Nova Corcoran is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion & Public Health at the University of East London.Before joining the University of East London in 2002 as a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion and Public Health, Nova worked as a health promotion practitioner and researcher. She currently teaches across level 1, 2, and 3 undergraduate health studies programmes and on the MSc Health Promotion/Public Health programmes. Nova is also the editor of Communicating Health, published by SAGE in 2007.