Professor Julie Green is an experienced nurse and educationalist with more than 37 years of experience. She trained at North Staffordshire College of Nursing and qualified as a registered nurse in 1990. Following several years working in the intensive care and high dependency units at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, in 1995, she trained to become a district nurse and undertook her BSc(Hons) community nursing degree. For the next eight years, Professor Green was the caseload holder for a busy, inner city district nursing team. She is passionate about the impact of caring for patients at home, from promoting health to supporting a good death. She moved to a career in education, initially as a clinical skills lecturer, at Keele University in 2003 and has celebrated more than 20 years working there. Later this year, she is taking up the position of head of the School of Health Sciences at Bangor University.

Professor Green is renowned, nationally and internationally, for her work on the centrality of the patient’s voice in their healthcare experience, especially in wound care, and the importance of care delivery in the community. She was awarded the Queen’s Nurse title in 2013 for her contribution to this area of nursing; she is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a previous chair of the RCN district and community nursing forum. She served as an elected member of the RCN professional nursing committee, she is a deputy chief nurse for the Birmingham Diocese nursing team and a member of the Association of District Nurse Educators. In 2021, she was awarded fellowship of the RCN and the Queen’s Nursing Institute. Professor Green is involved in the development of national policy that contributes to the district nursing agenda, the nurse education agenda, and healthcare more widely. She is the current RCN Council member for the West Midlands region.

She has held several senior education roles, including dean of education for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and head of school for the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is honoured to lead such a dynamic team of academics and is passionate about supporting the development of our future healthcare professionals by providing exciting, robust and innovative curricula. She is an enthusiastic practitioner, who is equally at home delivering clinical care as she is undertaking teaching sessions for our students.