Roger Watson (academic)


Roger Watson is a British academic. He is a professor of nursing at the University of Hull. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing and the editor of and is an Associate Editor of the WikiJournal of Medicine. Watson was the Founding Chair of the Lancet Commission on Nursing, and a founding member of the Global Advisory Group for the Future of Nursing.
Watson was elected Vice President of the National Conference of University Professors in 2020.

Education

Watson is a Registered Nurse, holds a BSc in biological sciences from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Sheffield.

Professional life

Watson's clinical area is gerontological nursing with a special interest in mealtime and nutritional difficulties of older people with dementia. His research into the alleviation of mealtime difficulty in people with dementia led to the development of the "Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia Scale". Watson is a proponent of the application of Mokken scaling in nursing research and has also contributed to the understanding of the general application of Mokken scaling and the influence of sample size on Mokken scaling parameters.
Watson has visiting positions in Slovenia, Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland and Italy. He served as a member of the sub-panel for Nursing and Midwifery in the UK Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, and in 2014 on the sub-panel for Dentistry, Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Pharmacy in the UK Research Excellence Framework.

Awards and recognition

Watson is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the American Academy of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery ad eundem and the National Conference of University Professors. Watson is a Member of the Academia Europaea. Watson was formerly a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Watson delivered the Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture in 2001. In 2017 Watson was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. That year, Watson also delivered the annual Elsie Stephenson Memorial Lecture at The University of Edinburgh.
Following military service as a Captain Royal Army Medical Corps in the First Gulf War with 205 Scottish General Hospital RAMC Watson was awarded the Gulf Medal, the Kuwait Liberation Medal and the Kuwait Liberation Medal.

Personal life

Born to Margaret McCabe and William Morrison Watson Watson is a former pupil of Banchory Academy. Watson is a haiku poet and a member of both the British Haiku Society and the Haiku Society of America with entries in the Living Haiku Anthology, the Living Senryu Anthology and The Haiku Foundations Haiku Registry. In 2018 and 2019, he was selected as one of the European Top 100 most creative haiku authors. He is married to Deborah Watson and they have eight children.