
Ash Brownett
Academic and research departments
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, School of Health Sciences.Biography
Ash graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of the West of England in 2009. Following this degree he pursued a more clinical role and joined the Physiotherapy team at Bristol Royal Infirmary. In his role as a Physiotherapy Technical Instructor he completed multiple rotations throughout the hospital which included; Respiratory Medicine, Cardiac Intensive Care, Elderly Care, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Chronic Pain Clinics, Musculoskeletal Outpatients, Amputee's and Neurology.
After some research into the next career path of either becoming a qualified Physiotherapist or changing career to become a Paramedic, he chose to return to University and study a BSc (Hons) in Paramedic Science at the University of Surrey. He graduated with a first class honours degree in 2016 and has since been employed by South East Coast Ambulance Service.
Since qualifying as a Paramedic Ash has completed work both in and outside the ambulance service. He has worked as an Expedition Paramedic twice and travelled to the Amazon rainforest to provide medical support to one of the toughest ultra marathons on the planet. He has also qualified as an NAEMT instructor for Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) courses.
In his current role he works part time as a Teaching Fellow at the University and part time as an Experienced Paramedic with the local Ambulance Service.
My teaching
Ash teaches across the health science programmes but has a main focus in the Paramedic Science programme. He is also a Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) Instructor for NAEMT in conjunction with the College of Paramedics.