Professor Rosamund Mary Bryar
Rosamund Bryar has been involved in service development, education, research and research capacity building in health visiting and primary health care since the mid 1980’s. She is a graduate of the nursing degree programme at the University of Manchester and has held health visiting and academic posts in London, Wales and Hull. At City University London she is Professor of Community and Primary Care Nursing and contributes to the return to health visiting practice and SCPHN programmes. She is currently involved in a project funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing in Tower Hamlets concerned with developing the evidence base for health visiting practice in that borough. Her PhD is concerned with how we develop research capacity amongst primary health care practitioners. Prior to working at City she held the clinical academic chair in Community Healthcare Nursing Practice at The University of Hull and was professional lead for health visiting in Hull and Holderness Community Trust.
She was appointed as a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 2005. Her initial research experience was in midwifery and the 2nd edition of Theory for Midwifery Practice co-edited with Professor Marlene Sinclair was published in 2011. She is co-editor, with Professor Sally Kendall, of the journal Primary Health Care Research and Developmentand with Sally co-chair of the charity International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research. She is co-author with Jean Orr of the Community chapter in the new edition of the health visiting text book: Luker K, Orr J and McHugh GA (Eds) 2012 Health Visiting: A Rediscovery. 3rd edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford