Professor Roger Watson is a biology graduate of The University of Edinburgh, UK.  Following a PhD in biochemistry from The University of Sheffield, UK he entered nursing and qualified in 1984 after studying at St George’s Hospital, London, UK.  He worked in Scotland with older people and then entered academic nursing at The University of Edinburgh in 1989.  His first chair was in Ireland in 1998 where he became the first Professor of Nursing in Ireland at Dublin City University.  He returned to the UK in 1999 to the Chair in Nursing at The University of Hull, in 2005, the Chair in Nursing at The University of Sheffield and in 2012 Professor of Nursing at The University of Hull.  Since 2012 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. In 2007 Professor Watson became the first UK nurse elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and in 2009 was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in the UK.

Professor Watson is best known for the development of the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia scale which is now used in several countries, including the USA and Taiwan.  His research interests are wide and he has also researched the areas of caring in nursing and work and study related stress in nurses and nursing students.  He is well published in refereed journals and has several textbooks on science in nursing, accountability and research methods.

Professor Watson is a frequent visitor to China (Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan) where he has visiting chairs and has established several consultancies based on helping Chinese nursing scholars to publish in English in nursing journals. 

Roger Watson holds the following positions:

Honorary Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor, University of Western Sydney
Honorary Professor, University of Stirling

Roger Watson holds the following honours:

FRSA. FSB, FHEA, FEANS, FFNMRCSI, FRCN, FAAAN
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