Meet the RAV team

Researchers with the Risk, Abuse and Violence Research Programme

Programme Leads

Carolin Bradbury-JonesProfessor Caroline Bradbury-Jones

Professor of Gender-Based Violence
Risk, Abuse and Violence Lead

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Image of Nutmeg HallettDr Nutmeg Hallett

Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing
Risk, Abuse and Violence Deputy Lead

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lucy Kelsall KnightDr Lucille Kelsall-Knight

Lecturer in Children’s Nursing
Risk, Abuse and Violence Deputy Lead

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UoB Staff

Dr Joht Singh Chandan

Dr Joht Singh Chandan

Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health

Institute of Applied Health Research

Dr Chandan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Birmingham. His primary research focuses on identifying and addressing health inequalities, supported through novel data science approaches. He has expertise in population health data science, data linkage and medical education.

To date, Joht has spent considerable time working on designing and delivering a public ...

Email
j.s.chandan.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou

Lecturer

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Nikolaos is a lecturer in Nursing and leads the Clinical Health Research MRes Programme. Nikolaos is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa.

Nikolaos is an experienced lecturer and researcher. He has published research papers in scientific journals in the fields of End-of-Life care, nursing education and Delphi Technique. He has ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8587
Email
n.efstathiou@bham.ac.uk

Professor Heather D. Flowe

Professor Heather D. Flowe

Professor of Psychology

Professor Heather Flowe’s research is centered on understanding episodic memory, particularly witness memory retrieval processes, using both experimental and applied approaches. She develops memory enhancing, broad reach, low-cost procedures that are integrated into legal systems around the world, such as VR 3D Interactive lineups.

Heather is the Director of Global Engagement for the ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4925
Email
h.flowe@bham.ac.uk

Mrs Teresa Shalofsky

Mrs Teresa Shalofsky

Associate Professor in Midwifery
Lead Midwife for Education

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Teresa is an Associate Professor and Lead Midwife for Education. Teresa leads on the development, delivery and management of midwifery education within the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Teresa is a registered midwife and has previously held a number of academic leadership portfolio roles to include workforce development and transformation, and learning and teaching. Teresa has extensive ...

Email
t.shalofsky@bham.ac.uk

Professor Julie Taylor

Professor Julie Taylor

Head of School of Nursing & Midwifery
Professor of Child Protection

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Julie Taylor is Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a nurse scientist specialising in child maltreatment and Professor of Child Protection. Current work is focused on child sexual abuse; disclosures of abuse; neglect; and child abuse linked to faith and belief. Julie also has a strong focus on developing strategic research leadership. In 2018 she was appointed to the Research ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8671/+44 (0)7855 368850
Email
j.taylor.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Christopher Wagstaff

Dr Christopher Wagstaff

Senior Lecturer
Programme Director for MSc in Nursing

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Chris Wagstaff is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He worked for the NHS for 14 years before entering Higher Education.  He is a clinical nurse specialist in mental health and brings this experience to his role.

Chris’ responsibilities as the program director for the MSc in nursing are to ensure the design and delivery of high-quality learning opportunities for ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8589
Email
c.wagstaff@bham.ac.uk

External RAV Partners

Elizabeth Dartnell

Elizabeth Dartnall is a health policy specialist and has postgraduate degrees in Psychology and Science. She manages the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) in South Africa. With over 6500 members the SVRI is one of the largest global networks for advancing research on violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC) and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality. Liz previously worked as the Senior Programme Manager for the African Medical and Research Foundation, in the Mental Health Research Unit at Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand and for both the South African and Western Australian Departments of Health. Her research interests include vicarious trauma and the prevention of sexual violence.

Dr Geoff Debelle

Dr Geoff Debelle (MB, BS, FRACP, FRCPCH) is a consultant paediatrician, based in Birmingham, UK. He began as a consultant paediatrician at Monash University Department of Paediatrics and then at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Australia, in 1981. In 1989, he joined Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where he worked until retirement from full-time practice in 2017. He has practiced in both general and community paediatrics paediatric since 1974, specialising in child protection. He currently chairs Birmingham Children’s Hospital’s Child Protection peer review meetings.

Geoff is currently Designated Senior Doctor, Child Safeguarding in Birmingham, a position held since 2000 and was a member of the Birmingham Children Safeguarding Board’s Child Death Overview Panel until July 2017. He was a member of UK’s NICE Guideline Development Group for Child Maltreatment and sat on the National Executive Committee of BASPCAN (British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect). He was a founding member of West Midlands BASPCAN and chaired the branch on two occasions.

Geoff was appointed Honorary Clinical Research Fellow in the Institute of Clinical Sciences’ Risk Abuse and Violence programme, University of Birmingham in October 2016, where he is currently engaged in research into self-harm and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). His other research interests include abusive head trauma, FGM, FII and evaluation of ‘place-based’, trauma-focused interventions.  He is a UK member of Euro-CAN.

Geoff was the Officer for Child Protection, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), UK, and chaired the Standing Committee on Child Protection for the College from 2014 - 2018. He has represented the College on many UK governmental child and independent sector child protection committees and working groups, including a recent Department of Health working group on primary prevention of child sexual abuse.

Geoff has extensive experience in child protection and has contributed to primary research and the medical literature. He provides advice to colleagues, Police and Social Services, regionally and nationally. He is very much looking forward to contributing to Inter-CAP.

Geoff Debelle

Claire O’Reilly

Claire O’Reilly (BDS BSc MFDS RCPS (Glasg)) is a qualified dentist and Academic Clinical Fellow in the specialty of Paediatric Dentistry at Birmingham Dental Hospital.  She is an expert member of the Solihull Research Ethics Committee for the Health Research Authority and she also has an interest in patient safety, sitting on the Patient Safety Faculty within Dental Services at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.  Her previous recent involvement in oral health epidemiology field work with five-year olds, seeing the levels of unmet dental need, has sparked her interest to hopefully pursue her own research in this area.

Claire O’Reilly

Richard Salkeld

Richard has been an RMN for over 20 years, working in services for those with severe and enduring mental illness, including Acute Inpatient, Crisis Resolution and for the last 10 years managing Assertive Outreach services, covering complex inner city communities. He has a passion for person-centred service delivery, designing and evaluating shared training programmes for staff and service users, with a strong focus on co-production.

Richard completed his Master’s programme in 2010 and has since maintained his interest in clinical research and its application to practice within his role in Assertive Outreach, with a particular focus on personal recovery, exploring issues around managing risk, engagement and substance use.

Richard is currently undertaking research on the experience of Older people using substances within the Masters to Doctorate Bridging Programme via UHB/UoB, with a view to develop funding toward his PhD.

Richard Salkeld