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Last updated 21st August 2025

Dr Sally Arrey is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy. She is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing and MSc Course Experience Leader (All Four Fields of Nursing) in the Department of Nursing at the School of Human and Health Sciences.

Previously, she was a Lecturer in Nurse Education at Edgehill University in the Faculty of Health and Social Care from July 2015 until April 2018, when she moved to University of Huddersfield until present. Also, in 2009 – 2010, she was an Affiliate Lecturer in undergraduate nursing programmes at the University of Huddersfield.

Sally obtained her PhD from the University of Huddersfield in July 2015. Preceding this, Sally studied at the University of Bradford for the undergraduate and postgraduate nursing courses and subsequently, obtained an MSC in Nursing, which incorporated a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Professional Education (Lecturer) in 2009. The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Professional Education (Lecturer) was validated and registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

With her background as a registered senior staff nurse (learning disability) working with St Anne’s Community Services UK, she brings vast knowledge from her experience of working with individuals with complex health needs including dementia, palliative and end-of-life care, and working in partnership with a range of health and social care providers. She also worked in the role of Practice Education Facilitator and NMC signed-off mentor to promote quality standards in student nurses’ practice learning and assessment.

She has an interest in the application of Qualitative methods and a particular interest in phenomenology, the use of Reflective learning in personal and professional development and in facilitating post registration training for Health and Social Care professionals to enhance and promote quality care.

Sally has in recent years, an increasing research interest in the access to public health services by autistic people and people with learning disabilities, marginalised communities living with long term conditions including dementia and mental health, in concept-based teaching and learning, and in clinical reasoning simulated learning.

Sally retains these research interests through collaboration with practice and Higher Educational Institutes colleagues.

For example, her previous projects included:

• She was part of a Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EoLC) Project facilitated through Focus group with St Anne’s Community Services between 2013-2015. The project saw the development of Palliative and EoLC Training package for people with learning disabilities called: ‘Doing it my Way’. The training package was endorsed by both the North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group and Greater Huddersfield. Sally was actively involved in the writing as well as piloting of the training package, which is targeted at health and social care professionals involved in the care of people with learning disabilities and potential mainstream patients with life-limiting conditions. The training package was nominated for innovation in Practice and Service Development and on the 16^th November 2015, during the Annual Conference of Palliative Care for People with Learning Disabilities in London. Sally and members of the Focus group received the ‘Linda McEndhill Award’ for making a positive difference in the EoLC of people with learning disabilities.
• Whilst working at Edgehill University, she played a major role as part of the module team engaged in the development, writing, and facilitation of the Objective Structured Video Exams within the Module – Skills for Nursing Practice.

Ongoing Project include:

Sally and colleagues obtained funding from the Integrated Care Board for the University to pilot the Tier 2 Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism with selected cohorts of our Allied Health Professional courses and Nursing courses with the potential to embed Tier 1 in other courses other than health professions.

• Phase 1 of the above-mentioned pilot is ongoing.

Ongoing PhD Students Projects Supervision Titles:

Dementia care: Frontline health professionals’ knowledge and experience regarding differential diagnosis and referral of dementia in Nepal: A mixed method study (Bishal Gole)

Public Health: Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention and Epidemic Control: A Phenomenological Study on Perceptions, Receptiveness, and Utilisation Disablers among Nigerian Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) (Jolayemi Afolabi)

Mental Health: The role of Spirituality and Religion as protective factors for young adults with a diagnosed mental illness (Matthew Johnson)

Bereavement & Death: Exploring the experiences of Zimbabwean migrants, with the death of a family member in the UK: The cultural considerations related to the decision not to repatriate (Nokuthula Barry)

Sally has also supervised as main and co-supervisor other PhD students to completion and continues to accept PhD students.