Professor Victoria Ridgway
Associate Dean
Biography
Victoria Ridgway is Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Partnership, Enterprise and Portfolio Development, in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society at the University of Chester. She provides strategic leadership to support the Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean for Health, Medicine in managing the Faculty’s portfolio and development of new provision. Professor Ridgway has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and has published and research in this field.
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Ridgway has taught extensively across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in nurse education, as well as inter-professional research methods and clinical supervision. She supervises a range of postgraduate research and taught degree students and currently leads on the creative health placement.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
As a Professor of Nursing and a nurse academic, Professor Ridgway’s research interests have focused on nursing, ageing, pedagogic practice and practice learning. Her early career focused on ageing following studying gerontology and her PhD which explored visual perceptions of ageing. She has published work linked to practice learning, student nurses and social work students’ perceptions of ageing, visual research methods and nurse education. More recently, her work has focused on creative health and in particular, the evaluation of a creative health placement. She has presented at national and international conferences.