Professor Susan Procter

Chair

Dr Susan Procter was first appointed as a Professor of Nursing at Northumbria University in 1995. Since then she has held professorial posts at City University, London and Buckinghamshire New University. Throughout her career she has endeavoured to bridge the gap between academia and practice holding a number of joint posts the most recent being an honorary post with Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust. She is very supportive of practice based research and of building clinical research capacity in nursing and midwifery. She has supervised several clinicians through to obtaining their doctorates. She is both pleased and honoured to be a trustee for the GNCT helping to shape the Trust to support the building clinical nursing research capacity and develop of excellence in clinical nursing research in England and Wales.

Professor Annie Topping

Professor Annie Topping is a nurse, health service researcher and educator. Annie has had a long and varied career clinically in surgical and cancer nursing, in higher education (Universities of Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield and South Bank), and overseas in the State of Qatar.  She currently holds a joint appointment with the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and leads on nurse research capacity and capability building. Her own research is concerned with improving patient experience, outcomes and care delivery.

Dr Lynne Wigens OBE

Dr Lynne Wigens OBE
Lynne is a registrant member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, a Trustee with the Royal Osteoporosis Society, and a Non-Executive Director for AHP Suffolk. She is also a Visiting Professor of Nursing at the University of Suffolk, and Honorary Professor of Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia. .
Lynne Wigens was the East of England Region Chief Nurse from and prior to this held Director of nursing roles within acute, community and commissioning organisations. She is a Florence Nightingale Scholar, studying the nursing contribution to integrated care in Canterbury, New Zealand and Norrtälje, Sweden. Her career within healthcare has included clinical working within medicine, surgery and intensive care setting, healthcare education, and senior management roles. Lynne completed her PhD with the University of East Anglia in 2004.
A key motivator throughout her career has been the desire to ensure that clinical practitioners are supported effectively allowing them to strive to deliver excellence in patient care. Lynne researches and publishes in the field of workforce development, integrated care, lay caring, change strategies, clinical supervision, expert and multidisciplinary care, human resource management and recruitment.

Professor Daniel Kelly OBE PhD RN FRCN

Professor Daniel Kelly has held the Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research at Cardiff University since 2011. His career-long interest has been in cancer care research and education. Current research interests include cancer prevention, especially the potential of greater awareness of HPV vaccination and screening to protect people from cancer. Formerly President of the European Oncology Nursing Society, he has co-chaired the European Cancer Organisation’s HPV Action Network since 2019, and is also a former Board member of European Cancer Organisation.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom and was awarded the OBE from Queen Elizabeth in the 2021 new year honour’s list for his national and international contribution to research and education in cancer care. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University, University College London & Oxford Brookes University. He is also a Trustee at St Christopher’s Hospice London and a Public Governor at Kings College London NHS Foundation Trust.

Mel Nakisa

Secretary

Mel Nakisa is an experienced research administrator. Previous roles have included supporting nursing research at Buckinghamshire New University. Prior to that, as Research Project Manager at the Royal National Institute for Deaf people, Mel set up and managed their research funding programme.