Miss Elizabeth Burns
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Biography
I joined the University of Salford as a Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing in December 2015 and was appointed to the role of Student Voice & Communities Lead in our Directorate of Nursing & Midwifery in December 2022.
After registering as a mental health nurse in 1998 and graduating with a specialist practitioner qualification in community mental health nursing in 1999, I worked in alcohol services across a range of primary care and criminal justice settings. Prior to joining the University of Salford in 2015, I gained ten years’ experience as a public health practitioner, focusing on population approaches to reducing alcohol harm and individual behaviour change interventions.
Between 2017 and 2022, I was a Co-Investigator on the NIHR-funded alcohol health champions research project "Communities in Charge of Alcohol - CICA". The final NIHR report for this mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment was published in September 2024.
I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.