Jane Wilson

Having been a senior lecturer at Westminster University since 1998, initially  responsibility for teaching various aspects of the BSc undergraduate course in Chinese medicine: Acupuncture, and as Course Leader for MSc Chinese medicine: Acupuncture, over the last five years I have moved into Global health and biomedicine. Currently being Module Leader for the Master's module Global approaches to health and wellbeing and teaching anatomy and physiology brings me in to contact with a wise range of university students.

My background started as a physiotherapist, trained at The Royal London Hospital 1974-1977, and have continued to be a practising member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Health Professionals' Council since this time; working in the National Health Service from 1977-1987, including the role of Senior physiotherapist on the neurosurgery ward at St. Bartholomew's Hospital London. In 1980 I travelled to study and work in the Centre for Neurological Rehabilitation in Toronto, Canada. Returning to the UK in 1981 I set up and ran a community physiotherapy project in hackney, London over the next two years.

In 1983 I joined the Middlesex Hospital teaching staff as a student. Qualifying as a teacher in 1984 through a one year Dip.Ed. at Garnett College, I was then awarded a Diploma in Teaching Physiotherapy from The Middlesex Hospital central London. Leaving The Middlesex hospital in 1986 I then taught many adult student groups anatomy and physiology, both within the NHS, social services and private colleges.

Expanding my clinical skills I completed courses in Shiatsu with The Shiatsu Society and later spent one year (1989) training at Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese medicine with the main focus on acupuncture under Prof Xiao, Prof Zhou and many others, ably assisted in translations by You Ben Lin and Sun Pei Lin. In 1993 I became a member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC). 

Leaving clinical practise for a year I completed a Master's degree in research methods from Kings College University of London in 1994. Returning to work after this at private clinics in the West End of London specialising in dance and sports injuries. During this time I was also teaching biomedical sciences to groups of acupuncture students.

Alongside starting work at Westminster University I set up my own practice, 'The Treatment Room', in 1998, situated in a creative media hub in Shoreditch near the City of London, where I still have a vibrant private practice. 

During my career I have held many roles, for example I was a member of the Education Committee of the British Acupuncture Council, being part of the working party that developed the first syllabus for Education Guidelines for Acupuncture as well as running a Consensus Building Exercise on Unity in Diversity for the membership of the BAcC. I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.   I have also have positions as External examiner to North London Finchley college and York Colleges of acupuncture, as well as advisory research positions at Reading College of acupuncture. 

I am a member COHERE wellbeing. In the summer of 2013 I presented at the University of Westminster Summer School on the Ethics and clinical application of Acupuncture for Stroke Care and in September 2013 I gave an oral presentation and paper on the Pericardium Xin Bao at the IASTAM conference in Korea. I am currently enrolled in PhD with Nanjing University through the Shu Lan Institute.    

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.