Professor Christine Webb

Christine Webb has been involved in nurse education for many years since qualifying as a registered nurse tutor in 1975. She is currently Professor of Health Studies at the University of Plymouth.

Christine’s areas of interest include women’s health, sexuality in health care, older people, and nursing methodology. She enjoys her work as Executive Editor of Journal of Advanced Nursing and likes supervising postgraduate and taught and research students.

She is proud of introducing feminist research and action research to nursing in the UK, and feels that one of the greatest achievements of her career has been trying to develop nursing scholarships via her editorships of Journal of Clinical Nursing (1996-2001) and Journal of Advanced Nursing (since 2001).

Her inspirations include Diane Kjervik, Jo Ann Ashley, Peggy Chinn and other feminist nurses, and Margarete Sandelowski.

Christine has mixed feelings about the future of nursing. She is rather concerned as she believes that many of the fundamentals of nursing are being passed over to health care assistants. Conversely, she considers that there are some excellent developments being carried forward by advanced practice nurses, including nurse consultants. But she wonders whether nurses, as we have previously understood the concept, will exist in 20 years’ time – or whether they will be replaced by multi-tasked health care providers.

She relishes some of the creative approaches being used by workers from countries such as Mainland China, Taiwan and Korea, who are just beginning to submit papers to journals. Christine would like to see more of these types of interesting randomised controlled trials evaluating nursing interventions and including physiological measures in the UK.

Christine lives in Bristol.

Publications

Christine is Executive Editor of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. Here are just a few examples of her extensive list of publications:

  • Sexuality, Nursing and Health (1985)
  • Editor of Feminist Practice in Women’s Health Care (1986)
  • Editor of Women’s Health. Midwifery and Gynaecological Nursing (1986)
  • Editor of Living Sexuality. Issues for Nursing and Health (1994)
  • Co-editor of Textbook of Adult Nursing (1992)
  • Co-author of Working Together? Interprofessional Relations in Health Care (1994)
  • Co-author of Consensus Guidelines for the Promotion and Management of Continence in the Primary Health Care Team (1998)
  • Co-author of Research and Development in Clinical Nursing Practice (1998)
  • Several chapters in books and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.