Professor Jacqueline Parkes is an experienced registered mental health nurse practitioner, who has worked clinically across community, acute in-patient, rehabilitation, secure services, learning disability, and elderly mental health care settings. She is also a senior academic who has designed and delivered a broad range of educational nursing, mental health, and research programmes from foundation degree through to Professional Doctorates, including an MSc in Mental Health. Jackie's subject specialisms are mental health and nursing research, with a particular focus on developing and implementing person-centered care pathways and strong research interests in young onset dementia, early intervention, and social support, service evaluation and review through action research, project management, and psychological aspects of health and well-being.