Parveen Ali

Parveen Azam Ali (born 4 April 1979) is a British nurse and academic of Pakistani origin. She is Professor of Nursing and Gender Based Violence at the University of Sheffield, with a joint clinical appointment at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2020 she has served as editor-in-chief of International Nursing Review, the official journal of the International Council of Nurses.

Education Ali was educated at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, where she completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing. She subsequently undertook doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR).

Career Ali joined the University of Sheffield's School of Nursing and Midwifery as a lecturer in 2014, having previously held a lecturing post at the University of Hull. She subsequently rose to a chair in the renamed School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery, where she leads the MMedSci in Advanced Nursing Studies and serves as a Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. She has been a member of The Lancet relating to nursing.

Honours and awards In 2014, Ali was one of six recipients of the Royal College of Nursing's Mary Seacole leadership awards, which supported her work on health inequalities in Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

In 2017, she received the Emerging Nurse Researcher Award from the European region of Sigma Theta Tau International.

In 2020, the International Council of Nurses recognised her radio outreach to the Pakistani community of South Yorkshire on health-related matters as part of its International Nurses Day campaign.

In 2022, she received the Asian Women of Achievement Award in the Professions category.

In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing as part of the academy's 2023 class of new fellows. In 2025, she was admitted ad eundem as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery.

Ali is also a Senior Fellow of the Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Selected publications