Lisa Porter
School of Health & Society
Biography
Lisa is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing with over 25 years of experience across health, social care, local government, and higher education. Her research interests include quality improvement, healthcare leadership, leadership development, implementation of learning into practice, communities of practice, and service improvement.
She is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care, exploring how postgraduate healthcare leaders apply Quality Improvement learning within professional practice and the development of an evidence-informed framework to support implementation.
Areas of Research
Lisa's research focuses on understanding how postgraduate healthcare leaders apply Quality Improvement (QI) learning within professional practice settings. Through her Professional Doctorate, she is exploring the factors that enable or hinder the translation of QI knowledge into practice and co-creating an evidence-informed framework to support implementation, leadership development, and service improvement across health and care settings.
Lisa is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing with extensive experience teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in healthcare, leadership, and quality improvement. Her expertise includes curriculum design, module leadership, assessment and feedback, quality enhancement, student support, research supervision, and the implementation of inclusive and innovative teaching approaches to enhance student learning and engagement.
Qualifications
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Health and Social Care
2025 - 2028 -
Professional Doctorate
2025 - 2028 -
Health and Social Care
2006 - 2007