Your PAL Academic Course Contact will be one of your main points of contact during your time as a PAL Leader as they are there to provide support to you and can assist with programme specific matters. If you have any problems or concerns about your PAL role, you need to inform both the Central PAL Team and your PAL Academic Course Contact.
You should contact your PAL Academic Course Contact and the Central PAL Team if:
To find out more about how your PAL Academic Course Contact can support you, what you can gain from them, and how they can benefit from you, please click on the PDF image to the right. The file will open in a separate tab.
Please see below for a list of the PAL ACCs across all four faculties.
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
| Programme | PAL ACC |
| HSS PAL main contact | Mike Knight |
| Nursing - Adult | Ashley Spriggs |
| Nursing - Mental Health | Teresa Burdett |
| Nursing - CYP | Alexandra Hull |
| Midwifery | Debbee Houghton/ Juliet Wood |
| Nutrition | Sarah Hillier |
| Paramedic Science |
Adam Bancroft |
| Physiotherapy | Kathryn Collins |
| Occupational Therapy | Saffron Scott |
| Social Work | Fiona Cusack |
| Sociology | Jayne Caudwell |
| Sociology & Criminology | Gavin Weston |
| Sociology & Anthropology | Rosie Read |
| Sociology & Politics | TBA |
| Operating Department Practice | Debora Almeida |
| Sport and Exercise Science (Clinical Science) | Rebecca Neal |
| Criminology | Mark Berry |
| Criminology & Psychology |
Caroline Andow |
| Criminology & Law |
Richard Heslop |
| Sports Therapy | Malika Felton |
| Registered Nursing Degree Apprenticeship | Dawn Morley |
Bournemouth University Business School
| Programme | PAL ACC |
| Events Management | Aravind Reghunathan |
| International Hospitality Management | Anya Chapman |
| Sports Development and Coaching Sciences | Daniel Lock |
| Sports Management | Daniel Lock |
| Sports Psychology and Coaching Sciences | Daniel Lock |
| Tourism Management | Anya Chapman |
| Business and Management (Business Studies) | Roberta Discetti |
| Accounting and Finance | Tahani Mohamed |
| BSc Marketing | Ediz Akcay |
| International Tourism Hospitality Management | Anya Chapman |
Faculty of Media and Communication
| Programme | PAL ACC |
| BA Communication and Media | Phil Wilkinson |
| English | Tom Masters |
| Marketing Communications | Sae Oshima and Mona Seyed Esfahani |
| Computer Animation Art and Design | Reza Yousefzadeh |
| Computer Animation Technical Arts | Oleg Fryazinov |
| Visual Effects | Adam Redford |
| History | Laura Ramsay |
| Multimedia Journalism | David Brine |
| Sports Multimedia Journalism | David Brine |
| Television Production | Carina Westling (PAL Leader Recruitment) Graham Majin (PAL Leader Support) |
| Politics | Jenny Alexander and Dawid Pekalski |
| Media Production | Isabel Forrest/Kathryn McDonald/Rebecca Bond/ Carolina Machado Oliveira |
| BA Film | Simon Perkins |
| Law | Melanie Stockton-Brown |
| Photography | James Fair |
Faculty of Science and Technology
| Programme | PAL ACC | |
| Computing (including Cyber Security Management) | Heather Mayes | |
| Music and Sound Production | Clive Radford | |
| Games Design | Huiwen Zhao | |
| Games Software Engineer | Karsten Pedersen (Leigh to also be contacted by Central PAL) | |
| Design and Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering | Russell Wade | |
| Psychology | Sarah Collard | |
| BA Archaeology | Tim Darvill | |
| BSc Archaeology | Dave Parham | |
| Archaeological, Anthropological and Forensic Sciences | Dave Parham | |
| Forensic Investigation | Sally Reynolds | |
| Forensic Science | Richard Paul | |
| Forensic Biology | Samuel Rennie | |
| Biological Science | Demetra Andreou | |
| Environmental Science | Iain Green | |
| Geography | Andrew Ford | |
| Anthropology | Fabio Parracho Silva | |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Ellen Hambleton | |
| Ecology and Wildlife Conservation | Amanda (Mandy) Korstjens | |
| Biomedical Sciences | Anna Mantzouratou | |
| Medical Sciences | Sarah Upson |