Dr. Matt Perry

Biography

Following a diverse career path that included being employed as a Youth Worker, Care and Protection Social Worker and then a Police Officer, I trained as a Paramedic in South Australia in 2006. I worked in clinical practice for about 10 years and then following the development of a successful project to improve prehospital education in Penang, Malaysia I moved to an academic career in the UK.

Since arriving in the United Kingdom I have led developments in the paramedic programme at Oxford Brookes University and established the paramedic subject area at the University of Gloucestershire. Since then I have also worked as the Course Director for the the paramedic BSc programme at Coventry University.

I am the lead for Paramedicine at the University of Bradford. I completed my PhD in 2023, which focused on patient experience of paramedic interventions. I hold a keen interest in building research capacity and supporting the continued development of the paramedic profession. This, in my view, needs to lead to a global understanding of the role of paramedics within any healthcare system.