Christine Ingleton

Christine Ingleton is a British academic, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield, specialising in palliative care. She is co-editor of three text books on palliative care and nursing.

Academic career

Ingleton trained as a nurse and specialised in intensive care nursing. After moving into academia, she completed a Bachelor of Education with Honours, a Master of Arts and in 1997 a PhD at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD thesis was titled Evaluating palliative care services: an analysis of two hospices in one health district using a pluralistic case study approach. Ingleton then joined the faculty of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University of Sheffield, where she was Head of Department from 2003 to 2006. She was appointed to the position of full professor in 2010. Her inaugural professorial lecture was on the evidence base for palliative care nursing.

Ingleton holds a visiting professorship at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and has co-supervised graduate students there alongside collaborator Professor Merryn Gott.

Ingleton's research focuses on palliative care, death and dying. She has co-edited three medical textbooks on nursing and palliative care, one of which is in its second edition.

Ingleton is a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Community Nursing and the British Medical Journal (Supportive and Palliative Care).

Selected works

Books

Journal articles