Professor Winifred Eboh

Biography

Professor Winifred Oluchukwu Eboh Director of Staff Development and Wellbeing and Postgraduate Research Director in the School of Health and Social Care. Winifred is a Registered General Nurse and Midwife who has been teaching in Higher Education since 1998. Her areas of teaching include Research and Evidence-based practice, genetics related to the haemoglobinopathies, namely sickle cell and thalassaemia and disparities in health amongst marginalised communities. She currently teaches undergraduate, postgraduate students and supervises doctoral students. Winifred completed her PhD in 2003 looking at screening services for the haemoglobinopathies and awareness of this group of disorders amongst frontline practitioners. She continues to advocate for the inclusion of sickle cell and thalassaemia in nursing and midwifery curriculum. She co-chairs a working group addressing racism in health and social care and successfully secured funding from Health Education England to develop a website that will provide training for health professionals on racism in healthcare settings: https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/health-and-social-care/dare-to-care She is open to supervise research in the areas of blended learning, sickle cell disorders and the impact of racism in the learning environment for nurses and allied health professions.

Qualifications

• PhD Public Health University of Aberdeen,

• BSc HONS Manchester Metropolitan University,

Appointments

University of Essex

• Director of Staff Development and Wellbeing, Health and Social Care, University of Essex (2020 - present)

• Postgraduate Research Director, Health and Social Care, University of Essex (1/1/2019 - present)

• Lecturer, University of Essex (1/1/2016 - 1/1/2020)

Other academic

• Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Robert Gordon University (2013 - 2015)

• Lecturer, Robert Gordon University (1998 - 2016)