Dr David Whiteley
Lecturer
Department of Nursing and Community Health
Dave qualified as a registered nurse in 2005 from the University of Dundee, and subsequently built his clinical career within the field of infectious diseases, specialising in the care of people living with blood borne viruses. After moving into academia in 2017, he joined GCU as a lecturer in March 2021, teaching across the undergraduate nursing programme.
Dave’s research focuses on marginalised communities and liver health. He has ongoing interests in the experience of people living with the hepatitis C virus, and the decentralisation of testing, treatment and care. His work has broader links to the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs, and substance use more generally. More recently, he has focused on alcohol use among sexual and gender minorities, exploring targeted marketing by the alcohol industry, and potential interventions to help sexual minority women reduce their drinking. Dave has a track record of successfully leading both large and small research grants as PI, and is a member of the substance use research group, and the sexual health and blood borne virus research group, both of which sit within the Research Centre for Health (ReaCH).
Current doctoral supervision includes an exploration of the experience of hepatitis C reinfection, sober spaces for LGBTQ+ people, and continuity of carer for women and their midwives.