Professor Joseph C. Manning MBE
Professor of Nursing and Child Health
School/Department: Healthcare, School of
Email: joseph.manning@leicester.ac.uk
Address: School of Healthcare, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester,  Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building (Level 2), Leicester Royal Infirmary, Welford Road, Leicester.
Profile
Joseph is the Professor of Nursing and Child Health (Clinical-Academic joint appointment) at the School of Healthcare (University of Leicester) and Nottingham Children's Hospital (Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust).
He is an authentic, inclusive and strategic Clinical-Academic nursing leader with a mission to optimise the experiences, outcomes and lives the of children, young people and families through the highest quality, multi-disciplinary research, practice and education. Joseph has strong national and international profiles within the fields of nursing, paediatric critical care, and clinical academic capacity and capability development.
Joseph's research is methodologically diverse (exploratory through to intervention development and testing) but strategically aligned to critical evidence gaps and clinical priorities for nursing and child health. He currently leads research that connects to three defined programmes:
(a) harm-free acute care, that includes children and young people’s mental health, skin integrity, medication safety, and patient deterioration;
(b) facilitating health care transitions, that includes complex decision making, and family integrated care; and
(c) optimising health outcomes and survivorship, that includes outcome measurement and prioritisation, post intensive care syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-p), and participation outcomes.
Joseph uses a range of approaches including evidence synthesis, qualitative (art-based, creative methods), and mixed-methods to understand and address complex phenomena. He has extensive experience in the sensitive and inclusive application of these approaches to research with children, young people, and their families. To date, he has received more than £8 million (as Chief/Co-Investigator) in competitive grant capture from quality national and international funders including the NIHR and NIH.
Joseph is deeply committed to supervising, mentoring and coaching the inclusive development of others (students, staff, and peers) in their research, leadership, and clinical academic careers at individual, organisational, and system levels. He is an NIHR Academy mentor (profession and topic), and an invited mentor for the Florence Nightingale Foundation and Queens Nursing Institute (QNI).
In 2020, he was awarded a Chief Nursing Officer for England Gold Lifetime Award in recognition of his contribution and leadership to nursing and clinical academic careers.
In Her Majesty the Queen's 2021 Birthday Honours, Joseph was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [MBE] for Services to Nursing.