Clare Dickens

Academic Lead for MH and Wellbeing- University of Wolverhampton, Offices of the Vice Chancellor PACE Project Lead

About Clare

Clare is a from a Mental Health Nursing back ground gaining practice and management experience within an array of settings to include psychiatric intensive care, substance misuse, primary care and mental health rehabilitation settings over the past 20 years. Clare has gained national and international esteem within the sphere of suicide prevention and Higher Education Student and staff Mental Health.

Clare won the Times Higher Education Award for outstanding student support in 2016 for her teaching and learning for staff; she has authored publications within the scope of suicide prevention practice and student mental health, and contributed to national policy guidance working with Universities UK Suicide Safer Universities. Clare is the chair of Wolverhampton’s Suicide Prevention Stakeholder’s Forum, overseeing the cities action plan for suicide prevention.