Bradford professor awarded prestigious opportunity to teach in the USA
A leading expert in end-of-life care from the University of Bradford will be heading to Minnesota later this year to share his expertise with students at the University of Minnesota.
, 50th Anniversary Professor (End-of-Life Care) and Academic Director of the has been successful in receiving a Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Kellehear said: "I'm delighted to be offered this wonderful opportunity to teach at a major Public Liberal Arts College in the USA. I will be teaching an interdisciplinary course about death, dying & end of life care as well as offering some public lectures to the college town community.
“I feel honoured and grateful toward the University of Bradford for giving me the time to take up this opportunity - an opportunity that I hope will also add to our growing international profile as a British university."
Professor Kellehear will be at the University of Minnesota at Morris - the dedicated Liberal Arts College of that university for one semester, from late August to December.
Past participants of the award include Bernice Johnson Reagon, historian and civil rights activist; Gloria Ladson-Billings, path breaking author in the field of culturally relevant pedagogy; Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate in chemistry and leading global health researcher; and Gary Nabhan, ethnobiologist and internationally celebrated nature writer and agrarian activist.