Dr. Valerie Houghton

Current positions

Lecturer in Learning Disabilities Nursing and Social Work

Biography

Valerie came to academia from a long career in practice. Valerie has over thirty years experience working with people with learning disabilities, and has experience of working with children and adults, as a manager in community learning disability nurse manager, challenging behaviour specialist, and registered homes manager. Valerie started her academic career with the University of Manchester before joining the University of Salford teaching on the Integrated practice in learning disabilities nursing and social work degree.

Recently Valerie has completed her PhD at Lancaster University focusing on defining disablist hate crime. She is a fellow of the HEA, and a member of the school research ethics panel.