Journal of Nursing & Care

Kate Gerrish

Biography

As Professor of Nursing Research,Kate Gerrish hold a joint appointment with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where she  has responsibility for leading the strategic development of nursing research and evidence-based practice initiatives. She  also hold the position of Adjunct Professor in Transcultural Nursing at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden.During a professional career spanning 30 years, she has held a variety of clinical nursing posts in both community and hospital settings in the UK and Zambia and gained experience teaching in under-graduate and graduate nurse education in several UK universities. She has contributed to research grants and awards totalling £23.7 million. She is  currently the Implementation Lead for the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Allied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for South Yorkshire, a five year programme of applied research and implementation of research findings in the self-management of long-term conditions. She has published widely in her field and co-edited the 6th edition of The Research Process in Nursing, a major research text for nurses in the UK.

Research Interest

knowledge translation, nursing development , transcultural nursing,Cultural competence and qualitative research methodologies.