Jan Dewing (born c. 1961 – died 2022) was a British nurse who was the Sue Pembrey Professor of Nursing at

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. She was the first nursing

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at the university and she led their Person-centred Practice Research and it's graduate research school.

Life

Dewing was born in

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. Her parents were Joan (born Burnside) and John Dewing. Her mother was a tailor and her father was an engineering fitter. She qualified as a nurse locally in 1982 and ten years later she graduated from the Open University. In the following year the University of Wales awarded Dewing her first master's degree in nursing. She was already a professor at

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when

appointed her to the named chair as the

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Professor of Nursing in 2015. This was the university's first named chair of nursing. Dewing and Kate Sanders founded the peer-reviewed academic ''International Practice Development Journal'' which she edited from 2011 to 2019. From 2020, she was also the chief editor of the journal ''Nursing Philosophy'' which was later edited by Miriam Bender. Her own research included looking at the challenging problem of gaining consent from people to take part in academic research when they have increasing levels of dementia. She was very interested in

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and she challenged ideas that were being accepted with little underpinning argument. These criticisms included some definitions of Person-Centred therapy and the idea that Karl Rogers had been the first to work in that area. She led the Person-centred Practice Research Centre and the Graduate School at Queen Margaret University from 2015. Dewing died from cancer in 2022.

Publications include

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dewing, Jan 1900s births 2022 deaths People from Gateshead British nurses British women academics Academics of Canterbury Christ Church University Academics of Queen Margaret University