Staff profile: Professor Sally Redfern
Position: Visiting Professor
Telephone: +44 (0)1473 736 683
Email: sally.redfern@kcl.ac.uk
Biography
Sally Redfern qualified as a registered general nurse at The Middlesex Hospital, London and worked as a staff nurse and ward sister in different hospitals. She took a first degree in Behavioural Science (psychology major) at Aston University followed by a PhD in Occupational Psychology from Aston.
After a brief spell as a nursing research liaison officer she joined Chelsea College, University of London (later King’s College London) as a lecturer, then senior lecturer. She spent a year as a visiting professor in the Centre for Care Research at the University of Lund in Sweden, helping to develop research in nursing there.
She moved to the Nursing Research Unit at King’s College London in 1989 as its director and retired from that post in 2002. She is now a part-time research fellow in the Nursing Research Unit. She has researched and written in the areas of assessing quality of nursing, evaluating developments in nursing and healthcare and continuing care of older people. Her current research is concerned with evaluating practice developments and new roles in nursing, and investigating the impact of change on staff and patients.
Sally is a founding member and former assistant editor of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. She has sat on many research advisory and funding committees and is sought as a reviewer of research proposals and journal articles. She is an experienced research supervisor for PhD students and has acted as internal or external examiner for many PhD candidates. She has an extensive publication record and is co-editor, with Professor Fiona Ross, of a successful textbook, Nursing Older People, now in its fourth edition.
Interests
Evaluating practice developments and new roles in nursing, complex research evaluations, helping to expand research capacity in nursing by advising and supervising research students and colleagues.
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