Josephine (Tonks) Fawcett has been made a Personal Chair in Student Learning (Nurse Education).
She has an MSc in Nursing Education from the University of Edinburgh.
Her clinical practice has ranged from surgical nursing to the hospital/community interface of a General Practitioner Unit.
Following a period of research in the Department of Psychology she continued her nursing, later entering nursing education.
She joined Nursing Studies in the 1980s as a clinical tutor, before becoming a lecturer and then a senior lecturer.
Ms Fawcett has enthusiastically maintained a strong clinically based teaching and learning focus throughout her academic career.
Research interests relate to clinical skills, clinical decision-making, cancer care and issues in pain management.
She is co-editor of three editions of the influential textbook 'Nursing Practice: Hospital and Home - The Adult'.
She is also co-author of Altschul's 'Psychology for Nurses' and co-editor of 'Perspectives on Cancer Care'.
Her aim is to equip nursing students with the critical and compassionate ability to understand, work and lead in 21st century systems of health and nursing care provision.