Position: Senior Lecturer, Public Health
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8223 7351
Fax: +44 (0)20 8223 4282
Email: nena@uel.ac.uk
Contact Address:
School of Health Sport and Bioscience
Stratford Campus
University of East London
Water Lane
London
E15 4LZ
Nena completed her PhD (Sociology of Health and Illness) in 2009 and CLTHE in 2007 both at London South Bank University. She also holds an MA in Social Policy and Administration from the University of Nottingham (2004) and a BA in Pre-Professional Studies (Pre-clinical medicine) and Spanish Literature from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN, USA) (2001).
Nena is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and is involved in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prior to working at UEL, Nena taught at London South Bank University and Deakin University (Melbourne, Aus). She has also supervised research students in the areas of HIV and pregnancy, HIV and domestic violence, HIV and cultural risks and the practice of FGM migrant populations.
In addition to lecturing she is an early career researcher and has worked on a variety of research studies in the areas of health and social development. Her PhD research examined black women's experiences of living with HIV and AIDS and the representation of black women in HIV and AIDS health promotion.
HIV and ageing in Newham, Tower Hamlets HIV Needs Assessment
Tobi, P, Estacio, E, Renton, A, Yu G and Foster, N (under review) ‘Who stays, who drops out? Biosocial predictors of adherence in participants attending a longer term exercise referral scheme in the UK’ BMC Public Health.
Ciclitira, K and Foster, N (in press) ‘Ethnicity in Psychoanalytic Training: One training organisation’s experience’ British Journal of Psychotherapy.
Aceijas, C and Foster, N (2011) Public Health Capacity Building in Times of Austerity: A case study from the University of East London. Public Health Reviews, 33 (1).
Foster, N, Cook, K, Barter-Godfrey, S and Furneaux, S (2011) ‘Fractured Multiculturalism: Conflicting representations of Arabs and Muslims in the Australian Print Media.’ Media, Culture and Society, 33:619-29.
Tindall, C, Cook, K, and Foster, N (2010) ‘Theorising stigma and the experiences of injecting drug users in Australia,’ Australian Journal of Primary Health, 16:119-125.
Clement, S and Foster, N (2008) ‘Newspaper reporting on schizophrenia: A content analysis of five national newspapers at two time points,’ Schizophrenia Research. 98: 178-183.
Foster, N (2007) ‘Reinscribing Black women’s positions within HIV and AIDS discourse’ Feminism and Psychology, 17(3):323-329.
Foster, N (2011) ‘Making sense of the evidential hierarchy in public health research’ in Aceijas, C (ed) Assessing the effectiveness of evidence. St Albans: Learning Matters Press.
Foster, N (2011) ‘Critical appraisal in public health research’ in Aceijas, C (ed) Assessing the effectiveness of evidence. St Albans: Learning Matters Press.
Taket, A, Foster, N and Cook, K (2009) ‘Understanding processes of social exclusion: silence, silencing and shame’ in Taket, A et al (eds) Theorising Social Exclusion. London: Routledge.
Foster, N and Freeman, F (2011) ‘First findings: An exploratory study of HIV+ adults 50 and older in and around Newham’ Newham University Hospital 10th Annual Research Conference, London, 15th November, 2011.
Foster, N, Harden, A, Tobi, P, Fakoya, A, Freeman, E (2011) ‘Exploring the needs of experiences of people ageing with HIV in the London borough of Newham’ British Society of Gerontology Conference, Plymouth, UK, 5-7th July, 2011. (Poster)
Foster, N Harden, A, Tobi, P, Fakoya, A, Freeman, E (2011) ‘Exploring the needs of experiences of people ageing with HIV in the London borough of Newham: Methodology and Preliminary Findings’, 20th World Sexual Health Congress, Glasgow, UK, June 12-16th, 2011. (Poster)
Aceijas, C and Foster, N (2010) ‘Aligning teaching programmes with the UK Public Health Skills and Career Framework: A revalidation experience.’ European Association of Public Health Conference, Amsterdam, November 2010. (Poster)
Husk, J, Ballinger, C, Foster, N, Holmes, P, Potter, J and Martin, F (2009) ‘Older People’s Experiences of Falls and Bone Health Services (in England)’ 1st-3rd April 2009, British Geriatrics Society Spring Scientific Meeting, Bournemouth, UK.
Foster, N, Cook, K, Furneaux, S, and Barter-Godfrey, S (2008) ‘Representing ethnic, cultural and religious ‘difference’: an analysis of Australian print media’ 4th December, 2008, Deakin University, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Early and Mid-career Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Husk, J, Foster, N, Ballinger, C , Holmes, P, Potter, J and Martin, F C (2008) ‘Older People’s Experiences of Falls and Bone Health Services (in England)’19th September, 2008, The 9th International Conference on Falls and Postural Stability, York, UK.
Foster N, Ballinger, C, Taket, A (2007) ‘’I will die if I go back. Black women’s accounts of living with HIV and AIDS in the UK’ 28-29 March, 15th Annual UK Public Health Association Conference, Edinburgh. (Poster)
Foster, N (2006) ‘Negotiating an HIV Identity: Black women’s accounts of living with HIV and AIDS’ 2nd December, Post-graduate Identities Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry.
Foster, N (2006) ‘Exploring Discourses on HIV and AIDS from Black Women’s Perspectives’ 7-10 November, 4th International Gender and Language Association Conference (IGALA), University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Associate of the Higher Education Academy, Project Consultant for Options UK, Trustee for Positive East, Module Leader and Lecturer on BSc and MSc in Public Health, Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Public Health, Admissions Tutor for BSc (Hons) Public Health and Research project supervisor for BSc and MSc Public Health students.
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Angela Harden will be sharing her expertise in mixed methods research synthesis for informing policy and practice with researchers in the US at a capacity building event in Washington DC on 29th and 30th July 2009.
The event is for researchers, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a Federal funding agency in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education.
Other topics covered at the event include ''collaboration with stakeholders and community in developing research knowledge and assistive technology products'', ''pragmatic trials'', ''social validity application in intervention research'' and ''test development with input from stakeholders.''
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