Sheri Oduola is a mental health nurse, academic and researcher. She is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences.  Prior to joining UEA in 2017, she was a project manager on a range of NIHR Biomedical Research Centre funded programmes including the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) Consent for Contact (C4C) programme, which is a searchable register through which researchers can identify potential participants who have given broad consent to be contacted for research  studies.  She was also a research manager at the NIHR Mental Health Research Network for South London and South East region.

After completing her nurse education, Sheri worked as a mental health nurse in range of clinical settings at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, including psychiatric intensive care, acute/forensic inpatient and community mental health. Her clinical work has primarily focused on supporting people with psychotic disorders. 

Sheri completed an MSc in Health Services Research and a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology, both at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

Her main research interests and expertise are in: 

Epidemiology of psychosis and severe mental illness

• Quantitative research methodology, with expertise in cohort studies, cross-sectional surveys, experimental studies and electronic healthcare records
• Social factors in the aetiology, course and outcome of psychosis
• Ethnicity and mental disorders
• Pathways to care and health service utilisation
• Sociology of mental illness

Sheri teaches across nursing and allied health professions curricula and supervises postgraduate students’ research projects/theses.

She is a visiting Lecturer and Researcher at King’s College London, SLaM Biomedical Research Centre and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS trust. She is a member of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK.

Academic Lead for Research, MSc Nursing