Honorary Fellow - David Croisedale-Appleby
PROFESSOR DAVID CROISDALE-APPLEBY OBE, MStJ, JP, BSc, MA, MTech, MA(Lit), PhD, HonDCL, HonDBA, HonDSc, HonDLitt, FAcSS, FRSA, FIoD, FRSPH, HonFCSFS
An academic and career polymath, David was a Board member then Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP) for many years, during which time the Council grew to represent some 3,000 members spanning 27 specialties.
David is deeply involved in health and social care policy, holding a number of Ministerial appointments within the Department of Health. His areas of professional interest include the integration of health and social care; dementia; mental health and learning disability. He also advises the Department on social work education and practise and undertook for the government his Independent Review of Social Work Education Re-visioning Social Work Education published in 2014, in which he laid out a visionary blueprint for social work education which has been embraced by the government in its formal response, and hugely welcomed by the profession. .
David’s current career embraces many national and international roles. He is the Executive Chairman of the government’s Standing Commission on Carers and chairs Dementia UK. He is a longstanding GMC Inspector of Medical Education, and a Non-Executive Director and the Chair of Audit and Risk of Health Education England, with special responsibility for Higher Education, Medical Education, Quality and the NHS Leadership Academy. As the Chair of the Public Health Advisory Committee of NICE he chaired the creation of national guidance on Longterm Sickness and Incapacity (2009), the Care of People with Dementia (2012), and currently chairs the creation of guidance on the Prevention of Drug Misuse and the guidance on Physical Exercise. He has chaired a number of international conferences on related subjects.
A prominent international campaigner for social justice, David is the Honorary Ambassador for the United Kingdom for the Nelson Mandela Legacy Project, the creation of the first specialist Paediatric Hospital to serve the children of the 15-country Southern Africa Development Community. David holds several professorial posts and a number of honorary doctorates. He was elected a Fellow and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and won the prestigious Sunday Times Non-Executive Director of the Year Award in 2016 for his work in the field of dementia. David was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences in 2015.