Alison Hartley
Biography
Alison currently works as Associate Dean (Learning and
Teaching) in the Faculty of Health Studies with specific responsibility for the
Faculty academic portfolio, overseeing ongoing development and enhancement of
new and existing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the disciplines
of nursing, midwifery, public health, healthcare leadership, radiography, occupational
therapy, physiotherapy and paramedic science.
The role includes strategic oversight of placement capacity expansion
activity, apprenticeships, development of digital and simulated learning
experiences, and embedding service user and carer involvement across all
curricula. Alison has extensive experience
in curriculum design and approval, across a range of PSRBs and University
quality assurance markers and has created new curricula herself in Pharmacy,
Physical Associate, Medicine and Foundation Year programmes.
Alison is a member of the Faculty Leadership team and
represents the Faculty on many University governance committees including
Senate and is Deputy Chair for the University Learning and Teaching Committee. In her time in the Faculty, Alison has taken on
additional responsibilities when Faculty staff, students or the business has
needed some support, including for example a temporary secondment into the role
of Head of School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at a time of organisational
change.
In addition to her role in the Faculty, Alison has many
years experiences as a manager and as a mentor for colleagues across the University,
including supporting staff through promotion pathways and Advance HE fellowship
progression and is an experienced investigator for staff and student casework. She is involved in many University working
groups across academic and professional services and within the Faculty has
commissioned several cross-disciplinary quality enhancement projects,
supporting projects to completion to improve our staff and student
experience.
Prior to joining the Faculty of Health Studies, Alison
worked in the University’s Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Pharmacy and
Medical Sciences. Her academic career
began with a spilt clinical/academic role in the School of Pharmacy at the
University of Bradford before eventually making the move to a full-time
academic role as Programme Leader for the MPharm, leading the team through the
introduction of Team Based Learning across the curriculum. She remains a registered Pharmacist and spent
most of her clinical practice background in community pharmacy settings,
providing pharmacy services and running the businesses she worked
in. She always chose to work in communities with high levels of
deprivation, specialising in substance misuse and remains driven in all her
work by the social injustice of health inequalities.
In addition to her full time role, Alison is a part-time PhD
student in the final stages of write up.
Her study takes a longitudinal and qualitative exploration of the use of
social networking in undergraduate healthcare students, this has resulted in the
University of Bradford leading a Positive
Digital Communities workstream in an Office for Students commissioned
multi-site project.
Research
Collaborative and active learning
Student-led peer learning
Use of social networks to support student experience
Teaching
Alison teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on topics including:
Public Health
Determinants of Health
Health Inequalities
Substance Misuse
Pharmacological treatment of pain