Dr Jane Wray

Jane Wray is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Hull, and Graduate Research Director. She was previously the Senior Clinical Nurse Advisor for the National Preceptorship Project in the UK. She has an established track record in research, scholarship, teaching and learning and her research interests are in nurse education and professional practice with a focus on supportive and inclusive workplaces. Jane is Deputy Editor for Evidence Based Nursing and has published and presented her work nationally and internationally. Jane supervises students at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

Jane is an active member of several national and international nursing organisations and communities of practice and completed her PhD in 2017 and this explored newly qualified nurses' (NQNs) perceptions of culturally competent practice.

She has been awarded a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (FFNMRCSI) (2022), A Burdett Trust for Nursing 'Nursing Hero' award (2022) and was shortlisted for the Nursing Times Workforce Awards for Preceptorship Team of the Year (2023).