Emma Douglass University of the West of England, UK

Emma Douglass is a Senior Lecturer, working in the School of Health and Social Wellbeing at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.  She is a registered learning disability nurse and teaches across the nursing programme.  Emma teaches research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and allied health professionals, in addition to supervising degree and master’s students.  She is an early career researcher who has recently completed doctoral research. Emma used accessible research methods to explore how adults with learning disabilities are and want to be supported to make health decisions in line with Principle 2 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. At the time of writing Emma is starting a Research Launching Fellowship with Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, focusing on the health of women with learning disabilities.