Dr Humaira Khan

Biography

Dr. Humaira Khan gained her BSc in Psychology from London and worked as a Research Psychologist in Dorset working on drug rehabilitation projects with addicts in Boscombe and the elderly Snoezelen project in Branksome. Humaira then moved into education and teaching, starting at Further Education colleges across Dorset and progressing on to become Head of Psychology for 10 years at The Purbeck School in Wareham. Humaira was then appointed as Curriculum Lead in Health and Social Care at  Sarum Academy in Salisbury for 4 years and lectured Health Promotion at Solent University. During her career, Humaira was also an academic marker for AQA Psychology and an Adult Education Tutor for Bournemouth and Poole Adult Education, Skills and Learning.

In 2018, Humaira moved to full time HE lecturing at Bournemouth University as Lecturer in Health Sciences with the Department of Nursing, where she took on the role of Interim Deputy Head of Department and Global Engagement Lead. Humaira was an Academic Advisor, a member of Athena Swan and the Women’s Academic Network, was on the REF panel and the Science and Health Ethics panel. Humaira’s research interests around health promotion and addiction developed around the use of neonatal simulators in health education around Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and Neonate Abstinence Syndrome which has led to a suite of publications looking at the use of neonate simulators as creative pedagogy in midwifery, health and social care and social work education. Humaira has also been a peer reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Nursing and an assistant examiner for Coventry and Portsmouth University. In her professional practice capacity, Humaira has also been a  Bank Rehabilitation Assistant at Poole Integrated Care Team, Alderney Hospital.

Current Activity

Dr. Humaira Khan has a broad area of interest around Psychology, health promotion and behaviour change and the use of simulators, gamification and creative resources in health education in different populations. She has an interest in the impact of addiction on health particularly for pregnant woman and has research collaborations with Drug and Alcohol Services across Dorset. Humaira has run health education workshops for carers of addicts on teratogenesis impacts to the baby and developed a short documentary and animation of gestational drug and alcohol use.

Humaira is currently working with Wessex Health Partners, Dorset NHS Trust, Solent NHS Trust and academics across Bournemouth University, AUB, Southampton and Portsmouth Universities on a smoking cessation project for pregnant women. Humaira has worked with Poole Maternity Unit to set up the SSIPSIG forum (Stop Smoking in Pregnancy Steering Information Group) and is collaborating on smoking cessation research. Humaira has also been awarded external funding from Wessex Health Partners and is co-developing gamified, creative life course health trajectory resources to empower healthy choice decision making changes for school pupils.

Dr Khan is the School of Chiropractic Research Ethics Lead and MSc Chiropractic course lead. Humaira also teaches chiropractic students across year 1 and3 and the MSc Chiropractic Pre-Registrations course. Humaira is also Doctoral supervisor and Director of Studies for 3 PhD students.