Mr Sean Welsh
| Biography | Seán joined the University of Salford in October 2004 as a lecturer in mental health nursing and has substantively held the role of Head of Mental Health Nursing and Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing since October 2020, having acted up in that role for 6 months prior. Seán has over 29 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse: having qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1995 and initially working in orthopaedics, before graduating as a Registered Nurse Mental Heath in 1997. The majority of Seán’s clinical career was in adolescent forensic mental health nursing and in education in practice. As an academic, Seán has taught across all academic levels and held a number of key leadership roles including module leadership and highly successful programme leadership of the largest undergraduate pre-registration mental health nursing programme in the region. As Head of Mental Health Nursing at Salford, Seán has focussed on leadership and management, with a focus on student experience and staff wellbeing and development, leading the undergraduate programme to a 17-place raise in the Times Higher League table in 2023. |
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| Research Interests | Leadership, management, young people's mental health, prison health care, psychosocial interventions, therapeutic relationships, transactional analysis, reflective practice and the impact of colonialism. |
| Teaching and Learning | Mental health nursing, forensic and prison health care, psychosocial interventions, therapeutic relationships, reflective practice. |