Senior Fellow | academic
Professor of Older Peoples Mental Health
The University of Manchester
Jean McFarlane Building, Oxford Road, Manchester
M13 9PL
(0)161 306 7854
john.keady@manchester.ac.uk
Dementia and Ageing Research Team (DART)
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.