Lecturer
Nursing and Physiotherapy
Carol Rowe is a lecturer in physiotherapy in the School of Health & Population Sciences.
She is also Head of Student Development and Support for Nursing and Physiotherapy and welfare tutor for physiotherapy. During her time in post she has developed a particular interest in supporting students with dyslexia.
Carol’s clinical background is in ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8595
Email c.rowe@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Gavin Rudge is a research Fellow in the School of Health and Population Sciences. He has 13 years experience in Health Services research and prior to joining the University had a career in the Health Service as an information analyst and a Clinical Audit manager.
His research interests are health geography, quality in healthcare and data mining.
He is ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7852
Email g.rudge@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer Physiotherapy
Nursing and Physiotherapy
Alison Rushton is Physiotherapy Research Lead, in the Nursing and Physiotherapy Department, and Programme Leader for the MRes Health Research (for Allied Health Professionals) and Programme Leader for the MSc Exercise and Sports Medicine (Football) programmes.
Alison has worked within education since 1993 with a focus to teaching and research in the specialist area of ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8597
Email a.b.rushton@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Rehabilitation
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Catherine is Professor of Rehabilitation in Primary Care Clinical Sciences and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She has published nearly 100 papers and has major funding from NIHR streams. She is dedicated to clinical research career development for non-medical clinicians and has supervised many clinical therapists to achieve research degrees.
Catherine is a member of grant ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4198
Email c.m.sackley@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer and Director of Education for Occupational Health
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Steven Sadhra is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Education for Occupational Health at the School of Health and Population Sciences. He is the programme lead for the MSc in Occupational Health and CPD programmes. Steven is also the joint lead for another MSc programme (Science of Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment) which he developed with Environmental Health and Risk ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6008
Email s.sadhra@bham.ac.uk

Regional Manager for Primary Care Research Network – Central England
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Ros Salter is the Regional Manager of the Primary Care Research Network in Central England.
She has many years of experience of working with Academic partners and NHS Trusts delivering research infrastructure through Research Networks.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6505
Email r.a.salter@bham.ac.uk
Doctoral Researcher
Health Economics
PhD: Outcome assessment for use in economic evaluations of interventions for menorrhagia
Supervisors: Prof Tracy Roberts, Dr Emma Frew, Prof Janesh Gupta (Obs and Gynae), Prof Joe Kai (Primary Care)
Sabina Sanghera is currently a Doctoral Researcher in Health Economics. In her research she is attempting to identify which outcome measure is most ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8176
Email sxs574@bham.ac.uk
Senior Horizon Analyst
Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Biruntha is a senior horizon analyst for the medtech team at the National Horizon Scanning Centre, based in the Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics department.
The NHSC provides early warning to national policy makers and the NHS of new and emerging technologies that may require evaluation, consideration of clinical and cost impact, or modification of ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 7657
Email b.senthinathan@bham.ac.uk

Senior lecturer in health service research
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
Jonathan Shapiro is a senior academic who uses his extensive experience of healthcare in the public sector to offer strategic advice and practical solutions to a wide variety of health care organisations both in the UK and abroad. He brings to this role the skills learned over the years as a qualified doctor, a University academic, and the Chair of a large UK Mental Health Trust. He also ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3169
Email j.a.shapiro@bham.ac.uk
Birmingham Research Fellow
Nursing and Physiotherapy
Karen Shaw is a Research Psychologist with a track record in children’s health service development and research. Her work generally focuses on service improvement for children with long-term or life-shortening conditions. Areas of particular interest include transitional care, end-of-life care, user involvement, and psychosocial aspects of childhood illness.
Karen ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8370
Email k.l.shaw@bham.ac.uk