Julie has always been interested in teaching, and has been involved in this throughout her career. Prior to taking up an academic role at UoB she was a Clinical Pharmacy Diploma Tutor for Keele University and University of Bath; and a Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist for Aston University. In these roles she gained experience in small and large group teaching in the hospital and university environments. Julie has taught a wide range of clinical pharmacy topics at undergraduate and post-graduate level, current specialisms include mental health and surgery.
Julie is experienced in oral (OSCE’s) and written examinations in undergraduate and post-graduate pharmacy students. This includes writing, marking and moderating assessments in a variety of clinical topics. Julie has been an invigilator for the General Pharmaceutical Council registration exam since 2013.
Julie has had clinical, educational and strategic research accepted for presentation at a number of pharmacy and educational conferences. She was a keynote speaker in the Hospital Pharmacy Europe 2015 conference as the key theme was mental health, and has written articles for publication in a variety of different journals.
Julie has worked professionally with a liaison psychiatry consultant conducting research as part of a PhD, and have led a small research group during this time. This facilitated the capture of patient sensitive data, and evidenced the benefit of our novel pharmacist referral strategy. Our work has always received much interest, and culminated with us being the runners-up in the 2015 BMJ awards in the mental health category.
To maintain clinical skills Julie has a bank contract at SWBH NHS Trust (where she worked as a clinical pharmacist for 16 years prior to moving to academia). To support the COVID-19 pandemic she returned to a clinical pharmacy role at the Trust between March-June 2020.