Draft:Joseph C. Manning

Joseph C. Manning MBE PhD, MNursSci(Hons), PGCert, RN is a clinical academic nurse from the UK.

He currently holds a joint appointment as Professor of Nursing and Child Health in the School of Healthcare, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK and Nottingham Children's Hospital, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK. 

Education and Career
Born in Northampton, Manning attended Stimpson Avenue Lower School, Cliftonville Middle School, and Northampton School for Boys where he also completed his A' Levels.

From 2001-2005 he completed the only Undergraduate Masters of Nursing Science (MNursSci Hons) programmes in UK, and trained as a Registered Children's Nurse at the University of Nottingham. During his undergraduate education he was introduced to clinical academic careers for nurses and decided that was the career for him.

Manning completed a staff nurse rotation at Nottingham Children's hospital which concluded on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit where he stayed. He completed post graduate qualification in speciality and worked in retrieval nurse, Junior charge nurse, and clinical research nurse roles.

In 2011, he was awarded an University of Nottingham and NIHR funded Translational Research Fellowship. His PhD thesis was: ''Stories of Survival. Exploring long-term psychosocial well-being in childhood survivors of acute life threatening critical illness: A multiple-case study''

Manning held post-doctoral positions at University of Nottingham and Coventry University whilst maintaining clinical and leadership roles in the NHS.

In 2019 he was the first children's nurse to be awarded an NIHR HEE ICA Clinical Lectureship.

Honours and Awards
Manning was awarded the Chief Nursing Officer for England Gold Lifetime Award in 2020 for his leadership to nursing research and clinical academic careers in the NHS.

Manning was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to Nursing in 2021.