New Interim Dean appointed

Professor Ian Norman has been appointed Interim Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, effective 8 June 2015 and continuing until the next Executive Dean is in post.

Professor Norman joined the Faculty (then the Department of Nursing Studies) in 1988 as a Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1994 and then to Professor of Mental Health in 1997.  Since 2012 Professor Norman has been the Deputy Dean of Faculty.  

Professor Norman combines teaching and research with clinical work as an honorary cognitive behavioural psychotherapist based at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, a member of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre.  Professor Norman is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nursing Studies, which is currently ranked at number three in Thomson Reuters’ impact factor list of 106 nursing journals; and has widely recognised as the most influential academic nursing journal in the world.  

Professor Norman’s research interests are concerned with the study of workforce related and education and training initiatives for improving the delivery of health and social care and the outcome of these initiatives for patients, staff and services. He has also researched the development and evaluation of psychological interventions to support people with mental health problems and is involved currently in research studies to evaluate public health interventions for the prevention of drug and alcohol misuse and dependence. 

Last year he spent two months working in the Republic of South Africa on an EU funded project investigating innovations to reduce the risk of codeine misuse and dependence and earlier this year I spent 2-months working in Ireland on the same research study. 

Professor Norman takes over from Professor Helen McCutcheon, who leaves King’s to take up a post at the University of Queensland as Head of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work. Professor McCutcheon had been Dean of the Faculty since November 2011.

View Professor Norman’s profile.