University of Salford

Department Member, School of Nursing

Senior Lecturer

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Barbara Hastings-Asatourian is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing at the University of Salford, and a Social Entrepreneur.  She is a director of two very successful businesses and a thriving Business Network.  Her professional career has provided her with considerable experience in the field of sex and relationships education, having worked as a nurse, midwife, health visitor and teacher/lecturer. This has included working with teenage parents, developing parenting skills, sex and relationship education in school, delivering maternity care and parentcraft education to young parents. In her teaching role she has incorporated sex and relationship education into her programmes.

Barbara is committed to equality and diversity, and has been widely cited from her MSc Dissertation, Single White Female, which was published by the Race Relations Research Unit in 2000 as Gatekeeping Inequity.  Her most recent published reports include an Evaluation of Sure Start Plus in Manchester and Salford with Julie Wray in 2006, and a Workforce Development Report for the Greater Manchester Sexual Health Network with Lesley Greenhalgh in 2008.

Barbara is an enthusiastic and tenacious Social Entrepreneur who has combined her nursing, midwifery health visiting and nurse teaching background with business skills to innovate in sex education.  She has been nominated for and won several awards for developing innovative sex education resources in English and localised in several languages.  Her innovative work is featured as part of the University of Salford's Real world Focus project at http://www.rgc.salford.ac.uk/page/real_world_focus_vid and http://www.rgc.salford.ac.uk/page/contraception_board_game

Barbara has also been highly commended for her volunteer work in preventing domestic abuse and supporting women through the Freedom Programme, as Chair and Trustee of Glossop Women's Aid,  and through the Prince's Trust for  supporting Prince's Trust Business Programme clients as a mentor and Glossopdale Community College in the Prince's Trust Excel Club.

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