Staff

Mrs Carol Rowe

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

Mr Gavin Rudge

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

Dr Alison Rushton

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 Catherine Sackley

Professor Catherine Sackley

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

Dr Steven Sadhra

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

Ms Ros Salter

Ms Ros Salter

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

Miss Sabina Sanghera

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

Dr B Senthinathan

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

Dr Jonathan Shapiro

Dr Jonathan Shapiro

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

Dr Karen Shaw

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