Research and Development by the RCN 2013-2016

Project Steering Group

• Professor Sue Bale, Assistant Nurse Director, Aneurin Bevan Health Board and Chair, RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Helen Allbutt, Lead for Research Governance, NHS Education for Scotland and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Clair Chatterton, Staff Tutor, The Open University, Chair of the History of Nursing Society, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Dr Leslie Gelling, Senior Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Professor Ruth Norway, Professor of Learning Disability Nursing, University of Glamorgan, Chair of the RCN Research Society, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Professor Magi Sque, Professor of Clinical Practice and Innovation, University of Wolverhampton and The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Professor Annie Topping, Professor of Nursing, University of Huddersfield, steering committee member of the RCN Research Society, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Dr Alison Twycross, Reader in Children's Nursing, Kingston University and St George's University of London, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Hamish Kemp, Clinical Lead, Manchester Learning Disability Partnership (Central Manchester Foundation Trust), RCN Council Member, RCN Nursing Practice and Policy Committee, and member of the RCN Research and Development Governance Group
• Cecilia Anim, Camden NHS Provider Service, RCN Deputy President, RCN Council member, and RCN Nursing Practice and Policy Committee
• Rod Thomson FRCN, Director of Public Health, Shropshire Council and RCN Council member
• Professor Janet Marsden, Professor of Ophthalmic Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University, and RCN Forum Governance Group
• Steve Jamieson, RCN Head of Nursing Department
• Theresa Fyffe, Director, RCN Scotland
• Wendy Irwin/Maxwell Hurley, RCN Diversity and Equalities Unit
• Mark Platt, RCN Policy Unit
• Mark Sargeant, RCN Finance Department

RCN Staff facilitators

• Dr Jenny Gordon, Programme Manager, Evidence for Practice
• Dave O'Carroll, Information and Communications Manager,
• Dr Lesley Duff, L&D Manager, Quality Standards & Innovation Unit
• Dr Ann McMahon, Research and Innovation Adviser