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Alison Hartley

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