Karen Hynes

Karen Hynes serves as an Associate Lecturer and Academic Sessional at Canterbury Christ Church University's School of Allied and Public Health Professions, with dual affiliation to the Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS). She joined the institution in 2013 as a part-time lecturer for the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Programme following her return-to-practice role as a health visitor in Kent. Her professional background includes frontline positions as a central London health visitor, Merton community development health visitor under the Single Regeneration Budget, and West Kent lead nurse for safeguarding children and young people prior to her 2004 career break.

Her educational qualifications comprise:

• Master's in Child Studies for Safeguarding Practitioners (King's College London)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Promoting Mental Health in Children and Young People

Research interests center on infant and perinatal mental health, advancing children's rights through effective safeguarding practice, and early intervention strategies to promote health and wellbeing across children, young people, and family systems. She actively seeks to develop experiential learning and interprofessional education models within higher education to strengthen these domains.

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