Dot Smith
CEO, Recovery Connections
Biography
Dot Smith has worked in health and social care for 35 years. Her experience in the addiction field spans 20 years and for the past 5 years as CEO of Recovery Connections, a lived experience recovery organisation based in the North East of England.
In 2017 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research Collegiate Recovery Programmes in North American Universities. Following the fellowship she successfully launched a collegiate recovery programme at Teesside University and developed a study abroad programme with Texas Tech University.