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Promotion to Personal Chair - Professor Sue Read
Sue Read - Professor of Learning Disability Nursing
Sue Read has been awarded a personal Chair for her national and international standing as an academic in the field of Learning Disability nursing. Sue has become one of the leading international figures in the highly sensitive area of bereavement counselling and end of life care for those with learning disabilities. A distinctive feature of her work is that it not only influences the field of nursing but has been utilised across the whole range of health and social care professions; such multi-professional impact is an outstanding achievement within nursing. Her research has had an increasing impact on client service delivery as well as contributing to professional education and development. As a recognised leader in the field of working with vulnerable populations, Sue continues to drive forward changes to practice through her distinct and unique contributions. Over a period of 15 years she has produced a sustained body of high quality collaborative research into learning disabilities, loss and bereavement along with novel practical aids in the form of a 'toolkit'. By her dedicated focus on these relatively neglected clinical topics, Sue has been able to develop a significant body of research evidence that has begun to shift the quality and character of services for this vulnerable client group.
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