Zoe Grant
Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Radiography
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338550
- z.grant3@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Health, Sciences and Society
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As Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Sciences and Society, Zoe enjoys teaching across programmes (undergraduate and postgraduate), sharing her specialist knowledge of radiotherapy and oncology. Zoe joined University of Suffolk at the beginning of 2018, as a lecturer in Therapeutic Radiography, until which she had worked clinically as a Senior Therapeutic Radiographer within the NHS.
In 2023 Zoe lead on the development of a new PgC for Practice Education for Healthcare Professionals and now leads this course. Additionally, she has collaborated with a practice partner to validate a therapeutic radiography route within the PgC Computed Tomography and PgC Magnetic Resonance Imaging courses.
In recent months Zoe has enjoyed the challenge of a more senior role, as Interim Associate Dean of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience. Working across the university has enhanced her understanding of quality in higher education and curriculum development as well as building on her leadership and management. This interim post followed a secondment as AHP Lead for Immersive Technology and Simulation, due to an interest in the utilisation of a range of technologies to enhance clinical simulation education. As an experienced Course Leader, Zoe was able to work with AHP course teams to embed immersive technologies within their teaching.
Therapeutic Radiography is a specialist profession and Zoe continues to work with several partners to ensure there is continuity in raising the profile of the profession and has completed a College of Radiographers funded project to explore therapeutic radiographer career outreach in the UK, as well as NHSE funded projects to improve routes in to AHP degree programmes for Armed Forces Personnel. Further to this, Zoe is keen to support the current cancer workforce and engaged in several projects nationally and was a member of the writing team for the new AHP Enhanced Practice Framework for Therapeutic Radiography.
- Curriculum design and development across a range of courses.
- Writing national frameworks for AHP education.
- Case based learning, flipped classroom and interactive approaches developed across my teaching delivery.
- Developing clinical skills teaching and clinical simulation across AHP programmes, particularly the therapeutic radiography programme and consideration of these for online delivery to enhance student experience.
- Specialist subject knowledge – female reproductive cancers, living well with and beyond cancer, prehabilitation & rehabilitation in cancer care, clinical education.
- Module leadership across BSc.(Hons) Therapeutic Radiography, as well as Living Well with Cancer module within MSc. Advanced Practice.
- Designing a student negotiated assessment within the Level 6 Living Well with and Beyond Cancer module and the Level 7 Living Well with Cancer module.
Currently completing a MA Professional Practice: Integrated Care and plan to continue to PhD study within the field of radiotherapy and oncology.
Specialist subject knowledge –
- radiotherapy
- therapeutic radiography
- female reproductive cancers
- living well with and beyond cancer
- prehabilitation & rehabilitation in cancer care
- Clinical education
Research Interests –
- Living Well with Cancer
- Cancer Workforce
- AHP Workforce
- Prehabilitation and rehabilitation in cancer care
- Pelvic Radiation Disease
- Late Effects of radiotherapy
Undergraduate and postgraduate research project supervision – working as the academic lead across several undergraduate group research projects and individual postgraduate research projects, supporting students to submit their work for publication and/or presentation at conferences.
Publications :
Grant, Z. (2023) Armed Forces in Allied Health: Identifying the gaps in recognition of prior learning credit and entry requirements of Armed Forces Personnel entering AHP training programmes. Health Education England.
Cox, A., Grant Z., Raine, R., Westcot, L (2023) Armed Forces into Allied Health: Routes to academic study for career changers. Health Education England. Available at:
Grant, Z. (2020) ‘Introducing a cancer survivorship module into the undergraduate radiotherapy curriculum’. Radiography. 26:S1 p.S28
Project Lead for Health Education England (HEE) funded project - Identifying the gaps in Recognition Prior to Learning (RPL) credit and entry requirements of Armed Forces Personnel entering AHP training programmes. Full report can be viewed here:
Project Lead for HEE funded project to improve recruitment to the therapeutic radiography programme. This will be investigating use of interactive and online resources development to widen reach, to increase applications and in turn number of enrolled students.
Delivering CPD study days for health and medical professionals on early diagnosis of cancer.
With an interest in living well with cancer, I am keen to develop and improve education resources for the cancer workforce and wider health workforce, to ensure service users and their families and carers experience the best quality of life.
Working as part of a multi-institutional programme to develop virtual clinical simulation for radiography education across Europe, as part of the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Erasmus exchange programme.
Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
Society & College of Radiography
HE Fellowship
Member of the national writing group for Therapeutic Radiography Enhanced Level Apprenticeship.
Member of the National Steering Group for Therapeutic Radiography Careers.
Member of the Late Effects of Radiography Specialist Interest Group, Society & College of Radiographers.