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Gina Higginbottom

Gina Marie Higginbottom MBE (née Awoko) is a British academic, nurse, midwife, health visitor and a specialist in international migration and maternity. She is the first nurse of black and minority ethnic (BME) origin to hold a professorial role in a Russell Group university in England.[1][2][3][4]

Dr Gina Higginbottom
MBE
Born
Gina Awoko

Sheffield, England, UK
NationalityBritish
TitleProfessor
AwardsNational Primary Care Fellowship

Smith & Nephew Nursing Research Scholar

Mary Seacole Leadership Award

Canada Research Chair

Fellow Queens Nursing Institute
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
Academic work
DisciplineHealth
Sub-disciplineEthnicity and Community Health
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta, University of Nottingham
Websitehttps://twitter.com/GinaAwokoH

Personal life and education edit

Higginbottom was born in Sheffield and is of white British and Ghanaian origin (Ga-Mashie, Jamestown, Accra. She is via her maternal family a descendant of the historic Bagley family. Edward Bagley of Dudley, executed the will of Lady Barnham, granddaughter of William Shakespeare [1][5] She passed the eleven plus examination and attended King Ecgbert Technical Grammar School for Girls.[5] Her cousin is Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire and her brother in Law Martin Fry of ABC. She gained her PhD co-supervised by Prof James Nazroo at the University of Sheffield in 2004.[6] Higginbottom was the first BME nurse to be awarded a National Primary Care Fellowship.[7]

Career edit

From 2007 to 2015 Higginbottom held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Ethnicity and Health at the University of Alberta.[8][9][10][11] She is the first woman of BME origin to hold a Canada Research Chair.[12]

Higginbottom was appointed in 2015 as the Mary Seacole Professor of Ethnicity and Community Health at the University of Nottingham.[13] As of 2019, she is now Emeritus Professor.[14][5] She was ethnicity and health advisor, co-author of the critical research study on the Apgar score and other neonatal tests and infants with darker skin which challenged existing approaches to neonatal assessment.

She is Co-Convener of International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research (ICCHNR), a charity and professional organisation.[15] She is also a member of the Chief Nurse for England's Black Minority Ethnic Advisory Group.[12] In 2019 she became a vice-president of the Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA), a professional organisation and trade union for nurses, together with Sara Rowbotham.[3][4]

Honours edit

Higginbottom was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 1998 for services to health promotion and young people.[16]

Selected works edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Prof Gina Higginbottom - Health Research Mentor". Healthresearchmonitor.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Gina Marie Awoko Higginbottom MBE – Black Female Professors Forum". Blackfemaleprofessorsforum.org. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Two high profile CPHVA vice presidents appointed". unitetheunion.org. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b Ford, Megan (16 October 2019). "Community nursing union appoints new vice presidents". Nursing Times. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Sheffield, University of. "Professor Gina Awoko Higginbottom MBE - Wall of BAME - Race equality - Inclusion at Sheffield - The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  6. ^ Howie, John (16 May 2011). Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748688388. Retrieved 9 January 2019 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ admin. "Prof Gina Higginbottom MBE". ICCHNR. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  8. ^ Gina Higginbottom; Pranee Liamputtong (18 June 2015). Participatory Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health. SAGE Publications. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-4739-2726-1. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  9. ^ "The challenge of migration". Folio.ca. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Canada Research Chairs Program : National Announcement - Spring 2013" (PDF). Chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Ethnic Diversity in UK Social Research & Public Policy Research". Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  12. ^ a b "About Gina". Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  13. ^ Gina Higginbottom; Pranee Liamputtong (18 June 2015). Participatory Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health. SAGE Publications. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-4739-2726-1. Retrieved 12 February 2019. [verification needed]
  14. ^ "Honorary and Emeritus appointments - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  15. ^ admin. "Who We Are". ICCHNR. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  16. ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 55155". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1998. pp. 1–27.
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