Jean Ross

Jean Ross is a Welsh–New Zealand registered nurse, author and academic, and is a full professor at the Otago Polytechnic, specialising in rural nursing, nurse education and rural health. She has worked in rural nursing for more than thirty years, and in 2008 she won the Peter Snow Memorial Award for her contribution to rural health care.

Academic career

Ross is originally from Wales, and trained as a nurse. She moved to New Zealand in 1991. Ross earned a master's degree at Victoria University of Wellington in 2001. Ross completed a PhD titled 'Place' Matters to Rural Nurses: A Study Located in the Rural Otago Region of New Zealand at the University of Otago in 2017.

Ross has worked in rural nursing for more than thirty years. Ross is on the faculty of the Otago Polytechnic, rising to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2022. The theme of her inaugural professorial lecture was communities of place and of interest, and how she had contributed to them, and their impact on her work.

Ross has published three edited books. In 2008, Rural Nursing: Aspects of Practice was the first New Zealand rural text book. Selected works