Uduak Emmanuel Archibong FRCN is a Professor of Diversity and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the

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. She is a Fellow of the

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and a Fellow of the West African College of Nursing.

Early life and education

Archibong was born and raised in rural

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. Here she trained in nursing and achieved first class honours at the

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. She moved to

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, where she earned a doctoral degree researching family-centred care and nurse's education in

. She retrained as a nurse in the British system, and started practising in

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hospitals. She worked in the

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and the Queensgate Care Home. Archibong recognised the underrepresentation of black and minority ethnic women and men in British healthcare, and that healthcare professionals of colour often experienced racism from their patients and colleagues.

Research and career

In 1995 Archibong moved to the

, where she worked as a lecturer in

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. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer then Head of Nursing in 1999. She was made Fellow of the West African College of Nursing in 2001 and Professor of Diversity in 2004. Archibong serves as the university strategic adviser for equality and diversity. She demonstrated that black and minority ethnic clinicians in the

were more likely to be involved with disciplinary action than their white colleagues who had similar track records and behaviour. She was appointed Professor of Diversity and Director of the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the

, where she led the Genovate network.

Awards and honours

She was appointed Fellow of the

in 2012. In 2015 she was made an

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for her services to higher education and equality. She was named as one of the Northern Power Women in 2019 and one of

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's Inspirational Women in 2020. She was featured in the exhibition ''Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors'' alongside her University of Bradford colleague Engobo Emeseh.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Archibong, Uduak Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Nigerian women educators Nigerian Members of the Order of the British Empire Academics of the University of Bradford University of Nigeria alumni Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing British nurses