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Professor Denise Prescott
M.B.A., M.A., B.A., P.G.C.E (HE), M.C.S.P., SFHEA

Education Projects Lead, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
HLS Education Directorate Professional Services
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HLS Education Directorate
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Contact

Prescotd@liverpool.ac.uk

Professional Activities

Over the past 20 years, Denise has worked in higher education institutions and held a number of different educational roles. One of her earliest achievements at the University was in her role as Physiotherapy Clinical Placement Lead, where Denise developed a North West Regional common assessment tool for physiotherapy students in collaboration with academic colleagues from four other Universities and with partners from professional practice. The assessment tool continued to be used for over a decade with physiotherapy students, and has since formed the basis for a national model.

Denise is a strong advocate for student-centred higher education that places emphasis on graduate employability. She takes a keen interest in ensuring that the education of health professionals at all levels is shared through the involvement of service users and carers, and for the past decade she has been an invited member of the North West Allied Health Professions Network.

A Professor of Healthcare Science, Denise has led the development of innovative education programmes across health care and beyond, in collaboration with employers; supporting workforce transformation and the development of new roles to meet the demands of contemporary health and social care practice. This has always been undertaken with a keen interest in service user and carer involvement in healthcare education development and delivery. Denise has a significant track record of successful strategic partnership development, organisational change management, strategy development, implementation and delivery.

Her current research activity is concerned with digital innovation and it's use to support clinical simulation.

Selected Professional Activities

External Administrative or Committee Role

  • Nursing, Midwives and AHPs Research Strategy Implementation Group, Invited (2021 - 2023) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Member INTED Advisory Board (INTED, 2021) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Council of Deans for Health, Invited (2020 - 2023) (External Administrative or Committee Role)

Internal Administrative or Committee Role

  • University Board of Discipline (University, 2022) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Health & Life Sciences Industry Liaison Board (Faculty, 2021 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Health & Life Sciences Education England (HEE) Liaison Group (Faculty, 2021 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • HLS Faculty Education Leadership Team (Faculty, 2020 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Chair of SHS Board of Examiners (School / Institute, 2020 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • HLS Faculty Education Committee (FEC) (Faculty, 2016 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Chair HLS • Faculty Progress Committee for Schools of Veterinary Science, Medicine, Psychology & Life Sciences ( (Faculty, 2015 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)

Conference Roles

  • Learning through COVID19: using digital technology to compare undergraduate clinical placement competency data, before and after the global pandemic at Virtual Physiotherapy UK 2021 (Online, 2021)
  • Resilience Characteristics of Healthcare Students During a Pandemic at NETS Conference: Advance HE (online, 2021)

Examination Roles

  • Manchester Metropolitan University, BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy (UG, 2009 - 2013)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Nursing, Midwives and AHPs Research Strategy Implementation Group, Invited (2021 - 2023)
  • Strategic Health Higher Education Partnership (SHEP), Invited (2020 - 2023)
  • North West AHP Supply and Transformation Board, Invited (2020 - 2023)
  • Member INTED Advisory Board (INTED, 2021)
  • Council of Deans for Health, Invited (2020 - 2023)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • University Board of Discipline (University, 2022)
  • Health & Life Sciences Industry Liaison Board (Faculty, 2021 - 2023)
  • Health & Life Sciences Education England (HEE) Liaison Group (Faculty, 2021 - 2023)
  • HLS Faculty Education Leadership Team (Faculty, 2020 - 2023)
  • Chair of SHS Board of Examiners (School / Institute, 2020 - 2023)
  • HLS Faculty Education Committee (FEC) (Faculty, 2016 - 2023)
  • Chair HLS • Faculty Progress Committee for Schools of Veterinary Science, Medicine, Psychology & Life Sciences ( (Faculty, 2015 - 2023)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Lecturer in the Directorate of Physiotherapy.
  • Director of Continuing Professional Development, The School of Health Sciences.
  • Director of Studies for the MSc Advanced Healthcare in Practice