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Dr Carolyn Mason

Grad Dip Phys, Ba (Hons) Health Care Management, EdD, PGCHE, FHEA

Head of Department Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work

Department of Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work

Role
Teaching and supervision
Professional information
Further details

Role

The Head of Department role in Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work  (SHSSW) by defintion provides leadership and management of the Department through implementation of the Faculty and the University’s strategies. 

The Department of Sport, Health Sciences and Social work has had numnerous iterations. Previously the department of Sport and Health Sciences, as a consequence of a faculty restructure in 2017, The Social Work programmes became an integral part of the department and the department became The Department of Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work.

Teaching and supervision

Modules taught

The Department Head for Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work has a portfolio which includes: 

Programmes of study:

  • MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition (BM51)
  • BSc Sport, Coaching and Physical Education (SJ)
  • BSc Sport, Coaching and Physical Education (SU)
  • BSc Sport and Exercise Science (XS)
  • MSc Applied Human Nutrition (BM60)
  • BSc Nutrition (NN)
  • MSc in Rehabilitation (HC83)

Rehabiliatation pathways:

  • Exercise Rehabilitation (EXR)
  • Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation (MUS)
  • Neurological Rehabilitation (NEU)
  • Posture Management Rehabilitation (POM)
  • MSc in Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) (HL50)
  • BSc Physiotherapy (PZ)
  • MSc in Occupational Therapy (Pre-registration) (HL51)
  • BSc Occupational Therapy (OT)
  • MSc in Children, Young People and Family Wellbeing (HC53)
  • MA in Social Work (HC55)
  • MSc Child Welfare and Wellbeing (HL76)
  • PGCert in Child Protection Practice (HL77)
  • BA Social Work (SK)

Associated College Partnerships programmes of study:

  • FDSc Coaching Science (Solihull)
  • BSc Applied Sports Science (Solihull)
  • BSc Applied Sports Science (Coaching)(Solihull)
  • FdSc Sports Coaching, Fitness and Rehabilitation (Activate Learning)
  • BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching, Fitness and Rehabilitation (Activate Learning)
  • FdSc Sports Science with Sports Coaching Education (Bridgwater)

Research:

  • MORes (Formally the Centre for Rehab)

Commercial activity:

  • The Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health (Formally the Functional Food Centre)
  • Allied Health and Specialist Clinics

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Related Public Output

  • Board member Oxfordshire Sports Partnership 2014-
  • Council of Deans for Health 2015-

Research/Consultancy/Professional Practice

  • Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Education Representative
  • Membership: Education Forum: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
  • Chartered Society of Physiotherapy member/Chair Quality and Enhancement Group (QAE)
  • Member of Comiitee (CSP rep) CASE: Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education
  • Peer reviewer: Physiotherapy Journal (CSP)
  • External Examiner BSc Physiotherapy Robert Gordon University, 2009-2013
  • External Examiner BSc Physiotherapy Bradford University, 2013-2017
  • Validation Panel (External) Pre-Registration BHSc Physiotherapy York St John University, 2013
  • Validation Panel (External) Pre-Registration MSc Physiotherapy York St John University, 2012
  • Validation Panel (External) Pre-Registration MSc Physiotherapy Brunel University, 2012
  • Validation Panel (External) BSc, MSC Pre-registration and Doctor of Physiotherapy, Robert Gordon University, 2015

Further details

Other experience

  • May 2015 to date, Head of Department, Sport and Health Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
  • Dec 2013-May 2015, Acting Head of Department, Sport and Health Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
  • August 2004- Sept 2016 Programme Lead Physiotherapy, Oxford Brookes University
  • July 2001-August 2004, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University
  • July 1999-Sept 2001, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Hertfordshire
  • July 1998-July 1999, Lecturer Practitioner in Physiotherapy, Harefield and Royal Brompton NHS Trust/University of Hertfordshire
  • 1995-1999, Superintendent III Physiotherapist Cardio-thoracics, Harefield and Royal Brompton NHS Trust
  • 1992-1995, Senior I Physiotherapist Cardio-thoracics, Harefield and Royal Brompton NHS Trust
  • 1990-1992, Senior II Physiotherapist Respiratory, University Hospital, Nottingham
  • 1988-1990, Junior Rotational Physiotherapist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle