Academic Expert Profiles
Experts in the faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences
Our Health, Education and Life Sciences faculty has an abundance of academics with a wealth of knowledge and a passion for teaching. Our experts range from healthcare professionals to sports coaches, all of whom have experience working in the industry they teach.
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Nicola Clarke
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Nicola is a registered mental health nurse and is currently a senior lecturer with over two decades experience of learning and teaching at BCU, teaching reflection and reflective practice, academic skills, and mental health nursing.
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School of Health Sciences
Jennie is a Performance Nutrition Practitioner who is passionate about applying sports nutrition knowledge into practice. She has 10 years’ experience of working within professional sport.
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School of Education and Social Work
Tina is a Senior Lecturer in Education. She is joint course lead of the Masters in Education (taught) programme.
Read moreViji Ahanath
School of Health Sciences
Viji is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering and Course Director for two MSc programmes - MSc Medical Engineering Applications for Healthcare and MSc Medical Imaging Technology.
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CSPACE
The Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE) is an inclusive research collective consisting of staff from the School of Education and Social Work, faculty and University colleagues and the Doctoral Research College.
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The Centre for Life and Sport Science (C-LaSS) is dedicated to interdisciplinary research between life sciences, biomedicine, sport physiology, psychology and performance.
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C-SCHaRR is a community of health and social care professionals, scholars and students who work together to identify, examine and implement evidence-based high-quality health and social care.
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