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Joanne Atkinson is Head of Department for Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing. Joanne has been in leadership roles within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences since 2010. She is an expert in palliative and end of life care, following a career in this sphere of practice and she continues to work across these disciplines at a regional, national and international level. She has a wealth of external experience in multi-professional health and social care workforce development.

Building on her doctoral studies, her research in palliative and end of life care is varied, collaborative and interdisciplinary. Specifically, her work has sought to move from the biomedical dominated model to understanding death and dying in it’s broadest social, historical and cultural contexts. Particularly, the discourses of death and dying underpin Joanne’s approach to research. Joanne is focused on building research capacity in this sector and has therefore been engaged in consultancy with national charitable organisations.

She is also a Trustee for a national cancer charity called mynewhair, leading the charity from a small-scale not-for-profit organisation into an international registered charity. Joanne is recognised as an expert in chemotherapy-induced hair loss and regularly invited to speak internationally. She is also on the ethics committee at St Cuthbert’s hospice.

 

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Education/Academic qualification

Health, PhD, Dying Through the Looking Glass… The Influence of Discursive Formations on End of Life Care, Northumbria University

… → 20 Jan 2020

Award Date: 20 Jan 2020

Education, MEd

5 Jan 199831 Dec 2099

Award Date: 5 Jan 1998

Education, PGDipEd

5 Jan 199831 Dec 2099

Award Date: 5 Jan 1998

Nursing Studies, BA (Hons)

30 Jun 199531 Dec 2099

Award Date: 30 Jun 1995

Teacher Training, CertEd

30 Jun 199131 Dec 2099

Award Date: 30 Jun 1991

CertEd

30 Jun 198631 Dec 2099

Award Date: 30 Jun 1986

External positions

mynewhair

1 Jun 2010 → …

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