International Women's Day 2019

Today, Friday 8 March 2019, is International Women’s Day. The theme this year is #BalanceforBetter, and we’ll be sharing how #WomenOfKings in the Faculty embody this.

Professor Jackie Sturt

Jackie Sturt, Professor of Behavioural Medicine in Nursing in the Faculty has been working to improve the lives of women with Type 2 Diabetes, with the Women’s Wellness Type 2 Diabetes Program. 

Tosan Okubule

Tosan Okubule is the Lead Practice Development Nurse for King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Pre-Registration Nursing Team, and the Course Lead for our Work-Based Learning module Anaesthetic Nursing Course. She explains her passion for professional development and how’s she’s moved into this area in her career. 

Professor Anne Marie Rafferty 

Professor of Nursing Policy Anne Marie Rafferty recently spoke at London Fashion Week at the Edeline Less Autumn Winter 2019 Presentation. Watch a clip of her speech here, and read more about her speech on the part uniforms play in fashioning the image of nurses and women. 

Tomorrow the Department of Midwifery will be supporting Oxytocin: Mothering the World, a Procreate Project in collaboration with Birth Rites Collection, which is hosted by the Faculty. The one day event features a rich programme of performances and live art with discussion panels and workshops. 

The Faculty is Athena Swan accredited with two silver awards (Nursing & Midwifery 2014) (Palliative Care 2016). Find out more about the Faculty’s commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion and working to Athena SWAN standards and guidance.

2018 saw the Centenary of Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement. Cicely Saunders developed the concept that end-of-life environments should pay attention to people’s social, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs. Read more about Cicely.

 You can also read last year’s International Women’s Day article about Florence Nightingale.