I joined the physiotherapy team at SGUL as a Senior Lecturer in October 2020.
I enjoy teaching on the BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy and MSc (pre-registration) Physiotherapy programmes. I am module lead for PTY602/712 Personalised Professional Development module; and work/learn with students on PTY703 Human Behaviour & Rehabilitation, PTY504/702 Evaluation & Research modules.
I am Career tutor for BSc(Hons)Physiotherapy and MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration) programmes - a role that builds on my experience of working as a Professional Advisor (CPD) at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (2011 - 2018).
I am also deputy course director for MSc (pre-registration) Physiotherapy programme.
I qualified as a physiotherapist in 1988, and have worked as a children’s physiotherapist, a physiotherapy lecturer and a Professional Advisor at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
This combination of roles, and successful completion of an MSc Interprofessional Health & Welfare Studies and a PhD in Social Sciences have fed my interest in/understanding of the politics that shape (& are shaped by) physiotherapy’s professional identities & practices; and a commitment to challenge the discourses/structures that compromise equality and diversity within physiotherapy.
I have an abiding interest in the dynamic relationship between politics - profession – practice. This interest has been fed & developed through my experiences of being a CSP Steward, a professional adviser, a physiotherapy educator & through my PhD research.
My PhD in Social Sciences created a space for thinking sociologically about physiotherapy as a practice profession. This process of making the familiar strange has uncovered tensions between knowing & doing running through physiotherapy’s history.
My thesis ‘Becoming a practice profession: a genealogy of physiotherapy’s moving/touching practices’ offers an historic perspective for understanding physiotherapy’s current position & for thinking critically about its future.
BSc(Hons)Physiotherapy
- PTY504 Evaluation & Research
- PTY602 Personalised professional development [module lead]
MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration)
- PTY702 Evaluation & Research
- PTY703 Human Behaviour & Rehabilitation
- PTY712 Personalised professional development [module lead]
Other teaching responsibilities:
- Careers lead
- Research project supervision (BSc(Hons)Physiotherapy Year 3/MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration) Year 2)
- Personal tutor & Placement link tutor