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Discover the people behind health and social care at Essex

The School of Health and Social Care is home to academic experts, dedicated professionals, and the future of health and social care research.

Our academic staff hold various posts within the department, deliver excellence in the teaching of our modules, and conduct research in a wide range of specialisms.

Our professional services staff are responsible for the day-to-day operation of the department, supporting the delivery of our teaching and our research.

Our research students investigate a broad range of exciting topics and are supervised by our academic staff.

Our honorary staff are invited to teach and research in our School due to their wealth of experience and knowledge in their specialist areas.

Our Service Users Reference Group (SURG) is made up of service users, carers and volunteers. They generously share their perspectives and are involved with teaching sessions, student interviews, curriculum development, research activity and more.

 

Contact details and further information about the specific interests of our members can be found in their profiles.

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Professor Ewen Speed shortlisted for outstanding research supervisor award

Professor Ewen Speed, who has supervised fourteen doctoral students to completion since 2010, was announced as a finalist in the PhD Supervisor of the Year category at The Postgrad Awards 2022.

Read more about Ewen's nomination
On the right, with her back to the camera, is Selena Hammond from the School of Health and Social Care. On the left are two students. The student in the middle has her elbow resting on the arm of her chair, her hand pointing up. Selena is holding a piece of sterile bandage against the hand, as part of a demonstration on how to make a splint. Several other students are sitting in the background.

Selena Hammond demonstrating how to make a splint in an MSc Occupational Therapy class.

Kathy Burke is standing on the left holding a clipboard. To the right is a male nursing student holding an oxygen mask. In front of them is a Sim Man in a hospital bed in one of the School's mock wards.

Kathy Burke teaching a nursing skills course on one of our mock wards.

Erika Kerry from the School of Health and Social Care is standing on the left holding the control for an electronic hoist in her right hand. A mock-patient is on the right, with the hoist straps around her waist and under her arms. She is being lowered in to a blue chair. Two prospective students are standing in the background watching.

Erika Kerry teaching moving and handling skills to Occupational Therapy students

Tessa Wagstaff from the School of Health and Social Care, standing next to a flip chart with "The recovery model and mental health assessment. Barker 2004" written in purple pen. Two students with their backs to the camera are sitting in the foreground.

Tessa Wagstaffe teaching a seminar on mental health nursing.

Nick Barker is standing on the left holding a dental drill. He is pointing at a piece of the drill and talking to an Oral Health Sciences student, who is standing to the right holding a plastic apron.

Nick Barker teaching postgraduate Oral Health Science skills at the Academic Dental Clinic.

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