Jan Dewing (born c. 1961 – died 2022) was a British nurse who was the Sue Pembrey Professor of Nursing at Queen Margaret University. She was the first nursing named chair at the university and she led their Person-centred Practice Research and it's graduate research school.
Life
Dewing was born in Gateshead. Her parents were Joan (born Burnside) and John Dewing. Her mother was a tailor and her father was an engineering fitter. She qualified as a nurse locally in 1982 and ten years later she graduated from the Open University. In the following year the University of Wales awarded Dewing her first master's degree – in nursing.[1]
Dewing and Kate Sanders founded the journal International Development Practice Journal which she edited from 2011 to 2019. She was also the chief editor from 2020[1] of the journal Nursing Philosophy[3] which was later edited by Miriam Bender.[4]
Her own research included looking at the challenging problem of gaining consent from people to take part in academic research when they have increasing levels of dementia.[5] She was very interested in Person-centered therapy and she challenged ideas that were being accepted with little underpinning argument. These criticisms included some definitions of Person-Centred therapy and the idea that Karl Rogers had been the first to work in that area.[6]
She led the university's Person-centred Practice Research and the university's graduate research school from 2015.[3]
Dewing, Jan (June 2008). "Process Consent and Research with Older Persons Living with Dementia". Research Ethics. 4 (2): 59–64. doi:10.1177/174701610800400205. S2CID144350357.
Dewing, Jan; McCormack, Brendan (September 2017). "Editorial: Tell me, how do you define person-centredness?". Journal of Clinical Nursing. 26 (17–18): 2509–2510. doi:10.1111/jocn.13681. hdl:2263/62512. PMID27960045.
Dewing, Jan; McCormack, Brendan; Titchen, Angie (2014). Practice Development Workbook for Nursing, Health and Social Care Teams. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1-118-67670-7.
