Professor Sue Read

Sue Read, is Professor of Learning Disability Nursing, at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, and is Research Lead for developing research capacity and capability within the School. She has worked in the area of learning disability since 1976. Her PhD involved developing a unique, specialist bereavement counselling and support service for people with learning disabilities in North Staffordshire. She is an international speaker, and has had numerous publications around loss, death, dying and end of life care, particularly in relation to people with a learning disability.

Her research interests include loss, death, dying, end of life care  and bereavement specifically, although not exclusively, with people with a learning disability and aspects of user and carer engagement in research. Sue is primarily interested in applied research that has a demonstrable impact on practice, and has developed several leaflets and booklets to support loss, bereavement and end of life care; Toolkits to promote health access; and has recently developed (in conjunction with people with learning disabilities and other professionals) a flexible, computer based, interactive bereavement tool to support loss and transition.

Sue supervises a number of PhD students and her role within the School ensures that she supports colleagues as they build their research profiles. She sits as a Trustee on two different charities in Staffordshire, and strongly supports the involvement of users and carers across the research continuum,  in education, and as consultants to ensure all nursing education and research programmes work remain ‘fit for purpose’.

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