An Ethic of Care: From Palliative Care Practise to Professor
This fascinating inaugural lecture will give an
autobiographical overview of a far-from-linear journey to Professor of Palliative and End of Life Care.
Being a Clinical Nurse
Specialist in Palliative Care has left footprints in the life of Professor Joanne Atkinson that contribute
to the very nature of both leadership and research. She will outline the
influences that have informed her academic leadership, describe how her research has made a difference to the dying person and their loved ones, and
reflect on how both of these important journeys have informed and
strengthened each other to make her the person she is today.
About the Speaker
Professor Joanne Atkinson is Head of Department for Social Work, Education
and Community Wellbeing. Joanne has been in leadership roles within the
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences since 2010. She is an expert in
palliative and end of life care, following a career in this sphere of
practice, and she continues to work across these disciplines at a regional,
national and international level. She has a wealth of external
experience in multi-professional health and social care workforce
development.
Building on her doctoral studies, her research in palliative and
end of life care is varied, collaborative and interdisciplinary.
Specifically, her work has sought to move from the biomedical dominated model
to understanding death and dying in it’s broadest social, historical and
cultural contexts. Particularly, the discourses of death and dying underpin
Joanne’s approach to research. Joanne is focused on building research
capacity in this sector and has therefore been engaged in consultancy with
national charitable organisations.
She is also a Trustee for a national cancer charity called
mynewhair, leading the charity from a small-scale not-for-profit organisation
into an international registered charity. Joanne is recognised as an expert
in chemotherapy-induced hair loss and regularly invited to speak
internationally. She is also on the ethics committee at St Cuthbert’s
hospice.
