Betty Kershaw
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Order of the British Empire
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, FRCN
Royal College of Nursing
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, CStJ
Venerable Order of Saint John
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, née Gammie (born 11 December 1943), was Professor of Nursing
Nursing
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and Dean at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
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from 1999 to 2006.
She served as Head of the Manchester College of Midwifery 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 in 1998 for services to nursing education. Her recent international consultancy work includes projects in Colombia and China on the modernization agenda for nursing. She has ongoing commitments to the Department of Health Leadership Project including advising on how the program develops black nurses for leadership positions.
She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing is a union membership organisation with over 395,000 members in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1916, receiving its Royal Charter in 1928, Queen Elizabeth II is the patron...
and one of its former presidents. She was also St John Ambulance's chief nursing and social care officer.
Personal life
She lives in ManchesterManchester
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and is married to historian Sir Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw
Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian of 20th-century Germany whose work has chiefly focused on the period of the Third Reich...
, with whom she has two sons.