Mary Watkins, Baroness Watkins of Tavistock
The Baroness Watkins of Tavistock | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
| as a life peer 2 November 2015 – present | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mary Jane Watkins 5 March 1955 |
| Political party | Crossbench |
Mary Jane Watkins, Baroness Watkins of Tavistock, FRCN (born 5 March 1955), is a British Professor of Nursing. She currently is emeritus professor of healthcare leadership at Plymouth University and Deputy Vice Chancellor of the university.
Career[edit]
She trained at the Wolfson School of Nursing, Westminster Hospital (RGN, 1976), and at South London and Maudsley Nursing School (RMN, 1979).[1] She was awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholarship, and obtained her PhD from King's College London in 1985.
Peerage and honours[edit]
She was nominated for life peerage by the House of Lords Appointments Commission, and was created Baroness Watkins of Tavistock, of Buckland Monachorum in the County of Devon, on 2 November 2015.[2] She sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
In 2019 she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.[3] She served as co-chair of the 2020 World Health Organization's review of the State of the World Nursing, as co-chair of the Burdett Trust's Nursing Now initiative, and for seven years was President of the Florence Nightingale Foundation.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Watkins of Tavistock", Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017.
- ^ "No. 61400". The London Gazette. 5 November 2015. p. 21710.
- ^ RCN Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship Roll of Honour 2019 RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows
- ^ "Baroness Watkins steps down as nursing charity president". Nursing Times. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
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