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ICCHNR President, Professor Jean McIntosh, OBE
Jean McIntosh is Professor of Community Nursing Research at Glasgow Caledonian University where she leads the Health in the Community Grouping. She supervises a number of PhD students, is chair of the Education and Research sub-group of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland and President of the International Conferences on Community Health Nursing Research.
Jean trained as a general nurse at University College Hospital London, and following staff nurse posts undertook midwifery training at St Thomas’ Hospital. She then did a full time honours degree in sociology at the London School of Economics. She subsequently took up a post as Research Assistant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she first developed her interest in community nursing research. She continued her work in the community nursing field after moving to Scotland and taking up the post of Research Fellow at Aberdeen University. It was here that she gained her PhD for a study that focused on district nursing.
Jean became Senior Nurse Research at Greater Glasgow Health Board, in 1981, a challenging role that straddled research and management. She moved to Glasgow Caledonian University to take up the post of Queen’s Nursing Institute, Scotland Reader in Community Nursing Research in 1989 and was promoted to Professor in 1993. Her special interests include developing the knowledge base for practice, need assessment by community nurses, decision making and care of the elderly. Jean has held a number of research grants in pursuing these interests and has published widely and spoken at numerous conferences. She has worked on a wide range of Research Committees both within and outside her University base and was a member of the Nursing RAE Panel in 1992 and 1996. In 2001 she set up the Caledonian Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre and was appointed Associate Dean Research in 2002, a post she held until 2004. Between 1989 and 2006 she supported 19 nurses to successful completion of their PhDs. From 2005 she resumed a predominantly research role and continues with her work in the field of community nursing. Her research interests have focused on community nursing and have included assessment practice, population need assessment, nursing skills, skill mix and evaluation of specialist community nursing services.
She is currently Vice Chair of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, Scotland Council, and a member of three Editorial Boards. Jean was awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to healthcare in Glasgow.
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