Susan Kerr is a Reader in the Improving Health and Wellbeing Research Grouping. She is also the “Director of the HealthQWest Graduate School” http://www.healthqwest.org/graduateschool.
After completing a BA in Nursing studies in 1981, Susan worked as a practice nurse in South Africa for 5 years. On her return from Africa she trained as a health visitor and following this worked for Greater Glasgow NHS Board for 4 years. In 1992 Susan was awarded a Chief Scientist Office Research Training Fellowship, undertaking research into the prevention of sleep problems in pre-school children at the University of Glasgow. She has since worked on a number of research projects including a study that explored parental adaptation following the birth of a child with a congenital anomaly (the topic of her PhD) and stress and coping in informal carers.
Susan’s current research focuses on the role of members of the primary healthcare team in the delivery of brief smoking cessation interventions. She has a particular interest in smoking cessation in later life and smoking/smoking cessation in people with mental health problems.
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