Juliette is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University. Juliette’s impact has encompassed a number of key themes associated with raising student aspirations and improving outcomes. No matter what the theme, the unifying thread of enablement through envisaging ‘possible selves’ permeates everything Juliette does.
Juliette has made considerable impact at Faculty, University, national and international levels through her leadership, focusing on four distinct areas: creative curriculum, high performance, mental health and bereavement teaching (baby loss). In all four areas, she has impacted students positively and transformed their education, affecting their own impact personally and within their communities.
An experienced health professional in Speech and Language Therapy (SLT), Juliette used her professional expertise and natural persistence working with clinical assessment and the construction of regional and national networks concerned with practice education in SLT.
In 2012 Juliette experienced a personal tragedy when her son died during childbirth. Since then she has courageously sought ways to create meaning and value from what happened to her in order to make a positive impact in higher education by sharing her experiences to help the midwives of tomorrow to avoid the mistakes that had accompanied her own pregnancy. Through the medium of film and her ongoing commitment to her charitable organisation, Juliette has taken multiple opportunities to influence the attitudes and professional behaviours of midwives and student midwives in Birmingham City University and across the country and has been an inspiration to everyone who has encountered her in this work.
As an academic, Juliette is dedicated to supporting excellent student mental health and wellbeing. Successfully championing this cause has helped to begin the process of de-stigmatising mental health issues, stress reduction and improvements in student self-efficacy through the development of resilience, self-compassion and mindfulness. Passionate, people focused, positive and progressive, Juliette empowers others in an arena where everything can be possible.