Nominations for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

The Reverse Mentoring Practice Ltd is the first spin-out company from the School of Health Sciences.

Our vision is to eliminate discrimination, one conversation at a time, through the power of Reverse Mentoring for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – ReMEDI - where leaders are mentored by people in more junior positions or marginalised groups like disabled people or minority ethnic groups.

Originally developed to address workplace inequalities in the NHS, ReMEDI has now been implemented in higher education, research councils, local government and the private sector.

The positive impact on inclusive cultures has been recognised widely – we have worked with 61 organisations and facilitated 127 cohorts of reverse mentoring, which totals 14,000 game-changing inclusion conversations, providing wide-reaching societal benefit.

Project team

University of Nottingham Team​

• Stacy Johnson.
• Professor Catrin Evans.

RMP team

• Benjamin Sullivan CEO
• Adriana Salazar Mendez
• Charlotte Parker
• Heather Ridley
• Robina Begum
• Naomi Buthee

Falls in care home residents are common and can result in fractures, bruising, skin tears and reduced mobility, often leading to hospital admission.

Created and co-developed by the Nottingham team, our Action Falls programme trains care home staff in small groups to assess situations where there is a risk of falls occurring and to take preventative action.

Training is given to everyone in the care home, from owners to carers and visitors. 

In the last three years this cost-effective programme has produced a measurable change in more than 200 care homes, impacting 2,000 residents and 1,500 staff, in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. In the largest UK care home it reduced falls by 43%.

The government has committed to fund a national roll out of action in winter 2023, reaching 15,000 care homes.

Project team

University of Nottingham team

• Professor Pip Logan​
• Dr Fran Allen​
• Dr Janet Darby​
• Dr Jane Horne
• Sandra Burgess

 Co-applicants

• Adam Gordon​
• Paul Leighton

 Further contributors

• Professor Elizabeth Orton
• John Galdman
• Maureen Godfrey