Ruth Northway

Ruth Northway (born February 1961) is a British nurse and nursing academic specialising in learning disabilities. She is a professor of learning disability nursing at the University of South Wales.

Biography Northway, who is from Llantrisant in Mid Glamorgan, Wales, was born in 1961 She decided to become a nurse because she "enjoyed working with people with learning disabilities and this was the best way that [she] could do it", and subsequently spent some time as a learning disability nurse.

In 1999, Northway moved from the UWCM's School of Nursing to the University of Glamorgan, which would later merge into the University of South Wales (USW) in 2013.

As an academic, Northway specialises in learning disabilities, participatory action research, and safeguarding. and was previously the journal's editor-in-chief from 2013 to 2019. From 2003 to 2007, she was the editor of Learning Disability Practice. She became a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015. Northway won Nursing Times 2018 Chief Nursing Officers' Award for Lifetime Achievement. Northway was elected a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2021.