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Revision as of 20:01, 7 May 2023
Ruth Northway | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 |
| Occupation(s) | Nurse and nursing academic |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2016) Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2021) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol |
| Thesis | Oppression in the lives of people with learning difficulties: a participatory study (1998) |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | Learning disability nursing |
| Institutions | University of South Wales University of Wales College of Medicine |
Ruth Northway OBE FRCN FLSW (born 1961) is a British nurse and nursing academic specializing in learning disabilities and Professor of Learning Disability Nursing at the University of South Wales.
Biography
Northway, who is from Llantrisant (a town in the Welsh county of Mid Glamorgan),[1] was born in 1961[2] and educated at Teignmouth Grammar School.[3] She decided to become a nurse because she "enjoyed working with people with learning disabilities and this was the best way that [she] could do it,"[4] and subsequently spent some time as a learning disability nurse.[2] In 1989, she started going into nurse education.[2] In 1994, she obtained a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Wales, Newport and started working at the University of Wales College of Medicine as a lecturer.[3] In 1998, she obtained her PhD from the University of Bristol, with her thesis "Oppression in the lives of people with learning difficulties: a participatory study."[5][6]
In 1999, Northway moved from the UWCM's School of Nursing to the University of Glamorgan, which would later merge into the University of South Wales in 2013.[2] As part of the USW academic staff, she became the United Kingdom's first Professor of Learning Disability Nursing,[4] and in 2002, became the leader of the university's Unit for Development in Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities.[7]
As an academic, Northway specializes in learning disabilities, participatory action research, and safeguarding.[2][8][1] Her academic accomplishments in learning disability nursing include developing Internet forums and teaching higher education classes in the field.[1] In 2013, she and Robert Jenkins published Safeguarding Adults in Nursing Practice.[2] Northway has also held a Visiting Professorship at Ulster University's School of Nursing.[8]
Northway is a member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Intellectual Disabilities,[9] and was previously the journal's editor-in-chief from 2013 to 2019.[5] From 2003 to 2007, she was the editor of Learning Disability Practice.[8] In 2011, she became the chair of the RCN Research Society.[2]
Northway has also led the Learning Disability Ministerial Advisory Group within the Welsh Government.[1] She was a trustee of Tenovus Cancer Care from 2011 to 2015.[3]
Northway was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2003 - becoming the second one to have been a learning disability nurse - "for her outstanding contributions to research in the field of learning disability nursing".[4][2] She became a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015.[10][3] Northway was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours "[f]or services to Learning Disability Nursing".[11] Northway won Nursing Times' 2018 Chief Nursing Officers' Award for Lifetime Achievement.[12] Northway was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2021.[13]
References
- ^ a b c d Flynn, Jessica (13 June 2016). "Professor's work highlighted as she receives an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours". WalesOnline. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Northway; Ruth (1961-fl 2022); nurse professor". Royal College of Nursing. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d Northway, Ruth. "Ruth Northway". LinkedIn. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ a b c "Professor Ruth Northway - nurse, researcher, advocate, campaigner". University of South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Ruth Northway". University of South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ Northway, Ruth (6 May 1998). "Oppression in the lives of people with learning difficulties : a participatory study". Retrieved 5 May 2023 – via ethos.bl.uk.
- ^ "Ruth Northway". The Conversation. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ a b c Fothergill, Anne; Mitchell, Brian; Lipp, Allyson; Northway, Ruth (2013). "Setting up a mental health service user research group: a process paper". Journal of Research in Nursing. 18 (8): 746–759. doi:10.1177/1744987112451579. ISSN 1744-9871. Retrieved 6 May 2023 – via DOI.org (Crossref).
- ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. SAGE Journals. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "OBE honour for USW nursing professor". University of South Wales. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B14.
- ^ "Congratulations to our 2018 NT Awards winners". Nursing Times. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Ruth Northway". Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2023.