Dr Joanna Richards

Senior Lecturer

School of Allied and Public Health
joanna.richards@chester.ac.uk
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I started my career in Health Promotion. My roles have included being a WHO Healthy Cities Team Leader in Greenwich, Programme Co-ordinator for a Government Health Action Zone in Wolverhampton and the Manager of a Health Promotion Department in the NHS.

I am also an experienced educator with over 17 years experience of teaching Health and Social Care and Public Health in schools, Further and Higher Education.

I am the Programme lead for the Doctorate in Public Health. I teach public health and research at all levels, from level 4 to level 8.

I am a doctoral primary supervisor.

I am a qualitative researcher with a sociological perspective on Public Health and policy. My research area is feminist theory. I am interested in gendered perspectives on health, health policy and the representation of women in the media.

I have an interest in Foucauldian theory and discourse analysis. As a Public Health Practitioner I specialised in health policy and strategy, and the WHO settings approach to schools, workplaces and cities.

RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE INSTITUTE

  • Culture and Society Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute
  • Health and Wellbeing Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute
Simply academic or damaging. What are the implications of academic stereotypes for women?
13 Dec 2023Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis
Co-authors: Richards J

DEGREES

  • BSc in Anthropology
    University College London, London, United Kingdom30 Sep 1990 - 30 Jun 1993
  • MSc in Health Promotion
    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom30 Sep 1993 - 28 Sep 1994
  • PGCE
    University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom10 Sep 2009 - 28 Jun 2011
  • Doctorate in Education
    University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom30 Sep 2016 - 7 Dec 2021

 

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Registered General Nurse
    Oxford School of Nursing, Oxford
  • Breastfeeding Counsellor
    National Childbirth Trust, London, United Kingdom

 

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Senior Fellow (SHHEA)
    Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, United Kingdom