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Dawn Freshwater

Dawn Freshwater FRCN is a British academic, university professor, mental health researcher, and the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland.[1]

Early life and education

Freshwater was born in a mining family in Nottingham, with two younger brothers. She left school at the age of 15 because her parents became unwell. Freshwater trained as a nurse and was the first member of her family to attend university.[2] Her doctoral research investigated the impact of transformative learning on nursing students for which she awarded a PhD by the University of Nottingham in 1998.[3][4]

Research and career

In 2006 Freshwater joined the University of Leeds.[5] Her research concentrated on forensic psychology, and studied the impact of marginalised groups with severe mental health issues.[6]

Freshwater was appointed the Pro-Vice Chancellor (PVC) at the University of Leeds in 2011.[5] She led the School of Medicine application for an Athena SWAN award and served a member of the assessment panel for the Research Excellence Framework (REF).[4] During this time, she served on the Council of Deans for Nursing and Midwifery and was a trustee of the Florence Nightingale Foundation.[7]

In 2014 Freshwater moved to Australia.[2] Freshwater joined the University of Western Australia as Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor in 2016.[8] In 2017 she was made the Vice Chancellor, and led the first Inclusion and Division strategy.[9] She was the first woman to be made Chair of the Group of Eight in 2018.[2] She also led the Matariki network of universities. At the University of Western Australia Freshwater established the Public Policy Institute, which translates research into real-world solutions for the Indo-Pacific region.[10]

In 2019 Freshwater became the first woman to be appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Auckland whilst remaining a professor of mental health at the University of Leeds.[11] During her appointment at the University of Auckland, there has been substantial increase of the QS ranking in the overall university category and in the new sustainability category.[12][13][14][15] Further, in 2024, the University of Auckland reached the highest ranking since 2013 in the QS ranking being the 65th in the world.[16] She has been invited as a keynote speaker in several international ranking event hosted by the Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).[17][18][19]

Publications

Freshwater has authored and co-authored over 100 peer reviewed papers[20] and she is among the top 2% cited scientists according to the 2023 Stanford/Elsevier ranking.[21] Some of her selected works are:

Awards and honours

In 2001 Freshwater was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN).[4]

Personal life

Freshwater is a marathon runner and has completed the London Marathon seven times.[10][28]

References

  1. ^ "Our Vice-Chancellor - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Australia's key university body appoints first female Chair: Dawn Freshwater". womensagenda.com.au. Women's Agenda. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  3. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (1998). Transformatory learning in nurse education. nottingham.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 556607870. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.299560. Free access icon
  4. ^ a b c "UWA announces new Vice-Chancellor". news.uwa.edu.au. University Of Western Australia. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b Garner, Louise. "Pro-Vice Chancellor Dawn Freshwater". leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Prof Dawn Freshwater". Forrest Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  7. ^ Anyangwe, Eliza (21 March 2012). "Live chat: what sort of leaders does higher education need?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Dawn Freshwater — the UWA Profiles and Research Repository". research-repository.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  9. ^ Debska, Anna (17 January 2017). "UWA announces new Vice-Chancellor". matarikinetwork.org. Matariki Network. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  10. ^ a b Collins, Simon (5 June 2019). "British mental health researcher Dawn Freshwater appointed as University of Auckland's first female vice-chancellor". The New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  11. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (2022). "Commentary: Using mixed-methods in evidence-based nursing: A scoping review guided by a socio-ecological perspective". Journal of Research in Nursing. 27 (7): 653–654. doi:10.1177/17449871221114369. PMC 9669930. PMID 36405798.
  12. ^ Cultured Conversations with Dawn Freshwater, retrieved 19 January 2024
  13. ^ "University rankings: 'New Zealand continues to outperform relative to its size'". NZ Herald. 20 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  14. ^ "68th in the world, Auckland leads excellence across the university sector - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  15. ^ "University of Auckland No 1 in Oceania and fifth in world for sustainability - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  16. ^ "University of Auckland climbs in QS World University Rankings - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  17. ^ Dawn Freshwater at the THE Innovation & Impact Summit 2022, retrieved 12 February 2024
  18. ^ "THE Asia Universities Summit 2023". www.timeshighered-events.com. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  19. ^ "The University of Auckland on LinkedIn: Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater is at the QS India Summit 2024…". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  20. ^ Dawn Freshwater publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  21. ^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (4 October 2023). "Bibliometrics". October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Vol. 6. Elsevier Data Repository. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.6.
  22. ^ Rolfe, Gary. (2001). Critical reflection for nursing and the helping professions : a user's guide. Freshwater, Dawn., Jasper, Melanie. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave. ISBN 0333777956. OCLC 46984997.
  23. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (2002). Therapeutic Nursing. SAGE Publishing. ISBN 0761970649.
  24. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (2002). Emotions And Needs (Core Concepts in Therapy). Open University Press. ISBN 0335208010.
  25. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (2004). Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1405105348.
  26. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (2005). Counselling Skills For Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors. Open University Press. ISBN 0335207812.
  27. ^ Freshwater, Dawn (2008). International Textbook of Reflective Practice in Nursing. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405160513.
  28. ^ "Interview with Dawn Freshwater". timeshighereducation.com. Times Higher Education. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.