Professor John Atkinson (r)
Professor John Michael Atkinson
Biography John Atkinson is a community nurse by background. Originally from
AT PRESENT coaching Health and Public Service colleagues to achieve higher IELTS scores for employment.
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GREATER-GLASGOW BASED ENGLISH for BUSINESS & ACADEMIC PRACTICE TUTOR
Coaching
clients from the UK and overseas
John trains and assists research degree students and supervisors, coaches for examination success and project initiation, planning and management.
July 2015- August 2016 INTO Glasgow Caledonian. (400 hours face to face teaching 120 students) English for Academic Purposes, English
for University Studies
April 2015. Successfully passed the Cambridge ESOL CELTA Course
Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
at the University of Glasgow
Notable features
Between 1984-1987, Atkinson initiated a service for homeless
men in the east end of Glasgow, for which he received the International Bard Award in 1987.
From 1987-1990, with two colleagues he set up the first HIV/AIDS community team in Scotland, based in Glasgow. The team won several awards and recognition for its innovative approaches.
In 1990 he became a
Scottish Office Home & Health Department Research Fellow pursuing his work with single homeless men at Glasgow Caledonian University, from which he completed his PhD.
In 1995 Atkinson took the role of Health
Care Manager at Her Majesty’s Prison Barlinnie, one of the busiest prison’s in Europe. As part of a national team the brief was to transform health and nursing practice to modern NHS and internationally recognised standards.
At the start the prison service was in breach of most national quality standard health measures, by 1999 a high level of compliance had been achieved.
1999 saw Atkinson move to the University of Paisley as Senior Lecturer, Researcher(subsequently
merged and now the University of the West of Scotland 2006), School of Health Nursing & Midwifery. At the time there was no research activity within the School of any kind. Over the following years, research activity accelerated and he was appointed as
Associate Dean, gaining a Personal Professorship in 2004, he collaborated, drove and initiated engagement, recruitment, funding applications and awards. The School now has around 50 research students, 6 research professors and an emerging
presence in the UK Research Excellence Framework. He has a wide research profile including a Research Council study in Malawi and supervised 12 research students to completion and examined 5 Phds.
From 2009 – June
2012 Atkinson was Professor, Community & Postgraduate Studies, with management of all elements of post-registration awards and much of the taught postgraduate Master’s portfolio (around 1800 students). This work has included all elements
of preparation for validations as well as serving on panels for other subject areas. Atkinson is active in research training within the University and further afield and was Programme Leader for the Post Graduate Certificate Research Degree Supervision.
John Atkinson is now retired from the University, an Emeritus Professor, English as a foreign language teacher, consultant research and project worker.