Jacqueline Cleator

Biography

Jackie Cleator has been a Lecturer in Nursing at The University of Manchester, UK since 2012. After graduating from the University of Liverpool with a degree in modern languages, she completed her nurse training at The Thomas Guy School of Nursing in 1987. Various ward-based clinical roles as a staff nurse and ward sister in General Surgery, Urology and Elderly Medical units followed. She completed a MA in Health Services Management before returning to Liverpool University in 1997 to join Professor John Wilding’s Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Research Group as a research nurse. During the 12 years she worked in this department she gained extensive clinical and managerial experience of obesity, working variously as a clinical trial co-ordinator on many anti-obesity and diabetes medication studies, as an Extended Scope Practitioner in the Aintree Weight Management Service and as the Operational Manager of the Ashton, Leigh & Wigan Specialist Weight Management Service.  Whilst working in the clinical setting she developed a research interest in Night Eating Syndrome and in 2012 was awarded a PhD for investigations into the prevalence and characteristics of night eating behaviour in severely obese populations.

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

National Fellow of the Specialist Certification of Obesity Professional Education Programme (SCOPE) of the World Obesity Federation.

Specialist Obesity Nursing Representative (Education) on the World Obesity/Clinical Care Task Force Committee.

Member of  the Diabetes and Obesity Network (DORN) Steering Committee (Manchester and Liverpool)

Member of University of Manchester School of Nursing Athena SWAN committee