Dame Janet Elizabeth Murray Kershaw (''née'' Gammie; born 11 December 1943) is an English nurse who served as professor of

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and dean at the School of Nursing and Midwifery,

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from 1999 to 2006. She served as Head of the Manchester College of Midwifery and Nursing and the Director of Nursing Education at the Stockport, Tameside and Glossop College of Nursing. Kershaw received an honorary doctorate from Manchester University in 1995 in recognition of her contribution to nursing education. Professor Kershaw was created

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

in 1998 for services to nursing and nursing education. Her international consultancy work for the Dept of Health included projects in Colombia and China on the modernization agenda for nursing, in Malta on the development of an EU curriculum of nursing, in Poland on Nursing Accession to the European community and for the commonwealth Office on Managed Migration.Other commitments to the Department of Health included their Leadership Project advising on how the program developed ethnic minority nurses for leadership positions. She was President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1994 to 1998, was made a Fellow of the

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in 2001 and was once employed as their education adviser. She was also

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's chief nursing and social care officer.''The Guardian'' report on Betty Kershaw
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Personal life

Kershaw lives in

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and is married to historian Sir

Ian Kershaw Sir Ian Kershaw (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is pa ...

, with whom she has two sons.

References

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