Ms Emer O'Sullivan

• Qualifications:MSc Public Health, King’s College London, PGCAP in Teaching in Higher Education, Canterbury Christchurch University, PGDip in Ecology and Conservation, Birbeck College, University of London, MSc Development Studies, London South Bank University, PGCE in teaching in Further Education, Greenwich University, MA Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland BA Joint Hons Degree in English and Sociology
• Position:Senior Lecturer in Public Health
• Department:School of Health and Social Wellbeing
• Telephone:+44117 965 6261
• Email:Emer.OSullivan@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Emer joined UWE in January 2024 as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Wellbeing. Emer is teaching across a range of modules on the BSc Degree Apprenticeship in Public Health, MSc in Public health and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing programmes and the international MSc in Public Health at Hainan Medical University, Hainan, China. She supervises masters dissertation students.

Emer is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and completed her PGCAP at Canterbury Christchurch University. Emer has completed an MSc in Public Health from King's College London, an MSc in International Development from London South Bank University and an MA in Sociology from University College Cork, Ireland.

Prior to working at UWE Emer worked as a Senior Public Health Practitioner in the Hackney and City Public Health Team between 2020 and 2023 and worked on a wide range of Covid response activities, providing emergency health protection support to education, social care services and voluntary organisations, in addition to  working on vaccination engagement and tackling vaccine hesitancy for marginalised groups. Following the main Covid -19 emergency response period, Emer worked on a number of projects related to children and young people including developing needs assessments and providing contract management of a number of domestic abuse support and training services, young people's health and wellbeing service and a support service for vulnerable pregnant women.

Prior to this local authority role Emer was a Lecturer in Public Health at Canterbury Christchurch University where she taught and module led on the Foundation degree, BSc degree and MSc degree in Global Public Health across a range of different public and global public health modules for over 3 years.

Emer has also taught a Public Health and Social Care BSc degree at Croydon University Centre and taught health and social care access students in Further Education for several years prior to this.

Before working in formal education Emer worked in the youth and community development sector for a number of years coordinating a number of youth, community, arts, environmental and outdoor education activities in the voluntary sector. Emer's work in the community development sector was focused on advocating for marginalised groups, empowering and facilitating the development of these groups.

Emer's current research interests include; exploring support mechanisms to support low income communities to better prepare and mitigate against the wider impacts of climate change.

Emer is also interested in; sustainable development, urban climate change mitigation strategies in low and middle income countries, gendered global health security narratives during pandemics, refugee women's health inequalities, violence against women and girls, access to health services for women in fragile housing/ informal settlements and housing justice

Area of expertise

Community development, global public health, gender and development, refugee and forced migration issues,  sustainable development in urban areas , health promotion and wellbeing 

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