Dr Dawn Benson

Programme Manager

Dawn is a sociologist who specialises in safety investigation within health, social care, and education.  

She spent almost 20 years as an academic researching and teaching at the universities of Northumbria, Aberdeen, and Oxford.  

Her work in Human Factors and patient safety was born from personal experience when her first child was birth injured.  

She is particularly interested in how we improve services by engaging patient/service user perspective.  

She has worked  as a National Investigator at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) where she was previously seconded to establish the education function and developed the concept of Investigation Science.