Dr Heather Stewart
Heather is the Principal Lecturer for the Allied Health Professions, within the School of Health, Social Work and Sport. Heather has responsibility for overseeing the Pre-Registration Allied Health programmes that are regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council. Heather teaches on the BSc and MSc Pre-Registration Physiotherapy programmes, as well as the postgraduate Leadership for Allied Health Professions module.
Heather has many years of experience of curriculum development within professionally and statutory body regulated programmes, with a focus on quality assurance. She has been an external examiner for physiotherapy education at a range of UK institutions, as well as being a panel member for internal programme approval at UCLan. Heather is an education representative for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, overseeing the approval and quality assurance of physiotherapy education nationally.
Heather qualified as a Physiotherapist in 1990 and has worked in a variety of NHS settings, with her clinical career focussing on intensive care and acute surgical management. Heather moved into education in 2001, and began working within Physiotherapy education at UCLan in 2003. She has held many roles within the physiotherapy team at UCLan, including clinical placement co-ordinator, admissions tutor, course leader and professional lead. Heather has been the Principal Lecturer for the Allied Health Professions since October 2020.
Heather completed her PhD in November 2019. This investigated the use of continuing professional development portfolios in undergraduate physiotherapy education, and the influence of these on physiotherapists attitudes to lifelong learning. She presented some of her findings at the World Congress of Physiotherapy in Geneva in May 2019.
- PhD, University of Central Lancashire 2019
- MSc Allied Health Practice, Salford University 2004
- Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy, Queen Elizabeth School of Physiotherapy, Birmingham, 1990
- Quality and Contemporary Education in the Allied Health Professions
- The use of portfolios in undergraduate health education
- Interprofessional Education
- External Examiner, Queen Margaret University, University of Hull
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Education Representative for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
PhD entitled - motivation and engagement of physiotherapists as lifelong learners through the use of a student continuing professional development (CPD) portfolio: a mixed methods exploratory study.
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- World Congress of Physical Therapy, Geneva, May 2019
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