Carrie holds an honorary Senior Fellowship in the School of Health Sciences having formerly been Director of UEA Health and Social Care Partners and Director of the ImpACT Research Group.  She continues to supervise PhD students.

A nurse by background Carrie has a wealth of experience over 35 years boundary spanning leadership roles in education, practice and research contexts in the UK and internationally.  Her research expertise is in large scale complex evaluation, and mixed methods reseaerch  specialising in workforce development with a passion for large scale systems transformation, systems leadership, safety cultures, culture change, innovation and improvement.   

She currently holds an Adjunct Associate Professor role for Collaborative Research with the School of Nursing in the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Adjunct Professor Academic role in the Federation University Australia and is a member of the Health Foundation's Q movement.  

She sits on a national steering group for personalised interprofessional education through PERCiE exploring innovative and creative new models of undergraduate learning with international colleagues.  These innovations focus on neighbourhood models of health and social care co-designed with citizens and communities to meet their health needs by place and reduce health inequalities.  Creating different skills in our future workforce to address the complexity of health and social care is vital.

She is regularly invited to  undertake consultancy work.

Before joining UEA she was co-founding Director of the England Centre for Practice Development (ECPD) which she established with her colleagues Professor Kim Manley CBE and Professor Jan Dewing in October 2011.  The centre led applied health research, practice development and innovation at regional, national and international level and was an active member of the International Practice Development Collaborative (IPDC).  

 A nurse by background she is passionate about making a difference in practice working with all the professions to improve the quality of person centered care.  Her recent interests are in coproduction, community wellbeing and flourishing through social innovation and entrepreneurship, working with neighbourhoods to help address some of the major issues affecting health and wellbeing posed by recent world events.  She works with a range of creative practitioners from the arts and humanities using creative media, to help support inclusion and participation of vulnerable groups in our communities.  

You can follow her on X @IPDCarrie, or connect through Linked In at thecarriejackson.