Health Professions staff
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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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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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Dr Melissa Wright-Khan
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics
Melissa joined the department of Speech and Language Therapy as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics in 2006. She is an expert in the Phonetics-Interaction interface having gained a PhD in this area from the University of York in 2005, and has published and presented her research worldwide. She has an MA in Phonetics and...
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Dr Sara Zarti
Course Leader of Master of Public Health Courses & Public Health Lecturer
Sara brings substantial experience of almost 10 years in the public health field and humanitarian and emergencies sector working in World Health Organization (WHO) which focused on different programs, mainly Communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as Public health Emergencies. She has worked with the International...
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Clair Zawada
Faculty Academic Lead and Course Leader MSc Medical Ultrasound
Clair is a Faculty Academic Lead, working on projects and innovations across the Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences. Clair is the course lead for the Post Graduate Medical Ultrasound programme. Clair teaches on the BSc (Hons) Radiotherapy programme, using her background as a therapeutic radiographer to inform...