Jessica Corner
Professor Dame Jessica Lois Corner is a British nurse, academic, educator and author.
She graduated with a PhD from King's College London in 1990. Originally a nurse, she served as Director of the Centre of Cancer and Palliative Care Studies and Deputy Dean of Nursing at the University of London's Institute of Cancer Research. She is the first nurse to be appointed to a Chair at the Institute.
Corner has been Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professor of Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of Southampton.
On 21 July 2015, it was announced that Corner has been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange at The University of Nottingham, taking up her new post on 1 January 2016.
She was elected chair of the Council of Deans of Health and is a member of the Nursing and Care Quality Forum. She has written three books and written or edited dozens of papers for academic journals. She was a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's 2014 Research Excellence Framework sub-panel.
