Kingston University professor Fiona Ross awarded CBE in New Year's Honours list for contribution to healthcare and higher education

Posted Wednesday 7 January 2015

Professor Fiona RossProfessor Fiona Ross, the former dean of the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, run jointly by Kingston University and St George's, University of London, has been recognised in the 2015 New Year Honours list with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her work in health and social care and higher education.

Professor Ross says: "I am amazed, delighted and honoured to receive a CBE. I have been privileged to work at Kingston and St George's universities where, perhaps because of its unique partnership, there has always been a pioneering spirit as well as a desire to be the best. It has been great to work with colleagues across the University, who I have learned from and who have supported me to improve education, build evidence and advance our understanding of professional practice in health and social care."

Professor Ross studied at Edinburgh University and obtained a PhD at King's College London. She was appointed to St George's Hospital Medical School's first chair in nursing (primary care) in 1996 through its partnership with Kingston University and was involved in setting up the joint faculty. In 2002 she went to King's College London as director of a Department of Health-funded research programme and then returned to Kingston and St George's as dean of the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education - a post she held for eight years. Under her leadership the faculty expanded, flourished and advanced interprofessional approaches to applied research. It is now recognised as one of the foremost places to train as a nurse, midwife, allied health professional, social worker or teacher.

Professor Ross took up a new appointment as Director of Research at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in summer 2014. She continues to work for Kingston and St George's as a research professor on NIHR studies and is chair of Kingston University's equality committee. She also has a part-time secondment to the Health Innovation Network (the South London Academic Health Sciences Network) as a senior responsible officer for education and training.

Her research interests include improving the quality of care of older people notably in primary care settings, in outcomes of teamwork in stroke care and shifting professional boundaries towards collaborative practice. She served for eight years on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Commissioning Board for Health Services and Delivery Research, is a fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Sciences, the elected president of the International Collaboration of Community Health Nursing Research, fellow of the Queen's Nursing Institute, a trustee of Princess Alice Hospice and board adviser to Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Trust.

• Find out more about the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Kingston University and St George's, University of London.

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