Ms Carole Conroy
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Reader
Biography
Carole is committed to advancing best practice in learning and teaching both within the University and in the wider, global academic and industrial community. A Chartered Health and Safety Practitioner, Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, she first graduated as an Environmental Health Officer. With 14 years of industry experience, her values, purpose, and passion for the work environment’s contribution to protecting and sustaining health led her to seek career opportunities within higher education.
Joining Salford in 2003, she is the programme leader for the suite of MSc Environment and Health programmes accredited by IOSH and IEMA in the School of Science, Engineering & Environment (GEM).
A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, her contribution to practice in learning, teaching, and assessment, is situated in the interface of academia, professional, statutory, and regulatory bodies, and industry. She led significant globally impactful programme and curriculum design as part of her work on the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Professional Standards Committee, appeal panels, and education working parties enhancing global standards, ensuring that systems used globally by the professional body were fair and transparent, and importantly, in keeping with the most up to date practice on diversity and inclusion. IOSH is the only chartered professional body for occupational safety and health, working in over 130 countries worldwide, with a membership of around 49,000 members.
Carole is an experienced, prominent external examiner and validation panel member, nationally and internationally. In collaboration with SPD, she chairs our annual health and safety conference, an influential attraction within the H&S events calendar. Now sitting on the University Senate Learning & Teaching Committee, Carole has previously served on School learning, teaching, enhancement committees; teaching development groups; employability; and technology-enhanced learning working groups. Carole is passionate about advancing academic excellence and instigated and led a school-wide programme leader (PL) mentoring scheme to the development of new programme leaders.
In recognition of her contribution to and innovation of teaching and learning Carole was proposed for, and greatly honoured to receive, the prestigious Institute of Occupational Safety and Health President’s Distinguished Service Award in 2017, one of only a few such awarded in any one year.
Areas of Research
Pedagogy, hand-arm vibration, risk perception
Programme Leadership:
2020 - 2024 MSc Environmental Assessment and Management; MSc Health & Global Environment; MSc Safety, Health & Environment; MSc Sustainability (f/t, p/t)
2012-2017 MSc Environmental Assessment and Management; MSc Health & Global Environment; MSc Safety, Health & Environment; (f/t, p/t)
2006-2012 MSc Safety Health & Environment, MSc Occupational Health, Safety & Wellbeing
2003-2006 MSc Occupational Health & Safety (f/t, p/t, d/l)
Module Leadership:
2018 - current L7 Safety Conservation, L7 Occupational Health & Hygiene, L7 Dissertation, major contributions to; L7 Professional Practice; L5 Environmental Protection
2012-2018 L7 Management of Occupational Safety & Health L5 Occupational Risk Management, L7 Standards & Auditing; L7 Risk Regulation
2006 Development of new L7 module ‘Professional Practice’
2006-2012 L6 Public Health Intervention; L5 Occupational Safety & Health; L7 Management of Occupational Safety; L7 Management of Occupational Health; L7 Self-Regulation; L7 State Regulation
2003-2006 L7 Setting the Context; L7 Risk; L7 Management of Occupational Safety; L7 Management of Occupational Health; L7 Self-Regulation; L7 Literature Review; L5 Occupational Risk Management (and previous iterations) L6 Environmental Health Interventions
Esteem in learning, teaching and assessment:
2020 – 2023 External Examiner NUI Galway MSc Occupational Health & Safety, BSc Environmental Health & Safety.
2020 External Panellist for Periodic Programme Review of MSc Occupational Health and Safety Management, MSc Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management, University of Portsmouth.
2017 Awarded IOSH President’s Distinguished Service Award for contribution to teaching and learning. Only a few are awarded in any year and this is, therefore, a notable achievement within the profession.
2016 External Panellist for validation of BSc (Hons) Occupational Safety, Health and Environment top up, a programme franchised to CONSIST College in Malaysia.
2015 – 2016 External Examiner Cardiff Metropolitan University, MSc Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
2014 – 2018 Appointed Member of the IOSH Professional Standards Committee.
2013 External Panellist for validation and review of BSc Hons Occupational Health, Safety and Environment; BSc Hons Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (Professional Pathway) and MSc Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management, Middlesex University.
2012 External Panellist for revalidation of MSc Occupational Safety and Health, Cardiff Metropolitan University.
External Panellist for the first validation of MSc Safety, Health, and Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University.
2009 Invited Member of the Qualifications Working Party, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.
2008 Academic Panellist for revalidation of MSc Occupational Safety and Health, UWIC.
2007 – 2011 External Examiner, BSc(Hons) Environmental & Public Health, Leeds Metropolitan University
2006 Academic Panellist for validation of MSc Safety, Health, and Environment, University of Sunderland
2001- 2002 Elected Chair, RoSPA Manchester Occupational Health, and Safety Group
1999- 2000 Elected Vice-Chair, RoSPA Manchester Occupational Health, and Safety Group
Qualifications
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Higher Education Practice and Research
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Occupational Safety & Health
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Acoustics
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Environmental Sciences
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Institute of Acoustics, Certificate of Competence in Environmental Noise Measurement
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Certificate of Competence in Workplace Noise Risk Assessment