DrDavid Matheson

Dr David Matheson is Reader in Education for Health at the University of Wolverhampton, Postgraduate research tutor for health, and Course Leader for the Professional Doctorate in Health and Wellbeing. 

David is a highly experienced researcher and educator in healthcare and medical education with proven experience in course development, leadership as well as academic supervision and external examining at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. David was Deputy Lead and then Acting Lead for the Caring for Lifelong Health Research Centre. To date, he has over 60 peer-reviewed academic articles in education, healthcare and medical education and 21 successful doctoral completions. He is currently supervising 11 doctoral students. He is the Postgraduate Research Tutor for all doctoral students researching health-related topics in the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, managing the admissions process for PhD applicants across health. He also delivers front-line pastoral care & support to doctoral students and supports academic colleagues who supervise doctoral students.

David leads the Professional Doctorate in Health and Wellbeing and several modules in the Leading Education and Assessing Performance programme of senior medical and surgical faculty development for the NHS in the West Midlands. David also contributes to undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD modules for both Advanced Nurse Practitioners and other Allied Healthcare Professionals. 

David has edited seminal academic books and is a member of the editorial board for the Springer Handbook for Promoting Social Justice in Education and member of the editorial board of BMC Medical Education. David is the chair of patient panels for Prostate Cancer Research and a member of  the Trial Management Group of STAMPEDE, one of largest trials of novel prostate cancer therapies in the world. He is a patient researcher on the STOPCaP project, contributing to meta-analyses of prostate cancer studies.

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