Speaker Profiles
Conference Keynote Presenters
Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at
Oxford University. His books include Vera Brittain: A Life shortlisted for the Whitbread
Prize, the NCR Book Award and the Fawcett Prize, Letters from a Lost Generation, and Lives
For Sale. In 2008 he published Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, which was
awarded the 2009 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and named as a Wall
Street Journal Best Book of 2008.
Mark will be giving his keynote talk "A Florence Nightingale for the Twenty-First Century" at 1.30pm on Tuesday, 14th September.
Dr. Afaf I. Meleis is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean
of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Professor of Nursing and
Sociology, and Director of the School's WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery
Leadership.
Dr. Meleis' research scholarship is focused on the structure and organization of nursing knowledge, transitions and health, and international nursing as well as global health, immigrant and women’s health and the theoretical development of the nursing discipline. She is the author of more than 150 articles in social sciences, nursing, and medical journals; 40 chapters; 7 books; and numerous monographs and proceedings.
Dr. Meleis is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, as well as honorary doctorates and distinguished and honorary professorships around the world.
Dr Afaf will be giving her keynote talk "Importance of an International perspective and international collaboration in both history and policy" at 9.00am on Thursday, 16th September.
Plenary and Roundtable Speakers
Anne Marie Rafferty CBE, RN, D.Phil (Oxon) is Head of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Anne Marie holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh (B.Sc Social Science, Nottingham (MPhil Surgery) and Oxford (D.Phil Modern History). Her research interests include workforce, policy and history.
She won a Harkness Fellowship to work with Dr Linda Aiken at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and is currently collaborating as the UK Principal Investigator on a major international study of workforce planning, nurse and patient outcomes funded by EUFP7. She was seconded to the Department of Health to work on the nursing contribution to the Next Stage Review of the NHS in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Queen’s Nursing Institute. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery.
Barbra Mann Wall is a nurse historian who is widely
known for her studies on women and health care institutions. She received her BSN at the
University of Texas, her MS in Nursing from Texas Woman's University, and her PhD in
history from the University of Notre Dame. She has received funding from the National
Institutes of Health; private foundations; the American Association for the History of
Nursing; and academic institutions such as the University of Notre Dame, University of
Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, and Purdue University.
Her work on Catholic sisters as nurses and founders of the American Catholic hospital system earned the Lavinia Dock award from the American Association for the History of Nursing for her book, Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925. Her second book, American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Change in Markets and Missions, will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2011. Dr. Wall currently is Book Review Editor for Nursing History Review, and she is an Associate Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.
Carol Helmstadter is a retired neurosurgical
nurse. She has degrees in both nursing and history and is skilled in labour relations,
having worked seven years as Government Relations Officer for Ontario Nurses Association.
She is a past president of the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing and was
named a Centennial Nurse by the Canadian Nurses Association for her contributions to
nursing history.
She has published articles on both clinical nursing and nineteenth century nursing in England in journals in Canada, the United States, Australia and the UK. She is currently working together with Judith Godden on a book on pre-Nightingale nursing reforms.
Judith Godden is a professional historian and
Honorary Associate at the Department of History, University of Sydney.She was previously a
senior lecturer at the School of Public Health, and the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery,
at The University of Sydney. She was awarded a C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship from the
State Library of NSW to write Lucy Osburn, a lady displaced. Florence Nightingale’s envoy
to Australia (Sydney University Press, 2006), which was short-listed for Australia’s 2008
National Biography Award.
She has published widely in women’s and nursing history and is currently completing two books: one on pre-Nightingale nursing reform with Carol Helmstadter; and a biography of twentieth century Australian nurse Gwen Burbidge, to be published by The College of Nursing (NSW).
Jan Maw MPhil., MMedSc., PGDHypPsyc., PGCE., SCPHN (OHN)., RNT., RN. Jan is the RCN Public Health Nurse Advisor and is also a lecturer in Occupational Health at the University of Sheffield, and as was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Occupational Health at the University of Birmingham.
She worked as a senior Occupational Health Nurse in the Health Service before taking up her first academic post in 1991. Her research interests are that of women at work, shift work, organisational psychology and mental health promotion. Alongside the development and delivery of the MMedSc Occupational Health Nursing degree, she is also involved in the development and delivery of programmes in Environmental Risk Management; Patient Safety; Workplace Mental Health Promotion; and Occupational Health Technicians in Practice.
She has held national posts in Occupational Health Nursing as an Education Officer with the English National Board and as Professional Nurse Advisor at the Royal College of Nursing. Her new role as RCN Public Health Advisor takes in the areas of Health Promotion, Health Protection and Service Development.
Rima D. Apple, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published extensively in women’s history, the history of medicine and nursing, and the history of nutrition. Among her books are Perfect motherhood: Science and childrearing in America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Vitamania: Vitamins in American culture (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996) which received the Kremers Award, 1998, from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. She is currently studying the history of rural public health nursing.
Sandra B. Lewenson, EdD, RN, FAAN is a professor of nursing at the Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University in New York City. She teaches courses on decision-making, nursing education, nursing history, and public health nursing. Dr. Lewenson has received several awards throughout her career including the Outstanding Scholarship and Research Award from Teachers College, Columbia University, induction into the Hunter College Hall of Fame, and Pace University’s Keenan Award for Teaching Excellence.
Her book, Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920, received the American Association for the History of Nursing Lavinia Dock Award for Historical Scholarship and Research in Nursing. She also received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards for Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research and Decision-Making in Nursing: Thoughtful Approaches for Practice. Dr. Lewenson is a member of the American Academy of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society. Her latest work titled, Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care was recently published.
Workshop Leaders
Sue Hawkins has a PhD in history of nursing gained at Kingston University in 2007, which focussed on nursing in London hospitals in the Victorian period. She is a lecturer in history at Kingston, where she has been working for last 4 years on the Wellcome-funded Historic Hospital Admission Records Project (www.hharp.org), which has created databases of 19th century admissions to children’s hospitals. Her interests are in Victorian social history, particularly the role of women in Victorian society, history of health and healthcare, and the development of paediatrics. She is also interested in the application of information technology in the practice of historical research.
Her book, Nursing and Women’s Labour in the 19th Century: the quest for independence was published by Routledge in March 2010.
Graham Smith is Chair of the Oral History Society and a senior lecturer in oral history in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. As well as teaching oral history to undergraduates and postgraduates, he is an oral history trainer for the Oral History Society, providing training for community organisations . He has researched in the history of medicine; mainly the history of general practice, and has published in both history and medical journals.
