Professor Julie Davies

Trustee

Julie Davies chairs the EDI subcommittee in The Kirkwood. She is Professor of Healthcare Management and Leadership Development in Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London. Her research projects include palliative care nursing retention and well-being in Saudi Arabia and medical leadership and gender disparities in India. Julie is a practitioner Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She earned her PhD in strategic leadership at Warwick University. 

Previously, Julie was the inaugural MBA Health Director at UCL, Subject Group Leader for Research and Enterprise at Huddersfield Business School, Deputy CEO of the Chartered Association of Business Schools, and senior manager in UCL Chemistry, City University, School of Oriental & African Studies, and the National Health Service. She has taught on the Open University MBA, at Birkbeck and Cass and was a visiting scholar at Melbourne University in 2017. Julie has a PhD in strategic management from Warwick University and is a practitioner Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. 

Julie lives in North London. She enjoys playing squash, practising yoga, and countryside writing retreats. Julie became a trustee for The Kirkwood in December 2018. Julie says: “I believe that everyone with a life-limiting or terminal illness should receive timely and high-quality palliative care at home or in specialist centres. It’s a huge privilege to be part of The Kirkwood’s governance structure to sustain its vital services for patients and their families in Kirklees. With changing demographics in an ageing society, we need to expand these services in the community in collaboration with GPs and care homes, develop innovative partnerships, workforce and funding models, and effective communications”.

Your can follow Julie on X here: @juliedaviesUK