Lara Alamad
Lara is a Senior Lecturer at the Elizabeth Bryan Multiple Birth Centre. This role includes research involving multiple birth families, development of education resources for health and social care professionals and working with 3rd sector organisations to raise the profile of the needs of multiple birth families.
She has been involved in two research projects concerning health visitors' experiences of supporting multiple birth families and is currently undertaking a PhD exploring the experiences of adolescent identical female twins.
Lara qualified as a Registered Children’s Nurse in 2003 and has enjoyed a varied career working within orthopaedics, perioperative care, neonates and clinical research. She subsequently gained M.Ed and MA qualifications in Education and Childhood and Youth Studies respectively and moved into higher education in 2016, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate students, leading at module and course level.
She is passionate about supporting families, child-centred care and providing practice-focused education to increase the quality of care provision for children, young people and families