Programme

Daily Debates

Debate 1: This house believes that governments should ring fence dedicated funding streams for nursing research

Debate chair: Dr Peter Carter OBE, General Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing, UK

Debate speakers:

Professor Hugh McKenna CBE, Dean of Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster
Professor Julie Taylor, Research Dean and Professor of Family Health, University of Dundee
Professor Davina Porock, Professor of Nursing Practice, University of Nottingham
Professor Donna Mead OBE, Dean of Faculty of Health, Sport and Science

Debate 2: This house believes that economic impact is a valid way of measuring nursing research

Debate chair: Professor Joyce Kenkre, Professor of Primary Care, University of Glamorgan

Debate speakers:

Professor Christine Norton, Professor of Clinical Nursing Innovation, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Bucks New University
Professor Kate Gerrish, Professor of Nursing, Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Dawn Freshwater, Dean of School of Healthcare, University of Leeds
Professor Fiona Ross, Dean and Professor of Primary Care Nursing, Kingston University and St George's, University of London

Debate 3: To research or not to research? This house believes that undergraduate nurses should not undertake empirical research

Debate chair: Dr David Foster, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, London and Visiting Professor at Buckinghamshire New University

Debate speakers:

Professor Andrea Nelson, Professor of Wound Healing
Professor Annie Topping, Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Huddersfield
Professor Roger Watson, Professor of Nursing, University of Sheffield
Professor Martin Johnson, Professor in Nursing, University of Salford