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A timeline of professorial inaugural lectures

This page is a growing list of lectures from the nursing and midwifery professoriate

Inaugural lectures are a time honoured tradition for people who have been granted a chair in an organisation. Viewed in their entirety, they offer a fascinating glimpse into the evolving issues or topics of importance to nursing. We know that this list is far from comprehensive, so do please help us to fill in the gaps by emailing nicola.mills@rcn.org.uk. In addition, RCN Archives would love to receive electronic or hard copies of individual inaugural lectures.

The nursing professoriate in the UK

Information on professor post-holders at higher education institutions in the UK.

2023

Professor Julie Green
Keele University
Date: January 2023
Title: A Journey From Patient-Centred Care to Student-Centred Education

 

 

2021

Professor Jacqueline Leigh
University of Salford
Date: 27 May 2021
Title: The future of nurse education practice: imagining the art of the possible

David Evans
University of Greenwich
Date: 1 December 2021
Title: STILL speaking of sex; STILL challenging the limits of language.


2022

2020

Professor Debra Bick
University of Warwick
Date: 20 October 2020
Title: The importance of clinical trials in maternity care: why we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Professor Sarah Ryan
Keele University
Date: 27 April 2020 (postponed)
Title: The road to specialist practice: the evolution of rheumatology nursing

Professor June Keeling
Keele University
Date: 30 March 2020
Title: Stand by me: women's experiences of domestic violence and disclosure to healthcare providers

Professor Laura Serrant
Manchester Metropolitan University
Date: 6 February 2020
Title: Equal chance? On silences, speaking and the importance of being heard

Professor Christine Moffatt
Nottingham Trent University
Date: 28 January 2020
Title: Chronic oedema and wounds: a neglected global scandal and an international response (the LIMPRINT story)

Professor Sally Hardy
University of East Anglia
Date: 21 January 2020
Title: Infinite change within public sector organisations: praxis transformation and beyond

2019

Professor Louise Rose
King's College London
Date: 9 December 2019
Title: Mechanical ventilation: from hospital to home (and back)

Professor Tracey Williamson
University of Worcester
Date: 18 November 2019
Title: The experiences of dementia family carers: asking about, listening to, acting upon

Professor Linda Ross
University of South Wales
Date: 1 July 2019
Title: The changing landscape of spirituality in healthcare: time travel across three decades

Professor Fiona Cowdell
Birmingham City University
Date: 20 May 2019
Title: Knowledge to practice

Professor Lucy Bray
Edge Hill University
Date: 14 May 2019
Title: Children's health literacy: "What on earth does that mean?"

Professor Assumpta Ryan
University of Ulster
Date: 10 April 2019
Title: "We need to talk about dad": reflections on research with family carers and older people

Professor David Clarke
University of Leicester
Date: 8 April 2019
Title: Are you man enough to be a nurse?

Professor Alison Machin
Northumbria University
Date: 2 April 2019
Title: A problem shared: collaborative practice in healthcare and education

Professor Bronagh Blackwood
Queen's University Belfast
Date: 25 March 2019
Title: Caring in critical illness: from bedside care to research

Professor Jayne Marshall
University of Leicester
Date: 25 March 2019
Title: Call the midwife: the birth of midwifery education and leadership at the University of Leicester

Professor Sue McAndrew
University of Salford
Date: 13 March 2019
Title: 

Professor Sonja McIlfatrick
University of Ulster
Date: 13 March 2019
Title: Living matters, dying matters: an insight into the changing face of palliative care

Professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
Kingston University London
Date: 9 January 2019
Title: When somebody dies...learning from people with learning disabilities

2018

Professor Sara Kenyon
University of Birmingham
Date: 5 December 2018
Title: Great Expectations: the unexpected journey of a midwife

Professor Dawn Dowding
University of Manchester
Date: 14 November 2018
Title:

Professor Sam Porter
Bournemouth University
Date: 23 October 2018
Title: The fine art of healthcare: using art to think about people and practice

Professor Joy Duxbury
Manchester Metropolitan University
Date: 11 September 2018
Title: In defence of the indefensible: The use of physical restraint in health and social care settings – The Sequel

Professor Annetta Smith
University of the Highlands and Islands
Date: 26 June 2018
Title: Nursing and midwifery education and research in the Highlands and Islands: Lessons from the past, forging our future

Professor Nigel Harrison
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 4 June 2018
Title: Responsive health care education: future challenges and opportunities

Professor Aisha Holloway
University of Edinburgh
Date: 9 May 2018
Title: Complex alcohol interventions: the trials, theory and logic

Professor Nick McKeown
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 5 March 2018
Title: Bread and roses: activist imaginings for the future of mental health nursing

Professor Karen Wright
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 5 March 2018
Title: Nursing criticality: connections and collaborations for the 21st century

Professor Sheila McQueen
University of Sunderland
Date: 15 February 2018
Title: Practising as a professional and feeling and acting like a nurse: my personal reflections and narratives on a career in nursing

Professor Peter Martin
University of Essex
Date: 22 January 2018
Title: Last chance to see: the evolution of the mental health nurse

2017

Professor Jayne Price
Kingston University and St George's, University of London
Date: 14 December 2017
Title: Giants, perilous seas and the yellow brick road

Professor Bridget Johnston
University of Glasgow
Date: 1 November 2017
Title: End of life care: who's responsibility?

Professor Pauline Walsh
Keele University
Date: 2 October 2017
Title: Reflections on the past, present and future of nurse education: a personal journey

Professor Ruth Harris
King's College London
Date: 13 September 2017
Title: From idealism to realism: a nursing development journey

Professor Lis Neubeck
Edinburgh Napier University
Date: 28 June 2017
Title: State of the heart

Professor Susan Dawkes
Edinburgh Napier University
Date: 28 June 2017
Title: State of the heart

Professor Laura Serrant
Sheffield Hallam University
Date: 26 June 2017
Title: From silence to speaking: enabling 'other' voices through research

Professor Nicola Thomas
London South Bank University
Date: 26 June 2017
Title: Cold toast: the how and the why of patient and public involvement in kidney care

Professor Janice Gidman
University of Chester
Date: 8 June 2017
Title: Reflections on the complexity of learning in practice

Professor Jane Appleton
Oxford Brookes University
Date: 7 June 2017
Title: Safeguarding child wellbeing: the public health role of health visitors

Professor Raphaela Kane
Liverpool John Moores University
Date: 6 April 2017
Title: Patients, pragmatism and privilege: Influences on healthcare leadership

Professor Jackie Bridges
University of Southampton
Date: 4 April 2017
Title: Older people's care: how hard can it be?

Professor Rosalynd Jowett
University of East Anglia
Date: 24 March 2017
Title: Partnerships, politics and practice: academic life in the health sciences

Professor Kathleen Galvin
University of Brighton
Date: 22 March 2017
Title: Back to 'the matters': the need for the existential in caring

Professor Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Middlesex University
Date: 15 March 2017
Title: The "Art" of Aging

Professor Bernie Carter
Edge Hill University
Date: 7 March 2017
Title: A muffled clamour: turning up the volume on children's stories of pain and illness

Professor Ian Jones
Liverpool John Moores University
Date: 2 February 2017
Title: Cardiovascular Care - It's Only Half Time

Professor Mary O'Brien
Edge Hill University
Date: 26 January 2017
Title: End of life care: getting it right

Professor Patricia Grocott
King's College London
Date: 25 January 2017
Title: Found in translation

2016

Professor Catriona Kennedy
Robert Gordon University
Date: 23 November 2016
Title: Anticipatory care: a fundamental skill in nursing?

Professor Debra Salmon
City University, London
Date: 17 November 2016
Title:

Professor Alison Twycross
London South Bank University
Date: 13 September 2016
Title:

Professor Jan Dewing
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Date: 16 June 2016
Title: Workplace learning in nursing and healthcare: leading at the edge

Professor June Girvin
Oxford Brookes University
Date: 11 May 2016
Title: Reflections on nursing, leadership and a fabulous working life

Professor Gina Marie Awoko Higginbottom
University of Nottingham
Date: March 2016
Title:

Professor Paul Kingston
University of Chester
Date: 3 March 2016
Title: Revisiting Cicero in liquid modernity

Professor Debra Jackson
Oxford Brookes University
Date: 17 February 2016
Title: Promoting patient safety in acute and community settings: a whole systems approach

Professor Joanne Booth
Glasgow Caledonian University
Date: 10 February 2016
Title:

Professor Donna Fitzsimons
Ulster University and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Date: 9 February 2016
Title: Hand on heart: a critical reflection of cardiovascular risk, resistance and implementing research in clinical practice

Professor Brendan McCormack
Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
Date: 9 February 2016
Title: Achieving excellence in care: dancing with beauty rather than fighting ugliness

2015

Professor Liz Hughes
University of Huddersfield
Date: 9 December 2015
Title: 'Shunned' stigma and co-occurring mental health and substance use problems

Professor Helen Allan
Middlesex University
Date: December 2015
Title: Being critical: an uncomfortable sociological positioning for a nurse?

Professor Kim Manley
Canterbury Christ Church University
Date: 15 October 2015
Title: Fusing professional horizons: past, present & future for practice development research

Professor Roma Maguire
University of Surrey
Date: 12 October 2015
Title: eHealth: shaping the future of personalised healthcare 

Professor Kay Caldwell
Middlesex University
Date: 17 June 2015
Title: The essence of nursing: challenges for educators

Professor Debbie Roberts
Glyndwr University
Date: 11 June 2015
Title: Evidence-based practice in nurse education: are we practising what we preach?

Professor Linda McGowan
University of Leeds
Date: 4 June 2015
Title: Hearts and minds: a journey into women's health

Professor Josie Tetley
Manchester Metropolitan University
Date: 23 April 2015
Title: Nursing, ageing and long term conditions: positive choices and making a difference 

Professor Annette McIntosh-Scott
University of Chester
Date: 23 April 2015
Title: Education matters - on learning, teaching and the student experience in healthcare education

Professor Leanne Aitken
City University, London
Date: 14 April 2015
Title: Improving recovery after critical illness

Professor Debra Salmon
University of the West of England, Bristol
Date: April 2015
Title: The challenges of researching with disadvantaged groups to overcome health inequalities 

Professor Antony Arthur
University of East Anglia
Date: 17 March 2015
Title: Testing, testing: evidence-based nursing for an ageing society

Professor Ian Murray
Robert Gordon University
Date: 18 February 2015
Title: Nursing and Midwifery: possibly the most regulated profession in the UK so why do so many things seem to go wrong

Professor Ann Gallagher
University of Surrey
Date: 2015
Title: 

2014

Professor Janet Hargreaves
University of Huddersfield
Date: 10 December 2014
Title: The dream job: Humanitarian nursing with Médecins Sans Frontières

Professor Andrew Lovell
University of Chester
Date: 14 November 2014 
Title: Discursive Fractures: Man against himself and others (re-visited)

Professor Belinda Dewar
University of the West of Scotland
Date: 29 October 2014
Title: The grass is greener on this side: transforming health and social care

Professor Angela Tod
Sheffield Hallam University
Date: October 2014
Title: Scaling summits and navigating landscapes: understanding the challenges of accessing healthcare

Professor Sue Dyson
Middlesex University
Date: 19 June 2014
Title: Nurse education and nursing praxis: lessons for nurse education from the voices of experience

Professor Hora Soltani
Sheffield Hallam University
Date: 17 June 2014
Title: Towards universal health: breaking boundaries to reduce health inequalities for mothers and babies

Professor Jackie Sturt
King's College London
Date: 4 June 2014
Title: Would you like an appointment with the diabetes listener?

Professor Stephen Tee
King's College London
Date: 9 April 2014
Title: Compassion-based nurse education: seeing the whole person

Professor Jayne Donaldson
Edinburgh Napier University
Date: April 2014
Title:

Professor Steven Ersser
University of Hull
Date: 31 March 2014
Title: Rashes, Routes and Relationships: the nursing contribution to improving quality of life in the dermatological field 

Professor Patricia Wilson
Health Education Kent Surrey Sussex
Date: 14 March 2014
Title: Through the looking glass – when patient experience is more than a survey 

Professor Kathleen T Galvin
University of Hull
Date: 17 March 2014
Title: 

Professor Charmaine Childs
Sheffield Hallam University
Date: 11 March 2014
Title: How 'hot' is the injured brain? A journey from the outside to the centre of the human body

Professor Francine Cheater
University of East Anglia
Date: 4 March 2014
Title: Vaccination and public engagement: protecting health in the age of choice

Professor Liz Anderson
University of Leicester
Date: 11 February 2014
Title: 'Collective Wisdom’: Are we making the most of interprofessional education

Professor Tracy Humphrey
Robert Gordon University
Date: 29 January 2014
Title: Midwifery 2020: Where has all the normality gone?

Professor Mark Hayter
University of Hull
Date: 27 January 2014
Title: Everything you wanted to know about sexual health research...but were afraid to ask 

2013

Professor Michelle Briggs
Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University since Sep 2014)
Date: 27 November 2013
Title: Patients' experience of pain

Professor Lynn Kilbride
Edinburgh Napier University
Date: 14 November 2013
Title: Enabling potential whilst improving lives

Professor Margaret Fletcher
University of the West of England, Bristol
Date: 7 November 2013
Title: Researching with children: a journey through engineering, physiological, methodological and ethical challenges

Professor Christine Moffatt
University of Nottingham
Date: November 2013 

Professor Mary Steen
University of Chester
Date: 17 October 2013
Title: A Midwives journey through uncharted terrain

Professor Lene Martin
City University
Date: 4 October 2013
Title: Measures of vision: reaching out to an ageing population

Professor Ann Wakefield
University of Manchester
Date: 16 July 2013
Title: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: the need for interprofessional education

Professor Philip Keeley 
University of Manchester
Date: 16 July 2013
Title: Psychosocial aspects of physical illness - research, education and practice

Professor Amanda Clarke
Northumbria University
Date: 15 May 2013
Title: Looking back and moving forward: an autobiographical approach to ageing in research and person-centred nursing practice

Professor Jill Maben
King's College London
Date: 01 May 2013
Title: Care, compassion and ideals: nurses' experience of nursing

Professor Tonks (Josephine) Fawcett
University of Edinburgh
Date: 30 April 2013
Title: A career for nursing: passions, privileges, pains and purpose

Professor Charlotte Clarke
University of Edinburgh
Date: 23 April 2013
Title: Phew! For a minute there I lost myself - the experience of living with dementia

Professor Steve Robertson
Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University since Sep 2014)
Date: 23 April 2013
Title: Understanding men and health: musings on contradictory masculinities and wellbeing

Professor Alison Metcalfe
King's College London
Date: 10 April 2013
Title: Supporting families communication about genetic risk across the lifespan

Professor Fiona Irvine
Glyndwr University, Wrexham
Date: 14 March 2013
Title: What's so special about specialist nurses?

Professor Sue Read
Keele University
Date: 11 February 2013
Title: Living in the shadow of grief: Lessons learned from people with a learning disability

Professor Julie Jomeen
University of Hull
Date: 04 February 2013
Title: Babies on the brain: a research & service development story

Professor Mandy Fader
University of Southampton
Date: 28 January 2013
Title: More than just pads and pants: 30 years of research in incontinence products and devices

Professor Heather Loveday
University of West London
Date: 24 January 2013
Title: Evidence lost in translation

2012

Professor Nicky Cullum
University of Manchester
Date: 11 December 2012
Title: Grazed and confused: in search of an evidence base for wound care

Professor Alan Finnegan FRCN
Birmingham City University
Date: 17 October 2012
Title: Army nursing: from Scutari to Birmingham 

Professor Joy Duxbury
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 15 October 2012
Title: Defending the indefensible: physical restraint in mental health settings

Professor Ruth Deery
University of the West of Scotland
Date: 10 October 2012
Title: Relationship and caring for the soul in midwifery

Professor Vanora Hundley
Bournemouth University
Date: 03 October 2012
Title: Intervention in childbirth: how much is too much?

Professor Patricia Schofield
Greenwich University
Date: 27 September 2012
Title: Chronic pain in older adults

Professor Christine Hallett
University of Manchester
Date: 6 July 2012
Title: Nursing: the lost art? 


Professor Peter Griffiths
University of Southampton
Date: 29 June 2012
Title: Doing Away With Doctors? Workforce research and the future of nursing

Professor Helen Cooper
University of Chester
Date: 16 May 2012
Title: Riding the diabetes roller coaster

Professor Magi Sque
University of Wolverhampton
Date: 25 April 2012
Title: From seed corn to Naseberry tree: growing a programme of research in organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Film: http://vimeo.com/23919896

Professor David Gray
Birmingham City University
Date: 14 March 2012
Title:

Professor Jackie Stephen-Haynes
Birmingham City University
Date: 14 March 2012
Title: Tissue viability

Professor Keith Weeks
University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales since Apr 2013)
Date: 13 March 2012
Title: Veni, vidi, duci: a journey through the authentic world of medication dosage calculation problem solving

Professor Martyn Jones
University of Dundee
Date: 13 January 2012
Title: Looking after our nurses


2011

Professor Laura Serrant
University of Wolverhampton
Date: 26 October 2011
Title: Lady Superintendents, Sanitary Inspectors and Entrepreneurs...Community Nursing, 150 Years and Counting

Professor Carol Curran
University of Ulster
Date: October 2011
Title: East meets West: caring, cultures and competence

Professor Annie Young
University of Warwick
Date: 14 June 2011
Title: From El Alamein to Berlin? a trail of trials

Professor Jane Coad
Coventry University
Date: May 2011
Title: Children’s Voices Then and Now: Improving the lives of children and their families through research

Professor Paul Rogers
University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales since Apr 2013)
Date: 12 April 2011
Title: Mental health nursing research: what are the risks of that happening?

Professor Candy McCabe
University of the West of England, Bristol
Date: April 2011
Title: When illusion becomes reality: exploring the surreal world of pain

Professor Elizabeth Rosser
Bournemouth University
Date: 21 March 2011
Title: Too clever to care: education to lead nursing in a changing world

Professor Gill Furze
Coventry University
Date: 27 January 2011
Title: Biomedical vs Biopsychosocial treatments: the example of angina

Professor Claire Goodman
University of Hertfordshire
Date: 2011
Title: Going gently into that good night: end of life care for the oldest old

Professor Valerie Lattimer
University of East Anglia
Date: 2011

2010

Professor Kader Parahoo
University of Ulster
Date: 07 December 2010
Title: Nursing research: a force for good

Professor Kathleen McCourt
Northumbria University
Date: 22 November 2010
Title: Learning to help others: the role of professional education

Professor Kinta Beaver
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 11 November 2010
Title: It's good to talk: meeting the information needs of people with cancer

Professor Lorraine Ellis
University of Derby
Date: 10 November 2010
Title: Bringing Science to the bedside: against all odds

Professor Angus Forbes
King's College London
Date: 19 September 2010
Title: Contribution of nursing to diabetes care

Professor Mark Radford
Birmingham City University
Date: 14 July 2010
Title: Chaos theory, climbing and advanced nursing practice

Professor Jan Draper
Open University
Date: 14 June 2010
Title: The body in question: presence, paradox and the presence of nursing

Professor Jacqui Reilly
Glasgow Caledonian University
Date: 10 February 2010
Title: Healthcare associated infection: are hospitals doing the sick no harm?

Revd Professor Pauline Pearson
Northumbria University
Date: 08 February 2010
Title: People, priorities and professionalism: nursing and healthcare in a changing world

Professor Janet Marsden
Manchester Metropolitan University
Date: January 2010
Title: Ophthalmic nursing: past, present and where do we go from here?

Professor Anne Marie Rafferty
King’s College London
Date: 2010
Title: Professing nursing

Professor William Lauder
University of Stirling
Date: 2010
Title: What do high academic achieving school pupils really think about a career in nursing

Professor Christine Ingleton
University of Sheffield
Date: 2010
Title: What is the evidence base for palliative care nursing?

2009

Professor Tanya McCance
University of Ulster
Date: 09 December 2009
Title: Being person-centred: stories from the field

Professor Paul Crawford
University of Nottingham
Date: 03 December 2009
Title: Defrosting the clinic: on keeping the NHS human

Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
University of Chester
Date: 29 October 2009
Title: The stigma of inter-generational teenage pregnancy

Professor Catriona Kennedy
Edinburgh Napier University
Date: 17 September 2009
Title: Patients, policies and nursing 'know how'

Professor Judith Tanner
De Montfort University
Date: June 2009
Title: First do the sick no harm

Professor Steven Ersser
Bournemouth University
Date: 16 May 2009
Title: Rashes, Routes and Relationships: the nursing contribution to improving quality of life in the dermatological field 

Professor Carol Haigh
Manchester Metropolitan University
Date: 30 April 2009
Title: Memes and manicures, manolos and moral relativity: a critique of nursing research in the 21st century

Professor Wilfred McSherry
Staffordshire University/The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Date: 27 April 2009
Title: "Treatment versus care!" Reintegrating spirituality and dignity

Professor Sarah Hewlett
University of the West of England, Bristol
Date: 2009
Title: Keeping clinical research grounded: The patient perspective  

Professor Valerie Lattimer
University of Southampton
Date: 2008/2009 

2008

Professor Liz West
University of Greenwich
Date: December 2008
Title: Applying social science in health and social care

Professor Helen Langton
University of Derby
Date: November 2008
Title: Children and young people with cancer – a journey

Professor Marlene Sinclair
University of Ulster
Date: 19 September 2008
Title: The business of modern childbirth: a burgeoning technological industry

Professor Frances Gordon
Sheffield Hallam University
Date: 15 June 2008
Title: The mystery of the pink mini dress and other cultural surprises: interprofessional working as life

Professor Vari M Drennan
St. George's, University of London
Date: June 2008
Title: Perspectives on developing health care services outside of hospitals

Professor Barbara Jack
Edge Hill University
Date: 15 May 2008
Title: Data or Die: the need for research in nursing and palliative care

Professor Viv Coates
University of Ulster
Date: March 2008
Title: The discounted, unrecognised, silent killer

Professor Mary Nolan
University of Worcester
Date: 27 February 2008
Title: Educating for birth and parenting: a global perspective

Professor Fiona Irvine
Liverpool John Moores University
Date: February 2008
Title: Me, myself, I: adopting a self critical position in qualitative inquiry

Professor Richard White
University of Worcester
Date: 22 January 2008
Title: Tissue viability in tomorrow's NHS

Professor Julie Taylor
University of Dundee
Date: 2008
Title: Child maltreatment is a public health issue 

2007

Professor Sally Hardy
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
Date: November 2007
Title: Allowing practice development to take flight 

Professor Tony Long
University of Salford
Date: 05 July 2007
Title: Never work with children or animals! So what should a Professor of Child and Family Health do?

Professor Brenda Roe
Liverpool John Moores University
Date: 12 June 2007
Title: What constitutes evidence? Systematic reviews, evidence based practice or that's the way I see it.

Professor Jane Seymour
University of Nottingham
Date: 01 March 2007
Title: Compassion or compulsion: end of life care in a technological age

Professor Karina Lovell
University of Manchester
Date: Feb/Mar 2007
Title: Developing and evaluating accessible, acceptable, feasible and effective interventions for common mental health problems in primary care mental health

Professor Joyce Kenkre
University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales since Apr 2013)
Date: 13 February 2007
Title: Quality, honesty and professionalism

Professor Patrick Callaghan
University of Nottingham
Date: 16 January 2007
Title: The pursuit of ordinary unhappiness 

2006

Professor Ann Crosland
University of Sunderland
Date: November 2006
Title: Multi-disciplinary healthcare research: benefits, challenges and dilemmas

Professor Lawrie Elliott
Napier University
Date: May 2006
Title: Public health in modern society

Professor Maggie Kirk
University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales since Apr 2013)
Date: May 2006
Title: Letting the genie out of the bottle: Lessons from the past, preparing for the future

Professor Joan Curzio
South Bank University
Date: April 2006
Title: Developing practice: scaffolding, or bridging the gap

Professor Mervyn Morris
Birmingham City University
Date: 2006
Title: Working with WHO in disaster areas

2005

Professor Michael Traynor
Middlesex University
Date: 9 November 2005
Title: From Nightingale to EBM: a short history of nursing (approximately)

Professor John Keady
Northumbria University
Date: 1 November 2005
Title: Building on the past: a personal journey through dementia care nursing

Professor Mike Thomas
Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University since Sep 2014)
Date: Autumn 2005
Title: Eating disorders - paradoxes

Professor Mike Cook
Anglia Ruskin University
Date: May 2005
Title: Modernising health and social care – is leadership the answer?

Professor Bob Gates
Thames Valley University (University of West London since April 2011)
Date: 27 January 2005
Title: Marching forward to stand still: learning disability services in context

Professor Morag Gray
Edinburgh Napier University
Date: 2005
Title: Mentoring for all reasons: the good, the bad and the ugly

Professor Anne-Marie Rafferty
King's College London
Date: 2005

Professor June Andrews
University of Stirling
Date: 2005
Title: Dementia: the thief of time

Professor Ros Bryar
City University
Date: 2005

Professor Margaret Smith
University of Glasgow
Date: 2005
Title: The modernization of nursing 

2004

Professor Ruth Northway
University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales since Apr 2013)
Date: 5 October 2004
Title: Learning disability nursing: it's not just what, but why and how

Professor Melanie Jasper
Canterbury Christ Church University
Date: October 2004
Title: Reflective practice: myth or mystery?

Professor Caroline Watkins
University of Central Lancashire
Date: Autumn 2004
Title: Research and clinical practice: Romulus and Remus, or Brothers in Arms? 

Professor Christi Deaton
University of Manchester
Date: June/July 2004

Professor Alan White
Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University since Sep 2014)
Date: April 2004
Title: Being male in the 21st century

Professor Debra Bick
Thames Valley University (University of West London since Apr 2011)
Date: April 2004
Title: Love's Labour's Lost: challenges to midwifery in the 21st century

Professor Kate Gerrish
University of Sheffield
Date: March 2004
Title: Evidence-based practice: academic aspiration or formula for front-line nurses

Professor Soo Downe
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 2004
Title: Full Moon and Little Frieda: insights from a midwifery journey

Professor Sam Porter
Queen's University Belfast
Date: 2004
Title: Is sociology any use to nurses?

Professor Bernie Carter
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 2004?
Title: Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Pain stories from children: lessons for practice

2003

Professor Jane Sandall
King's College London
Date: 20 November 2003
Title: Transforming childbirth: women, midwives and the politics of reproduction

Professor Charlotte Humphrey
King's College London
Date: 2003
Title: Ways of seeing: professional perspectives on the social world

Professor Tina Lavender
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 2003

2002

Professor Julie Scholes
University of Brighton
Date: 23 April 2002
Title: Critical to care: nurses in transition

Professor Alison Richardson
King's College London
Date: April 2002
Title: Sick and tired...of the research practice gap in nursing

Professor Dawn Freshwater
Bournemouth University
Date: 15 January 2002
Title: You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps – pathology in a postmodern world

Professor Hugh McKenna
University of Ulster
Date: 2002
Title: Evidence Based Practice: does profusion of evidence cause confusion in practice

Professor Brendan McCormack
University of Ulster
Date: 2002
Title: In appreciation of wisdom - the voice of the older person

Professor Ruth Endacott
La Trobe University, Australia
Date: 2002
Title: Developing clinical wisdom: a challenge for academia and healthcare

Professor Charlotte Clarke
Northumbria University
Date: 2002

Professor Christine Norton
King's College London and St Mark's Hospital
Date: 2002
Title: Specialist nursing and continence 

2001

Professor Claire Hale
University of Leeds
Date: 19 March 2001
Title: Scholarship and the discipline of nursing

Professor Annette Jinks
Staffordshire University
Date: 2001
Title: Student nurse attitudes to gender stereotypes

2000

Professor Julienne Meyer
City University, London
Date: 7 September 2000
Title: Promoting better care for older people

Professor Carol Cox
City University, London
Date: June 2000
Title: Advanced Practice Nursing - The Dawn of a New Era

Professor Roger Watson
University of Hull
Date: 20 March 2000
Title: Elitism, advanced practice and the Charge of the Light Brigade

Professor Sheila Payne
University of Sheffield
Date: 2000
Title: Loss

1999

Professor Sarah Cowley
King's College London
Date: 01 July 1999
Title: Ownership and opportunity in a practice discipline: public health and nursing

Professor Debbie Tolson
Glasgow Caledonian University
Date: 1999

1998

Professor Alison Tierney
University of Edinburgh
Date: 25 November 1998
Title: Nursing research in a changing context

Professor Liz Meerabeau
Greenwich University
Date: 21 April 1998
Title: Immigrants to the New World: reflections on the identity of nursing

1997

Professor Ian Norman
King's College London
Date: June 1997
Title: Collaboration in, competition out! Inter-professional working in the health professions

Professor Sally Glen
University of Dundee
Date: May 1997
Title: Inter-professional education

Professor Martin Johnson
University of Central Lancashire
Date: 1997
Title: Sense and nonsense in nursing science

Professor Robert Pratt
Thames Valley University (University of West London since Apr 2011)
Date: 1997

1996

Professor Barbara Parfitt
Glasgow Caledonian University
Date: 21 November 1996
Title: New profession or Dying Art

Professor Jessica Corner
Institute of Cancer Research
Date: November 1996
Title: Nursing and the counter culture of cancer

Professor Mary Renfrew
University of Leeds
Date: March 1996
Title: Women, research and the health services

Professor Sally Kendall
Buckinghamshire University College
Date: 1996
Title: What do we mean by evidence? Implications for primary health care nursing

1995

Professor Vince Ramprogus
Northumbria University
Date: October 1995
Title: Challenges facing nursing: implications for nurse education and knowledge development

1994

Professor Jean McIntosh
Glasgow Caledonian University
Date: 1994
Title: The question of knowledge in district nursing

1993

Professor Alison While
King's College London
Date: 1993
Title:

1992

Professor Jill Macleod Clark
King's College London
Date: 10 September 1992
Title: From sick-nursing to health-nursing: evolution or revolution?

Professor Peter Bradshaw
Bournemouth University
Date: 1992

Professor Alan Glasper
University of Southampton
Date: 1992
Title: Innovations in children's nursing

1991

1990

1989

Professor Justus Akinsanya
Dorset Institute of Higher Education (Bournemouth University since 1992)
Date: 7 June 1989
Title: Nursing links with higher education: a prescription for change in the 21st century

1988

Queens Nursing Institute Professor of Community Nursing, Tony Butterworth

University of Manchester

Title: Breaking the Boundaries – new endeavours in Community Nursing


1987

1986

Professor Jennifer Boore
University of Ulster
Date: c. 1986

Unknown year

Professor Owen Barr
Ulster University
Title: Access to general healthcare for people with learning disabilities