Welcome to the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice 

Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at Thames Valley University

Click here to read our latest news

IMPORTANT NEWS ITEM - 31 JULY 2007

Professor Elizabeth Anionwu will be retiring on the 1st August 2007 and in the same month all staff at the Ealing site [Westel House] where the Centre  was based are relocating to Paragon House, Thames Valley University, Boston Manor Road, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 96A near the entrance of the M4 motorway.  Dr Dave Sookhoo, Principal Lecturer [Research] dave.sookhoo@tvu.ac.uk  will devote part of his time to continuing the activities of the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice. 

Thames Valley University have given Elizabeth the honorary award of Emeritus Professor of Nursing.  This will allow Elizabeth to maintain a 'virtual' link with the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences as she will retain her university email address elizabeth.anionwu@tvu.ac.uk  BUT for queries concerning aspects of Diversity work at the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences please email: dave.sookhoo@tvu.ac.uk

Thank you.

HISTORY OF THE CENTRE

The Centre was originally created in 1998 and Elizabeth named it after Mary Seacole as so few people seemed to have heard about this amazing Jamaican woman and her enormous contributions to nursing soldiers in the Crimean war.   The  focus of the Centre  is to enable the integration of a multi-ethnic philosophy into the process of nursing and midwifery recruitment, education, practice, management and research.  

Click on the links below for:

• Centre Annual Report (2006-2007)
• CANDLES Project Final Report (2006)
• CANDLES Project Executive Summary (Dec2006)
• Centre Annual Report (2005-2006)
• Centre Annual Report (2004-2005) 
• CANDLES 18 month report (May 2005)
• DATING (Diversity, Attrition and Transition Into Nursing) Project Executive Summary (December 2005)
• DATING (Diversity, Attrition and Transition Into Nursing) Project Final Report (December 2005)
• Latest Centre News items and Events
• Information on the work of the Centre or on the 'ACTIVITIES' button above. 

 Professor Anionwu is:

• An Honorary Professor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• On the Editorial Advisory Board of  Nursing Standard
• Vice-Chairperson of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Apppeal [www.maryseacoleappeal.org.uk/]  a registered charity that was established in November 2003 by Clive Soley, former MP, now Lord Soley.  Please click on the link if you would like to donate   online or download a form to send in a cheque to the appeal.  Thank you for your support!
• Member of several national committees including the: Wellcome Wolfson Building Trustees' Committee, Dana Centre: Science Museum; the NHS Sickle and Thalassaemia Screening Implementation Programme Steering Group; the King’s Fund  Management Committee.  She is also one of the Patrons of  STAC (Sickle and Thalassaemia Association of Counsellors) and the Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association UK.

Last updated: 04/08/2007