Dr Stephen Holmes

Dr Stephen Holmes is a Senior Academic Fellow and is the Health and Life Sciences London Lead. Dr Holmes coordinates across several modules and the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) levels, ranging from Level 8, 9, and 10. Dr Holmes has been teaching health and social care, health sciences, teacher training and academic study skills since 2002, and has worked across a variety of educational levels, covering secondary, further, and higher education.

Dr Holmes’s research focuses on identity, and my thesis, ‘Development of the teaching-self in research-intensive universities,’ concentrated on the self-understanding of contemporary innovative academics, centrally positioning one’s sense of self and the self-narratives of multiple subjectivities and experiences. Dr Holmes’s recent research interests align with is coordination of the Living Well with Dementia module and the use of visualisations as a methodology. His interest in this area stems from both a professional and a personal domain.

Dr Holmes has worked in the NHS and private sector in the theatres as a Perioperative assistant across surgical disciplines. Most recently, he returned to support the Covid-19 triage team at St Barts during the pandemic and was involved in the vaccination programme at the Excel centre.