Susan Carr, PhD, MSc, BA, RN, RHV, HVL, RNT, PGCE, Dip Soc Res, Dip Coaching is a Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Northumbria, England. She is also Associate Director of Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, where she leads public involvement and engagement.
Dr. Carr has experience in a variety of clinical and management roles in public health nursing and a substantial education and research history in primary care and public health. She has held several committee membership roles in the Royal College of Nursing and the Health Visitors Association and is currently a member of the Executive Board of the UK & Ireland Chapter of IFNA. She has also held membership of national funding bodies in the UK. She has developed and directed professional doctoral programs in nursing, midwifery, and public health, supervised a variety of doctoral students, and examined internationally.
Her work is underpinned by a translational philosophy, and she is enthusiastic to collaborate with multiple stakeholders. Her portfolio embraces complex public health interventions, knowledge articulation, understanding, and responding to the needs of hard-to-reach or disengaged populations, and she has won funding from a variety of funders, including the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Dr. Carr’s current research is significantly focused on how family caregiver knowledge and family knowledge about health is acknowledged and integrated into care planning and care delivery. She also explores how health and social care systems include lay knowledge. Through this work, she is seeking to understand the development, role, and contribution of lay knowledge and how family caregivers are integrated into health and social care systems.
For more information, please contact Dr. Carr at [email protected] or follow her @Susan_M_Carr.
You can learn more about Dr. Carr here: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/c/susan-carr/
