Professor Georgina Cox

Profile Overview

Georgina Cox is a first-generation Windrush descendant with 30+ years of nursing experience and over 25 years in higher education. She has led both pre- and post-registration programmes with a focus on Physiology, Diabetes Practice, and Nurse Prescribing. At the University of East London (UEL), Georgie led the pilot course for Trainee Nursing Associates—the first new professional role in nursing in 50+ years—and currently leads the Nursing Associates programme.

Georgie is part of the second cohort of the WHEN100 Black Women Professors Now programme. She chairs the UEL Office for Institutional Equity Race Network and serves as departmental lead for Athena Swan in Health, Sport & Bioscience. She has co‑chaired HAREDIN (and its Strategic Advisory Group) and SHAREDIN for student nurses, as well as the Middlesex University Anti‑Racism Network (MDXARN). She now leads Athena Swan SAT teams and chairs UEL’s Race Inclusion and Social Equity (RICE) Network, and is on the National Steering Group for the GM Student Experience Steering Group.

Through these networks, Georgie has elevated Race equity priorities and contributed to the broader knowledge base in EDI. She is co‑authoring a student nursing associate physiology text to address the needs of the GEM population and support curriculum decolonisation. With World Afro Day, she advocates for legislative changes on chemical hair relaxers affecting Black women and children—calling for accurate labelling for products with endocrine disruptors and carcinogens and a shift in perception of Black hair: “Fix the law, not our hair.”

Selected Publications

• Cultural differences in views of death during COVID‑19 (2022). Dangwa F, Ncube T, Cox G, Gervaise E. British Journal of Nursing 31(9):468. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2022.31.9.468.
• Optimising the activities and the products of academic and student collaborative networks to achieve equality, diversity and inclusion goals in higher education (2021). Sobrany S, Cox G, Simon Miller J, Gardener E, Higginbottom G. Journal of Educational Innovation Partnership and Change 7(1). DOI: 10.21100/jeipc.V7i1.1025.
• Time for nursing to eradicate hair discrimination (2021). Cox G, Sobrany S, Jenkins E, Musipa C, Darbyshire P. Journal of Clinical Nursing 30: e45–47. doi:10.1111/jocn.15708.
• Will nurse leaders help eradicate ‘hair racism’ from Nursing and Health Services? (2021). Cox G, Sobrany S, Jenkins E, Musipa C, Darbyshire P. Journal of Nursing Management 00:1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13286.
• Using Anonymous Marking to Give Fair Unbiased Grading and Feedback (2019). Page K, Koushappas J, Cox G. RCN Education Conference, Bristol — poster presentation.
• The impact of introducing clinical skills drop‑in sessions for first‑year student nurses on placement in the Whittington Trust (2016). Alison Dexter; Georgina Cox. NET Conference, Cambridge.
• The Rubric: an assessment tool to guide students and markers (2016). Cox G, Brathwaite B, Morrison J. In Advances in Higher Education, ch. 9, pp. 149–164.
• The Evaluation of a Model of Dissertation Supervision for Third‑Year BSc undergraduate Nursing students: A pilot study (2016). Schofield D, Cox G. Nurse Education in Practice 17:75–85.

Teaching & Leadership Philosophy

Georgie champions inclusive, student‑centred learning and evidence‑based practice. Her leadership blends clinical credibility with academic rigor, ensuring programmes are future‑proof, equitable, and aligned to professional standards and public health needs.