Karen Luker#
| Membership Number: | 4981 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2437-2904 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1st Sept 2015 Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI)Professor of Community Nursing, University of Manchester
- 1st Dec 1999 - 31st August 2015 Head of School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester
- 1st Sept 1997 - 31st Nov 1999 Professor of Nursing, University of Manchester
- 1992 - 1997 Head of School of Health Sciences University of Liverpool
- 1989 - 1997 William Rathbone V1 Professor of Community Nursing, University of Liverpool
- 1988 - 1989 Senior Lecturer in Nursing, University of Manchester
- 1980 - 1988 Lecturer in Nursing, University of Manchester
- Sept 1984 -Sept1985 Professor of Care Research, University of Lund, Sweden (study leave)
- 1977 - 1980 Research Training Fellow, Scottish Home and Health Research Training Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- 1972 - 1977 Health Visitor, Manchester Area Health Authority
- 1995 - 1996 Staff Nurse, Withington Hospital Manchester
- 2017 - 2018 Visiting International Professor Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto
- 2018 - 2019 Visiting Professor School of Nursing University of Hong Kong
Fields of Scholarship
- Primary care
- Cancer follow-up
- Carer
- Palliative care
- Self care
- Home care
- Cancer & work
- Community nursing
- End of life
Honours and Awards
- 2017 - 2018 Frances Bloomberg Distinguished International Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing.
- 2017 - 2019 Member of Swedish Research Council Medical and Health Research Evaluation Panel
- 2016 Queen's New Year honours List; Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Nursing and Health Services Research
- 2015 Catedra Professor Carlos Lloyd Braga (Honorary Chair), University of Minho, Portugal
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Science, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lund, Sweden
- 2003 Elected Fellow of The Queen's Nursing Institute
- 2000 Elected Fellow of European Academy of Nursing Science
- 1998 Elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences
