Jane Noyes

Jane is an experienced researcher and nurse who specializes in health services research, and is based at the University of Wales, Bangor. She has a particular interest in children with complex needs for health and social care, and the determinants of health inequalities throughout childhood. Jane is a previous award holder of Smith and Nephew, Medical Research Council and Department of Health Fellowships. These prestigious Fellowships have enabled her to work within internationally renowned centres of excellence in health services research and the economics of health. In addition, she has held various research and teaching posts at the Universities of London, Salford, York and Manchester. Jane is Editor of the Journal of Advanced Nursing and lead convenor of the Cochrane Qualitative Research Methods Group, which is part of the international Cochrane Collaboration and produces systematic reviews of evidence to inform policy and clinical decision making.

Jane has worked for the World Health Organisation and various charities as a consultant, and undertaken projects in several countries including Oman and Senegal. She has contributed to national and regional working parties, supports a number of parents’ groups, and is Trustee of Whizzkidz the mobility charity for children.
In her earlier clinical nursing career, Jane trained and worked at St Thomas’ Hospital, Guy’s Hospital, Brompton Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in London. She was a clinical nurse specialist in children’s intensive care prior to returning to university to read for a Master of Science degree in Nursing Studies at the University of Manchester and complete Doctoral studies in Health Sciences at the University of York.

In her spare time Jane is renovating a 17th Century farmhouse on the island of Anglesey and enjoys growing fruit and vegetables. She aspires to owning a classic sports car and likes traveling the world.