Barbara Davies is Director of Education and Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and regularly reviews applications. Barbara is an Adult Registered Nurse who then qualified as a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse. Within clinical practice she has 20 years’ experience of working with children, young people and their families in a variety of roles, her final post was as a Paediatric Rheumatology Nurse Specialist / Clinical Co-ordinator setting up the regional rheumatology service for children and young people. Moving into academia Barbara is involved in both teaching and research. Following collaborative research with the Great North Children’s Hospital and Newcastle University to explore the needs of nurses working with children with inflammatory arthritis pmm.nursing, an on line, free, educational resource, was launched November 2017. Barbara has presented the research findings at national and international conferences and it was at a conference in Denmark that she became acquainted with the concept of Family Nursing and is now a member of the Executive Board of the UK / Ireland Chapter of family Nursing.