Prof Tarenah Dean

Tara is a Professor of Health Sciences at University of Portsmouth and has led a number of national and international research projects in many areas across the health service.

She has published widely in leading medical and scientific journals and over the years has raised over £4,000,000 for her research. Environmental design for older people is a new area of research she has engaged in. She has been a co-author of two systematic reviews in the area, and supervisor of PhD students working in this field.

She has been a convenor of a European Science Foundation exploratory workshop on "Evidence-based environmental design for older people: From initiation to dissemination, enhancing the paradigm of design research". Within the University she is also the Associate Dean [Research] for the Science Faculty and is the Portsmouth lead for the Department of Health funded Research Design Service, providing support to all health care professionals undertaking R&D in South Central England.

She is a strong advocate of evidence based practice and has written number of articles on this area. She has been an external tutor on the internationally recognised multi-disciplinary Masters programme in Evidence Based Health Care run at the University of Oxford. She has led on the development of a continued professional development course on “Putting Evidence into Practice” which is offered to healthcare professionals in the South Central region.