Keiran Bellis is a Lecturer and Course Leader for the BSc Paramedicine programme at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, where he leads curriculum design and strategic development across paramedic education, with operational responsibility for interprofessional learning and practice-based education.
A Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered paramedic, Keiran brings over two decades of frontline experience in pre-hospital and emergency care, including roles within Ambulance Services across the United Kingdom and extensive clinical work across emergency departments, forensic settings, and major incident event medicine throughout the UK. His clinical practice continues alongside his academic role, ensuring a strong linkage between real-world healthcare delivery and higher education.
Keiran’s academic interests sit at the intersection of clinical decision-making, ethics, law, and mental health in emergency care. He is currently undertaking a PhD in Professional Practice exploring paramedics’ confidence in assessing mental capacity in patients presenting with suicidal ideation, an area of growing importance for public health, patient autonomy, and safeguarding. In addition to this Keiran has presented in the fields of epidemiology and wider public health issues within urgent, emergency, and unscheduled care.
Keiran is an active contributor to national and international academic and professional forums, presenting on topics such as mental capacity, remote triage, and clinical decision-making in emergency settings. He also serves as an external examiner for paramedic programmes and as a peer reviewer for specialist paramedic academic journals, supporting the advancement of evidence-based practice and educational standards.
He is a member of the Royal College of Paramedics, the Institute of Medical Ethics, and the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, reflecting his sustained commitment to advancing ethical, patient-centred care within paramedicine and broader health systems.
