Lisa Porter

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Senior Lecturer

Department of Health and Wellbeing

Contact Details

email: l.porter@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542776

Lisa is an experienced educator, teaching across both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. With over 25 years of experience in the health and social care sector, she has worked across public, private, voluntary, and local government organisations developing new services and managing existing services. Her career includes expertise in project management, leadership, and team management. Most recently, Lisa as Local Government Principal Officer managed a team of quality assurance officers and managed a portfolio of care provider contracts, working with care providers and partner organisations (including public health, NHS, regulatory bodies, police and fire services) to improve service quality, deal with safeguarding issues and ensuring compliance with contractual, policy, regulatory and legislative requirements, while implementing provider sanctions when necessary. Lisa also has international project experience with the Earthwatch Institute participating in an expedition to West Africa to map the flora and fauna in the upper west region whilst interviewing the local community regarding their medicinal uses of plants.

Qualifications

  • MSc Health and Social Care
  • PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  • PG Cert Commissioning & Contracting BA (Hons) Business Management & Health Studies
  • BA (Hons) Business Management & Health Studies
  • CIEH Health and Safety Level 3
  • PRINCE2

Awards

  • University of Worcester Teaching Award, 2020
  • University of Worcester Team Teaching Award, 2020
  • Worcestershire County Councils 'Outstanding Contribution by an Individual' Award, 2015
  • Balfor Medical ‘Employee of the Year’ Award, 2001

Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

  • Quality Improvement
  • Regulation in health and social care
  • Law and policy
  • Sustainability
  • Coproduction
  • Teamworking and leadership
  • Communication and ethical practice
  • Problem Based Learning
  • Technologies in health and social care

Research Interests

  • Co-produced research: Trans and non-binary individuals’ experiences of accessing healthcare
  • Problem Based Learning approaches in education
  • Understanding the process of choosing a care home
  • Achieving and maintaining quality in care services
  • The impact of social care service re-design and de-commissioning
  • Measuring the impact of children's services on difficult to reach children

Lisa undertook primary research for her undergraduate and Masters Degrees, to explore quality in care homes and the process of choosing a care home. Lisa conducted research to measure service user views of a changing local authority service and to measure the impact of services on hard to reach children (young carers and Gypsy, Roma, Traveller groups). In addition to local research, Lisa participated in a research expedition to the upper west region of Ghana, to help map the flora and fauna in an area of ecological interest and to explore local uses of plants for medicinal purposes.

Professional Bodies

  • Member of the Chartered Management Institute
  • Member of the Chartered Quality Institute
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Publications and Outputs

  • Porter L. (2020) East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust under investigation following baby deaths. Quality World. March Edition.
  • Gasumova , Porter L. (2019) Issues and Prospects of Robotisation in the Social Field. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, Atlantis Press. volume 240
  • Gasumova G., Porter L. (2018) Robotisation in Social Care - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Sociology of Science and Technology (St. Petersburg). Issue 1 pp. 79-94. Available at: http://sst.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SST_2019_1.pdf
  • Gasumova G., Porter L. (2018) Robotisation in Social Care - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (2nd International Scientific Conference on New Industrialization (SICNI 2018), December 4-5, 2018.
  • Cooper C., Cooper M., Porter L. (2006) Listening to Childrens Voices - Impacts on Childrens Lives (II) - Impacts of three Worcestershire Childrens Fund Projects' Research Paper for Worcestershire County Council.
  • Unwin P., Porter L. (2006) Kidderminster Connect - measuring the impact on service users changing from a traditional Day Care Service to a community based 'Connect' hub. Research Paper for Worcestershire County Council.

Presentations at Conferences

  • Vickers J., Porter L., Goodliffe G., Thompson V. (2021) Co-producing an understanding of health: The experiences of trans and non-binary people using primary and secondary care health services within England. Presentation at conference: Universities and Colleges Union National Conference, September 2020.
  • Porter L. (2021) How Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Enabled Inclusivity. Presentation at conference: Active Learning Conference, July 2021.
  • Porter L. (2021) Taking Problem Based Learning (PBL) Online. Presentation at conference: Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2021.
  • Porter L. Weston R (2019) From work-based learner to work ready confidence: Student projects giving back to local communities. Presentation at conference: Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2019
  • Porter L. Sarbu R. (2018) Course Leaders Influence on Student Experience. Presentation at Conference: Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2018.
  • Porter L. (2017) Can Problem Based Learning Enhance Student Satisfaction? Presentation at Conference: Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2017
  • Porter L., Matthews E. (2016) The Potential of Technology to Empower Disabled People. Presentation at conference: Social Justice: building a fairer, more equal society, June 2016.
  • Worcestershire County Council training events (Speaker): Presentation of MSc research results to officers, social workers and senior managers - 2007 and 2009.
  • Unwin P., Porter L. (2006) Kidderminster Connect - measuring the impact on service users changing from a traditional Day Care Service to a community based 'Connect' hub. University of Worcester Conference for Worcestershire County Council.
  • Cooper C., Cooper M., Porter L. (2006) Listening to Childrens Voices - Impacts on Childrens Lives (II) - Impacts of three Worcestershire Childrens Fund Projects' Research Paper for Worcestershire County Council.

 

 

External Responsibilities

  • Benchmarking Assessor and External Examiner
  • Chartered Quality Institute Content Advisor
  • Academic Journal Peer Reviewer
  • Worcestershire Health Champion
  • Trustee – Friends of Wechiau Group (Registered Charity number 1113023)