Gina Higginbottom Explained

Dr Gina Higginbottom
Honorific Suffix:MBE
Birth Name:Gina Awoko
Birth Place:Sheffield, England, UK
Nationality:British
Professor
Awards:National Primary Care Fellowship

Smith & Nephew Nursing Research Scholar

Mary Seacole Leadership Award

Canada Research Chair

Fellow Queens Nursing Institute

Website:https://twitter.com/GinaAwokoH
Alma Mater:University of Sheffield
Discipline:Health
Sub Discipline:Ethnicity and Community Health
Workplaces:University of Alberta, University of Nottingham

Gina Marie Higginbottom (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]

Personal life and education

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 http://blackcountrysociety.co.uk/articles/bagley[5] She passed the eleven plus examination and attended King Ecgbert Technical Grammar School for Girls. 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

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] 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.

Honours

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prof Gina Higginbottom - Health Research Mentor. Healthresearchmonitor.org.uk. 9 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Gina Marie Awoko Higginbottom MBE – Black Female Professors Forum. Blackfemaleprofessorsforum.org. 9 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Two high profile CPHVA vice presidents appointed. unitetheunion.org. en. 2019-12-17.
  4. Web site: Community nursing union appoints new vice presidents. Ford. Megan. 2019-10-16. Nursing Times. en. 2019-12-17.
  5. Web site: Professor Gina Awoko Higginbottom MBE - Wall of BAME - Race equality - Inclusion at Sheffield - The University of Sheffield. Sheffield. University of. www.sheffield.ac.uk. en-GB. 2019-12-17.
  6. Book: Howie, John. Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000. 16 May 2011. Edinburgh University Press. 9 January 2019. Google Books. 9780748688388.
  7. Web site: Prof Gina Higginbottom MBE. admin. ICCHNR. en-US. 2019-10-30.
  8. Book: Gina Higginbottom. Pranee Liamputtong. Participatory Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health. 12 February 2019. 18 June 2015. SAGE Publications. 978-1-4739-2726-1. 13–.
  9. Web site: The challenge of migration. Folio.ca. 9 January 2019.
  10. Web site: Canada Research Chairs Program : National Announcement - Spring 2013. Chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 9 January 2019.
  11. Web site: Ethnic Diversity in UK Social Research & Public Policy Research. 17 December 2019.
  12. Web site: About Gina. en-US. 2019-10-30.
  13. Book: Gina Higginbottom. Pranee Liamputtong. Participatory Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health. 12 February 2019. 18 June 2015. SAGE Publications. 978-1-4739-2726-1. 13–.
  14. Web site: Honorary and Emeritus appointments - The University of Nottingham. www.nottingham.ac.uk. 2019-12-17.
  15. Web site: Who We Are. admin. ICCHNR. en-US. 2019-10-30.
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