Fiona Meth

Dr. Fiona Meth is a Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship) at the University of Leeds' School of Healthcare, part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She serves as Director of Practice, overseeing Skills and Simulation provision. Her expertise spans clinical skills, health inequalities, qualitative research methods, and addressing stigma in healthcare. She holds a PhD in Public Health focused on street sex worker health inequalities and maintains active clinical practice in critical care and music festival medicine.

Education:

• Bachelor of Social Science
• MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (Development Studies)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing
• PG Cert in Academic Practice
• PhD in Public Health

Research Interests: Health inequalities among under-served populations, particularly street sex workers; creative qualitative methodologies; racism in clinical education; and improving practice placement systems. Current projects include an ICB-funded study on healthcare access barriers for sex workers in Leeds, Kirklees, and Bradford, and collaborative research on BAME students' experiences of racism in clinical settings.

Grants & Collaborations:

• ICB-funded study on reducing healthcare barriers for street sex workers
• Leeds Beckett University collaboration on BAME student racism research
• Pioneered regional ePAD/MYEPAD systems for practice assessments

Teaching Roles: Leads postgraduate modules and teaches undergraduate courses in clinical skills, critical care, and research methods. Integrates frontline clinical experience from critical care nursing, festival medicine, and voluntary work into teaching.