School of Health and Rehabilitation

After a successful career as a practising physiotherapist in London, I moved into Higher Education and am currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Rehabilitation and a member of the Research Institute for Social Sciences at Keele University. At a national level I serve as a representative of both the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and the Health Professions Council (HPC)  on course approval and Fitness to Practise panels.

Lifelong learning and continuing professional development in the political and social context, both as concepts and as practices, are a particular interest of mine and my doctoral thesis and research interests reflect this. In 2009 I was awarded the Jo Campling Memorial Prize by the Academy of Social Sciences for a paper in this area and was previously was awarded a Faculty Learning and Teaching Fellow secondment, during which I completed a project on portfolio development for HE staff.

An area of personal development led to my developing, with colleagues, the first fully online e-module within Keele University; this success has led to other e-learning projects supported by University Innovation Project monies.

I currently teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in School of Health and Rehabilitation and also in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.