Mr Sean Welsh
School of Health & Society
Mary Seacole Building
University of Salford
Manchester
M6 6PU
Current positions
Head of Mental Health Nursing
Biography
Seán joined the University of Salford in October 2004 as a lecturer in mental health nursing and has substantively held the role of Head of Mental Health Nursing and Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing since October 2020, having acted up in that role for 6 months prior. Seán has over 29 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse: having qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1995 and initially working in orthopaedics, before graduating as a Registered Nurse Mental Heath in 1997. The majority of Seán’s clinical career was in adolescent forensic mental health nursing and in education in practice.
As an academic, Seán has taught across all academic levels and held a number of key leadership roles including module leadership and highly successful programme leadership of the largest undergraduate pre-registration mental health nursing programme in the region.
As Head of Mental Health Nursing at Salford, Seán has focussed on leadership and management, with a focus on student experience and staff wellbeing and development, leading the undergraduate programme to a 17-place raise in the Times Higher League table in 2023.
Areas of Research
Leadership, management, young people's mental health, prison health care, psychosocial interventions, therapeutic relationships, transactional analysis, reflective practice and the impact of colonialism.
Mental health nursing, forensic and prison health care, psychosocial interventions, therapeutic relationships, reflective practice.
Qualifications
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MSc Professional Practice with Merit
2010 - 2014 -
Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Research & Practice
2004 - 2007 -
BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies
2001 - 2004 -
Diploma in Professional Studies: Mental Health Nursing
1995 - 1997