Sally Bashford-Squires BA Hons, PGCE, MA

Teaching Fellow in Human Sciences

Sally Bashford-Squires is a Teaching Fellow within the school of Human Sciences. Prior to her role at The University of Greenwich she was a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Nottingham Trent University (NTU).

Sally is about to complete her PhD at (NTU), which examines the impact of social enterprise projects on women’s health in a rural area of Uganda. In 2021 she recieved a distincition in her MA Public Health at the same university.

Prior to working in academia, Sally has had a long career in education, teaching both secondary and primary pupils and working as an assistant headteacher. She is also the founder and Chair of a UK registered charity that supports marginalised communities in North-Eastern Uganda. Her interests include ethnography and creative research methods, as well as intersectionality, new materialsim, and Indigenous Knowledge. She enjoys teaching about the social determinants of health, policy and practice, politics of health, concepts of health, and ethics.

Posts held previously:

  • 2021 – 2024 Senior Lecturer MA Public Health Nottingham Trent University
  • 2020 – 2021 Research Assistant – Nottingham Trent University. Researching co-created solutions to mitigate gender-based violence in Nottinghamshire
  • 2009 – 2020 Assistant Head Teacher - James Peacock Infant School, Nottingham
  • 2005 – 2007 Senior Promotions Controller within the Academic Range– Oxford University Press
  • 1997 – 2001 English, Drama, and Sociology teacher – The Heathland School, Hounslow.

Public health

Responsibilities within the university
  • Teaching on the BSc Public Health modules
  • Supervising MA dissertation students

Awards

Winner of Images of Research 2023 – Nottingham Trent University.

Research / Scholarly interests
  • Sally's research interests lie within gender and health, particularly in East Africa. She is interested in how social enterprise projects, combined with Indigenous Knowledge, can improve community health and impact issues caused by climate change within marginalised Ugandan communities. She has also researched and written about how women’s economic projects can work towards mitigating gender-based violence in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Sally is interested in social theories, particularly intersectionality and new materialism. She is passionate about Indigenous Knowledge and how such knowledge systems can work towards impacting climate change
  • Sally has worked with projects in East Africa since 2016 via her NGO and during her PhD research; she has a keen interest towards developing ethical knowledge and understanding when working within marginalised communities.

Key funded projects

  • Connecting Globally grant from Nottingham Trent University to research how the digital determinants of health impact community health workers and social entrepreneurs, April 2024
  • Nottingham Trent University grant to produce a documentary to disseminate the results of my PhD, February 2024

Recent publications
  • Mullany, L., Trickett, L., Bashford-Squires, S.,2023 Tackling online misogyny: what needs to be done in schools – and our communities. The Conversation [Online]
  • Bashford-Squires, S., Gibson, L. and Nyashanu, M., 2022. Mitigating gender-based violence through the economic empowerment of women: a case study of the Teso sub-region in Uganda. In Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development (pp. 371-391). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Frost, D. and Bashford-Squires, S., 2022. Value co-creation in the delivery of public services: formulating a strategy for low-and middle-income countries. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022, p.215.
  • Bashford-Squires, S. 2020. To Nudge or to Shove? The Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in relation to the social determinants of health. The British Sociological Association, Everyday Society [online]

Presentations
  • Oral presentation: The Impact of Women’s Economic Projects on Gender-Based Violence in Teso Sub-Region, Uganda. The British Sociological Association, online. September 2022
  • Oral presentation: The Importance of Reflexivity when working with an Indigenous Population The International Union for Health Promotion, Montreal, Canada (Online), February 2022
  • Oral presentation: The use of Autoethnography when working with an Indigenous Population. The University of Manchester Public Health Conference, October 2023
  • Oral presentation: The Impact of Social Enterprise Projects on Women’s Health in the Teso Sub-Region, Uganda. The World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, April 2023 Invited Chair: Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Workforce Policies and Governance, The World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 2023
  • Oral presentation: The Importance of Partnership when working in Low Resource Settings. International Lymphoedema Framework, Nottingham, May 2023
  • Oral presentation: An Exploration of How Women’s Social Enterprise Projects can Mitigate Issues of Climate Change in Teso Sub-Region, Uganda. Makerere University Environmental Health Conference, Kampala, Uganda, June 2023
  • Oral presentation: The Impact of Enterprise Projects on Community Health in Teso Sub-Region. The People’s Health Movement, Kampala, Uganda, February 2024