Inaugural Lecture: Professor Kate Grafton
22 Jan 2025
6.00pm
MB1302, Minerva Building
Event Information
The Lincoln Institute of Advanced Studies is delighted to invite you to the first inaugural lecture of the 2024/25 academic year.
This free-to-attend event is an opportunity to hear from Professor Kate Grafton who will be delivering her lecture: Making a difference locally and globally: advancing education, research, and innovation in allied health
Careers in health and education are often as complex as the organisations within which they are framed. In this lecture Kate will share her journey of professional transformation weaving together three key threads: advancing clinical practice, international collaboration and education, and building research capacity. It illustrates how experience, networks, and collaborative opportunities combine to deliver projects and initiatives that create lasting impacts both locally and globally. This is a call to action for aspiring leaders and practitioners to embrace change, take bold opportunities, and contribute to shaping a better healthcare landscape.
Professor Kate Grafton is currently a Professor of Allied Health Professions Education and Head of the School of Health and Care Sciences at the 红杏影院. With a career spanning physiotherapy clinical practice, education, and academic leadership, she has made significant contributions to allied health professions education and workforce development on locally, nationally, and globally.
Kate qualified as a physiotherapist from Nottingham School of Physiotherapy and then worked for over a decade as a clinical physiotherapist in the NHS, specialising in the management of musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. She then moved to academia and spent the next 20 years working for Sheffield Hallam University undertaking a variety of academic roles including Head of International and as Deputy Head of the Department of Allied Health Professions (AHP) where she was responsible for the postgraduate programmes, research capacity development, external partnerships and collaborative educational developments. In 2019 Kate moved to the 红杏影院 as Head of the School of Health and Social Care.
Kate has worked regionally and nationally to support the development of the musculoskeletal advanced practice workforce and Allied Health Professions research capacity by facilitating local engagement opportunities and has also contributed to national committees and strategy development. Until recently Kate was Vice Chair of the Council for Allied Health Professions Research Strategy Group and was on the steering group contributing to the development and implementation of the NHSE AHP Research and Innovation Strategy for England.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact lias@lincoln.ac.uk.
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