHS, Claire set up and ran Speech and Language Therapy services in a Youth Offending Team, Violence Reduction Unit,...
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Nick White
Course Leader
Nick is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Radiography at Birmingham City University and also a clinical tutor within the radiotherapy department at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Nick has worked in radiography education for 19 years, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He is...
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Chris Williams
Senior Technician
Chris graduated from Sheffield University in 2000 with a BEng in Chemical Engineering and went on to complete an MSc in Computer science in 2001 at the University of Birmingham. Chris joined the university permanently in 2004 after completing a temporary contract. After working in timetabling and academic planning he...
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Gemma Williams
Research Fellow
Prior to joining Birmingham City University’s Centre for Social Care, Health & Related Research (CSCHaRR), Gemma worked within the public sector and Higher Education in various research/evaluation positions. Her research & evaluation areas included: the effectiveness of accredited offender groupwork programmes, the experiences...
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Nicola Withford-Eaton
Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Prior to qualifying as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), Nicola facilitated self-advocacy groups for adults with learning disabilities and also held an administrative role. She completed a NVQ Level 3 in Business and Administration and gained qualifications in Sign Supported English. Nicola also volunteered at Headway in...
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Olga Woodward
Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
Olga has been working within the paediatric speech and language therapy field since graduating from BCU in 2008. Olga has a broad range of experience within the paediatric field; having worked in community clinics, mainstream schools, special schools and residential settings for young people with learning disabilities...