The Richard Wells Research Centre at Thames Valley University

Carol Pellowe

EdD MA(Ed) BA(Hons),RN RNT PGDARM
Deputy Centre Director and Principal Lecturer

Carol Pellowe is Principal Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Richard Wells Research Centre in the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at Thames Valley University.  She gained her BA (Hons) in Social Policy at Bedford College, London University, a Masters in Higher & Further Education and her doctorate at
the Institute of Education, London University.  Her doctoral thesis was on the experience of women tested HIV positive as a result of antenatal screening.

Carol has over a decade of experience in the field of HIV education, having managed the North West Thames AIDS Education Unit from 1988-1994, when it merged into the Wolfson Institute of Health Sciences. It was during this time that she met and worked closely with Richard Wells. She has taught extensively overseas in the university’s projects in India, the Arabian Gulf and Nigeria, sponsored by the British Council, and acted as WHO consultant developing and conducting educational programmes in the former Soviet Union. In 1999, she and her colleagues won the Robert Tiffany International Award from the Royal College of Nursing for their six-year action research project in west India and the Arabian Gulf. 

During her time at the Richard Wells Research Centre, she has been involved in a variety of research projects, ranging from adherence to antiretroviral therapy, sexual health and infection control. She was the Deputy Project Director of epic Phase 1: Developing Evidence-based Guidelines for the Prevention of Hospital-acquired Infection and  project manager for the NICE guideline Infection Control: Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections in Primary and Community Care. She managed the development of the Infection Prevention and Control e-learning programme for the NHS University (now NHS Core Learning Unit) and Department of Health and more recently the epic2 infection prevention guidelines.