Professorial Merit Award (2022)

Key evidence from my application for the University of Greenwich Professorial Merit Award The Professorial Merit Award is an internal (University of Greenwich) promotion which a professor can apply for, after at least three years of being a full professor. In my own case, this award is in the teaching career pathway. The application form

NMC revalidation 2021

After 5 years of initial nurse education (2 years for the Diploma in Orthopædic Nursing, then 3 years State Registered Nurse), I went on to the General Nursing Council’s register on 1 August 1979, added as a Registered Nurse Teacher in 1995 (UKCC). My first registration fee, which was meant to be a one-off for

Queen’s Nurse Award

I am truly honoured to have achieved the Queen’s Nurse Award, of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, 20 October 2022. I started work on the 7,000 word reflective portfolio as far back as Easter Bank Holiday time, then worked at it, weekend after weekend, until formal submission in July. The award is for community and primary

Another sexual health FRCN

In 2020, Dr Matthew Grundy-Bowers, Consultant Nurse in Sexual Health and HIV at the Jefferiss Wing, St Mary’s Paddington (Imperial NHS Trust), becomes a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. Matthew is the second out of three nominations I have put forward to the Royal College of Nursing, for its highest award. I am

The Psychic Shadows of HIV and AIDS

In 1997, I completed a 60,000 word MPhil thesis at the (then) University of Wales College of Cardiff.  I’ve told some of that story on a page of my  Vivat Academia WordPress site.  Further below on this page is the Abstract from that social science research. It’s 21 years today (13 July 1998 / 2019) since

Alison Hadley, OBE, HonDUniv

As with the successful nomination of Baroness Gould, for Honorary Doctor of the University, in 2011, I am truly honoured to have had another nomination accepted, this time for Alison Hadley, OBE, at the 2018 graduations of the University of Greenwich. Here are some extracts from what I wrote in nomination, back in 2017 …

Baroness Gould ~ a champion for inter-professional sexual health practice and education

For those of us working in various clinical and educational specialities of sexual health, the name of Baroness Joyce Gould is synonymous with a champion – our champion!  Her record as staunch promoter of gender equality, as well as sexual and reproductive rights, is second to none.  In 2011, I was fortunate to have nominated

Dr Kathy French, Nurse, HonFFSRH

Kathy French, RN, BSc(Hons), PGCE/RNT, MPhil, PhD, HonFFSRH For well over four decades, Dr Kathy French’s name has become synonymous with that of a tireless champion, advancing the expertise of clinical and educational nursing practice for the improvement of sexual and reproductive client healthcare. A testimony to Kathy French’s inspirational work and leadership is easy

Raising the standard for sexual health and nursing

There are a few pages in this series, hopefully for ever growing, dedicated to friends whom I have been fortunate enough to know in life.  But more than that, they are friends who have made outstanding contributions to sexual health / nursing.  Their greatness shines through anyway, but I have been doubly honoured for having

Finalist: Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2016

On 19th July 2016, 31 years to the day after graduating from the University of Kent at Canterbury, in the Cathedral, and 5 years to the day since achieving the professional doctorate in education (EdD) from the University of Greenwich, I was both humbled and honoured to be the recipient of a student nomination, and a finalist