Dr Chris Knifiton is Associate Professor supported topic themes around dementia, childhood dementia, learning disability, neurodiversity, andragogy, and teaching and learning. He is a Registered learning disability nurse with the NMC, a sregistered social worker with soicial work England, and an Admiral nurse with Dementia UK.
Within the university, Chris hoilds roles on Equality prompts, Equality Impact Assessments and helping both staff and student become more neurodiverse aware. He also talks with staff and studenst about dementia support and support for the carer in his Admiral nurse role and is currently reseraching the experiences of HEI studenst who are carers when studying at university.
He teaches on apprentice paramedic courses, the paramedic science course, nursing (all fields of practice), Professional nurse Advocates, ACPs and social work. His teaching aligns to his topic themes as key areas of interest and reserach.
He is a regular speaker at conferences both locally, nationally and internationally on dementia, neurodiversity and autism. Chris is very open about his own autism diagnosis and its impact, talking widely abour neurodiverse-abiities and strengths of being neurodivergent.
Chris's doctoral thesis was on the sociology of dementia.