news (going backwards)

December 2011: I got a book contract with Palgrave to write something called very approximately 'The Politics of Nursing in the 21st Century'. I'm trying to finish it by October 2012.

June 2011: I've got the SSNR blog going: click here and a twitter account @socscinurse

December 2010: I've just joined the RCN Research Society Steering Committee. We spent a day last week deciding which abstracts would go into the 2011 annual conference. We also ran our third Nursing Research and Social Science talk/dinners at Archway in London. See our new website http://ssnr.org.uk for more details

July 2009: The contribution of Social Sciences to nursing and health services research. Event at Middlesex University in Archway

Here's Celia Davies and Davina Allen, discussant and speaker respectively.

September 2008: I've just registered for the third In sickness and in health conference. Its in April next year in Vancouver.

Here's left to right: Sioban Nelson, Anthony Pryce and Niels Buus.

September 2008: I've just registered for the third In sickness and in health conference. Its in April next year in Vancouver.

March 2008: I'm off for ten days visiting University of Melbourne department of General Practice and nursing dept to give talks on discourse analysis and run writing for publication workshops for staff and post grads.

April 2007: still here (there) and recently sent off the team's shadow Research Assessment Exercise stuff off to our external adviser.

March 2007 Making Medicine Count Conference Cambridge on the Evidence Based Movements where I was a discussant - or something like that:
(See http://www.flickr.com/photos/obliquepanic/sets/72157600094230871/)

July 2006: missed redundancy as Middlesex Uni put all its professors under review. We had 10 days to find out whether we had jobs or not.

October/November 2006 Visit to the Chinese University of Hong Kong where there are some impressive Buddhist artefacts

May 2006 My trip to the University of Toronto to give a talk to the Faculty of Nursing:Here's me and editor of Nursing Inquiry, Sioban Nelson

November 9th (2005) was the evening I did my inaugural lecture at Middlesex.

September 2005: Our Social World conference in Cambridge on social software and business. I felt naked without a wireless card. The attenders idea of being sociable was hiding behind their laptop screens.

August 2005: Trip to Denmark for a nursing conference. Danes dancing the jig in the old railway building in Aarhus.

Gary Rolfe's talk

May 2004:

On June 1st I leave my two half jobs at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and The Health Foundation to go to Middlesex University to take up the Trevor Clay Chair of Nursing.

I will be based at the University's Archway campus.

A few weeks later I'm flying (on Iceland Express rather than a broomstick) to Iceland for a conference 'In Sickness and in Health'. I plan to put up some images and impressions from my first intrepid visit to that unusual country when I get back. I'm giving a paper based on some focus groups I ran with a colleague last year. We asked nurses about influences on their practice and inevitably talked most about 'evidence' - as well as diets and lip balm which was much more interesting. (I have changed my lip balm as a result.)

1985 nostalgia: Am four from left back row. In those days I needed constantly holding up.