Yet another pleasant morning spent in the Swansea University Bay Campus Great Hall, watching students receive their degrees.
These are lovely occasions that have been enhanced since my day with a bit of poetry and song, and the innovation of getting the graduates to stand and applaud the families and friends who supported them through the whole degree process.
It was also enhanced by an honorary fellowship for Dame June Clark, an academic of distinction who I had worked with previously on Kirsty Williams Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016 and on College Council.
Dame June Clark, DBE FRCN is Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at Swansea University in Wales. Before her retirement in 2003 she was responsible for the development of a program of research in community health nursing and primary health care at Swansea University.
Her special interest is the development and use of standardized nomenclatures to describe nursing practice, in particular in primary health care. In 1990, she left the NHS and went into higher education as Professor of Nursing to start a new School of Nursing at Middlesex University. In 1997 she "went home to Wales" as the first professor of nursing at Swansea University.
She has also been heavily involved in nursing at an international level. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union she worked to help develop nursing leadership in Kazakhstan and Romania. She is a visiting professor at the University of Primorska, Slovenia and a frequent speaker at international conferences She has participated in numerous international task groups and workshops, has acted as consultant to WHO and ICN, and has represented the UK on ICN and European Union committees.
Her honorary DSc was well deserved.
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