Nick Pollard is Research Coordinator for Occupational Therapy in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research and is a Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy. He was appointed to this post in September 2003.Nick graduated as an occupational therapist in 1991 from Derby School of Occupational Therapy. He gained a BA in Communication Studies from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1979, an MA in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Society in 1996 from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Occupational Therapy in 2001 from Sheffield Hallam University . He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1986 as well as a Diploma in Radio Journalism from Falmouth Technical College in 1982.

Nick has worked in the NHS as a senior and a head occupational therapist in psychiatry. Before taking his post at Sheffield Hallam University , he was a Senior Occupational Therapist in an assertive outreach team in South Yorkshire.

Nick 's research interests are in the areas of young people with dementia, learning difficulties, experiences of mental illness and developing community and citizenship skills through community organisations, such as publishing co-operatives (with which he has an extensive background), in order to address occupational apartheid, occupational deprivation and occupational injustice.

Nick has published in peer reviewed journals and influential texts and his work has been presented at international conferences in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. He is one of the editors of Occupational Therapy Without Borders: Learning From the Spirit of Survivors, published by Churchill Livingstone in December 2004 and recently translated into Spanish by Panamericana.