University of Dundee

Faculty Member, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Other Affiliations: NSPCC, Strategy and Development

Head of Strategy and Development (Abuse in High Risk Families), seconded to NSPCC

College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing

About

Julie Taylor is Professor of Family Health in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, and is currently seconded to a UK national post as Head of Strategy and Development (Abuse in High Risk Families) with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Until March 2010 she was Research Dean and Head of Division (Research and Postgraduate Studies) and led the University’s first submission to the Nursing Unit of Assessment in RAE 2008.

Julie trained as a nurse in the 1980s at St James’ University Hospital Leeds and held a number of increasingly senior nursing posts before entering higher education in 1992 at the University of York, coming to Dundee in 1997. Funded research has been focused around optimal service delivery conditions for child care and protection practice, including ‘good enough’ parenting debates. She is the author of five books and numerous academic papers in child care and protection, most recently focused on children living with domestic abuse experience and child neglect. Julie is part of the Dept. of Health/Dept. for Children, Schools and Families ‘Safeguarding Children’ initiative, and is RCN representative on two Scottish Government Child Protection Review Groups.

Julie is a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science, Council member for the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland, on the steering committee for the Royal College of Nursing’s Research Society, a founding member of the international Child Welfare and Gender Network, and a founding member of the Scottish Child Care and Protection Network. In 2010 she was appointed to the HEFCE Research Excellence Framework for Allied Health, Dentistry, Nursing, and Pharmacy.

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