John Keady

Overview

• I lead the inter-disciplinary Dementia and Ageing Research Team [DART]
• I hold a jointly funded post with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
• I am founding and Co-Editor of Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, Sage Publications. First edition 2002
• I am a member of the MICRA management committee
• I am a member of the Care Services and Public Health Grant Advisory Body of the Alzheimer''s Society
• I am an invited Senior Fellow with NIHR School for Social Care Research [2015-2019]

Biography

I trained as a mental health nurse in Warley Hospital, Brentwood, Essex (1983-1986) before moving to Bangor, North Wales in Autum 1986. Once in North Wales, I held a number of clinical appointments in dementia care, including 4 years as a community mental health nurse in a community mental health team for people with dementia in Merionnydd, Gwynedd, before moving into the University of Wales, Bangor in 1993 to pursue teaching and academic qualifications. My Ph.D. was studied part-time (1993-1999) and was focussed on the social construction of dementia as experienced by people with dementia and their families. At Northumbria University I held the first Professorial Chair in dementia care nursing in the UK before moving to The University of Manchester in October 2006 to take up the post of Professor of Older People''s Mental Health Nursing, a joint appointment with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.