Miss Elizabeth Burns
| Biography | Liz joined the University of Salford as a Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing in December 2015 and was appointed to the role of Student Voice & Communities Lead in our Directorate of Nursing & Midwifery in December 2022. After registering as a mental health nurse in 1998 and graduating with a specialist practitioner qualification in community mental health nursing in 1999, Liz worked in alcohol services across a range of primary care and criminal justice settings. Prior to joining the University of Salford in 2015, she gained ten years’ experience as a public health practitioner, focusing on population approaches to reducing alcohol harm and individual behaviour change interventions. Between 2017 and 2022, Liz was a Co-Investigator on the NIHR-funded alcohol health champions research project "Communities in Charge of Alcohol - CICA". The final NIHR report for this mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment was published in September 2024. More recently she completed a local authority commissioned evaluation of Safer Streets activity, funded by the Home Office. The research focused on whether a bottom-up approach, involving the community to co-design solutions and co-evaluate outcomes, is effective in creating safer communities. A post-implementation process-evaluation was carried out to inform future Home Office funded Safer Streets projects. |
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| Research Interests | Public health, asset based community development, brief interventions, motivational interviewing, behaviour change, alcohol harm reduction, alcohol licensing |
| Teaching and Learning | Liz is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. |