About
Benjamin is the Module Lead for Research Methods Level 5 (Year 2), all-school pre-registration undergraduates, cross-programme teaching. This shared module houses 5 core professions: Midwifery, Cardiac Physiology, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Nursing and is the first major exposure for undergraduates to research appraisal, methodology, and proposal development. Benjamin is also the Cardiac Physiology Research Methods module lead.
In the postgraduate space, Benjamin leads Health by Design module within the Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care (MSc) alongside teaching into Leading and Managing Organisation and Systems.
Benjamin operates as the Senior Academic Tutor for Allied Health Profession to support students across the years and from undergraduate to postgraduate taught.
His clinical background includes 9 years of NHS experience with 4 years focused on the Acute and At-risk foot where he practiced within the local region providing specialist care in preventing, managing, treating, and resolving foot ulcers. Principally focusing on prevention of loss of limb, limb salvage, and maintaining quality of life for high-risk patient population.
His research interests include risk prediction, stratification, and prognostication employing genomics insights to augment disease prevention. Drawing from his clinical career, Benjamin has a keen interesting in peripheral neuropathies and diabetic foot syndrome but welcomes opportunities to collaborate to apply his knowledge, insight, testing and analysis to all condition across the lower limb.
His master’s dissertation explored the analysis and prediction utilised in bioinformatical tools applied in splicing genetics employing (then 2020) the innovative synthesis methodology Synthesis Without Meta-Analysis (SWiM) for highly heterogeneous study designs. This provided insight to which computational tools provided the highest Area-Unver-the-Curve (AUC) when predicting pathological impact from base changes in the splicing region. Benjamin sought to account for the differences in methods, populations, verification and validation models to arrive at a robust assessment of the tools available in this domain.
Benjamin remains a staunch advocate for design thinking methodology to tackle complexity and seeks to balance the hard rigour of genomic and statistical genetics with more flexible softer approaches found co/human centred design. The ethos of liberty and empowering students, colleagues, collaborators and the public toward solutions-focused mindset foster a culture of growth, possibility, and achievement.