Jessica Corner
Professor Dame Jessica Lois Corner (born 22 March 1961) is a British nurse, academic, educator and author.
She graduated with a PhD from King's College London in 1990. Originally a nurse, she served as Director of the Centre of Cancer and Palliative Care Studies and Deputy Dean of Nursing at the University of London's Institute of Cancer Research (1996-2008). She is the first nurse to be appointed to a Chair at the Institute.[1]
Corner has been Dean (since 2010) of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professor (since 2008) of Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of Southampton.[2]
On 21 July 2015, it was announced that Corner has been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange at The University of Nottingham, taking up her new post on 1 January 2016.[3]
She was elected chair of the Council of Deans of Health and is a member of the Nursing and Care Quality Forum. She has written three books and written or edited dozens of papers for academic journals. She was a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's 2014 Research Excellence Framework sub-panel.[4]
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