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Dr Vanessa Abrahamson

Research Fellow

Dr Vanessa Abrahamson
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Vanessa joined the ARC in October 2020, working with Nadia Brookes and Lisa Richardson on the co-production theme, centred on building a collective understanding around the benefits of co-production and embedding it into research and service planning/development across Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Based in the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) at the University of Kent, Vanessa is an experienced qualitative and realist researcher with interests including end-of-life care, neuro-rehabilitation and managing long-term conditions. In collaboration with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, she leads the Research Champions programme, a one-year introduction to research for health and social care practitioners in Kent.

Prior to this, Vanessa completed an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded doctoral thesis and was a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent. She has an MSc Public Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Postgraduate Certificate in Social Research Methods and Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. She is a Fellow of the HEA and registered with the HCPC.

Vanessa trained as an occupational therapist and worked in one of the first Intermediate Care Teams when funding was sufficient to provide intensive home-based rehabilitation. In New Zealand, Vanessa worked in stroke and brain injury rehabilitation and developed an inter-disciplinary clinic for people with mild traumatic brain injury.

 

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