Dr Emma Senior

Assistant Professor

School: Healthcare and Nursing Sciences

Emma -Senior ,-Northumbria -University She began her nurse career in Theatres specialising in Women and Children’s health before qualifying as a Health Visitor. She then went on to work as a Sexual Health Advisor across North Yorkshire where she was able to work collaboratively with a range of services and organisations which included the Military, Primary Care, Secondary Education & Youth Services .

Emma’s first role within the university was as a senior lecturer/practitioner taking the lead in implementing a workforce development initiative called Northumbria Integrated Sexual Health Education (NISHE) for post qualified nurses across County Durham & Darlington. This involved the development & delivery of e-learning educational materials along with supporting students in the practice setting. In 2012, Emma joined the pre-registration nurse team where she has been able to introduce, develop and co-ordinate e-learning packages on the programme.

Along with teaching pre-registration healthcare, Emma has maintained her post-registration nurse teaching within sexual health, safeguarding and public health. She is also a member of the workforce development team based at the Northern Design Centre working in collaboration with external partners to create education packages to develop the workforce.

In 2015, Emma became involved and is now programme lead for Northumbria University’s new innovative programme for Professional Non-Surgical Aesthetic Practice. She has worked collaboratively with experts in aesthetic practice to develop educational materials to enable the practitioners to meet the Health Education England(HEE,2015) recommended Standards PART ONE: Qualification requirements for delivery of cosmetic procedures: Non-surgical cosmetic interventions and hair restoration surgery & PART TWO: Report on implementation of qualification requirements for cosmetic procedures: Non-surgical cosmetic interventions and hair restoration surgery.

Campus Address

Room H007, Coach Lane
Room 101, Northern Design Centre

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Technology Enhanced Learning, Public Health, Sexual Health, Military families

Key Publications

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Evaluating the Impact of a Pilot Social Prescribing Service for the Armed Forces Community, Schoultz, M., Boul, L., Senior, E., Swift, A., Kiernan, M. 24 Feb 2026, In: Primary Health Care Research and Development
Applying a Public Health Lens to Co-production with the Military Connected Community, Watson, P., Senior, E., Hyde, R., Telford, M. 10 Nov 2025, Public Involvement and Community Engagement in Applied Health and Social Care Research , Leeds, Emerald Publishing
Broadening Understandings of “Identity” Among Military Partners: A Multidisciplinary Reflection from the United Kingdom; A Research Note, Gribble, R., Crowe-Urbaniak, D., Cree, A., Senior, E., Huddlestone, E. 26 Nov 2025, In: Armed Forces and Society
Living with a loved one’s mental health issue: Recognizing the Lived Experiences of Military Spouses, Senior, E., Clarke, A., Wilson-Menzfeld, G. 7 Nov 2025, In: PLoS One
One is Too Many: Implementing a suicide reduction workforce initiative, Senior, E., Watson, P. 14 Feb 2025, Veterans’ Mental Health Conference 2025
Healthcare students as partners: A pedagogic consultancy involving the co-production of teaching and learning strategies and resources incorporating the ‘All Our Health’ initiative, Senior, E., Hutchison, J. 2 Jul 2024, Teaching and Learning Conference 2024:
Future-Focused Education: Innovation, Inclusion, and Impact
One is too Many: A Conceptual Framework for Safety Planning within Service Delivery for Veterans and their Families, Kiernan, M., McGill, G., Watson, P., Farrell, D., Oxburgh, G., Arnfield, J., Rebair, A., Knibbs, L., Allen, S., Gettings, R., Senior, E. 20 Mar 2024
Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse: Approaches to Care for Health Professionals, Dosdale, C., Senior, E., Shotton, L., Skarparis, K. 13 May 2024
Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse, Dosdale, C., Senior, E., Shotton, L., Skarparis, K. 13 May 2024, Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse, London, Routledge
Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence and Abuse: Approaches to Care for Health Professionals, Dosdale, C., Senior, E., Shotton, L., Skarparis, K. 13 May 2024

Current and Recent Projects

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'Military Children' Promote, Protect, Prevent, Watson, P. (Principal Investigator), Senior, E. (Co Investigator), Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, 01/09/24 - 31/08/25, £124,899.00
Developing the OiTM dissemination workshop, Senior, E. (Principal Investigator), The Baton, 01/04/24 - 31/03/25, £18,000.00
Developing a Common Assessment Tool, Watson, P. (Principal Investigator), Senior, E. (Co Investigator), The Royal Marines Charity, 01/01/24 - 31/12/24, £29,438.00
Veteran suicide: Understand-Identify-Prevent, Kiernan, M. (Principal Investigator), Senior, E. (Co Investigator), Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, 01/07/21 - 30/06/23, £205,405.00

Professional Activity

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Visiting an external academic institution: Harrogate Army Foundation College 2025
Consultancy: E-Learning for Health review 2025
Visiting an external academic institution: Harrogate Army Foundation College 2025
Publication Peer-review: PLoS One (Journal) 2025
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: RHC/NU Older veterans conference 2025
Consultancy: External Examiner 2025
Publication Peer-review: PLoS One (Journal) 2025
Other: NIHR reviewer 2025
Visiting an external academic institution: Royal Marines Association 2025
Invited talk: Implementing the one is too many toolkit 2025

PGR Supervision

Roberta Leem-Bruggen Start Date: 01/10/2024

PGR Supervision

Roberta Leem-Bruggen A critical synthesis of the evidence-based Supportive Strategies and capture of the phenomenological experiences of victim/survivors of IPVA in UK Military Families. Start Date: 06/01/2025

Further Information

I began my nursing career in theatres specialising in women and children health before qualifying as a Health Visitor. I then went on to work as a Sexual Health Advisor across North Yorkshire where I was able to work collaboratively with a range of services and organisations which included the Military, Primary Care, Secondary Education and Youth services.

My first role within the university was as a senior Lecturer/Practitioner, taking the lead in implementing a workforce development initiative called Northern Integrated Sexual Health Education (NISHE) for post qualified nurses across County Durham & Darlington. This involved developing and delivery of elearning educational materials along with supporting students in the practice setting. The programme was then franchised out to the University of West England where I was able to also take on the role of project manager to aid delivery of the programme.

In 2012, I joined the pre-registration nursing team where I have been able to introduce, develop and co-ordinate e-learning packages on the programme. Along with teaching pre-registration nursing, I have maintained my post registration nurse teaching with sexual health, safeguarding and public health in the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse programme, where I am persoanl tutor for those following the Sexual Health Advisor route.

I was a memeber of the workforce development team, working in collaboration with external partners such as Public Health England, Local Commissioning groups undertaking research and scoping projects with the view of creating educational packages to develop the workforce.

As well as teaching across both these programmes, in 2015, I became involved in and now Programme Lead for Northumbria University's innovative programme Professional Non-Surgical Aesthetic Practice. I have worked collaboratively with experts in aesthetic practice to develop eduactional materials to enable practitioners to meet the requirements for registration on to the Joint Council of Cosmetic Practitioners register.

I have successfully completed my PhD study exploring the experiences of military spouses whose UK serving partners during a mental health issue.