ProfessorFiona Timmins

Fiona Timmins PhD, MSc, MA, FFNRCSI, FAAN, BNS, BSc (Open Health & Social Care), BA (Open), RNT, RGN

Dr Timmins is Professor of Nursing, Dean, and Head of School at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is Editor in Chief of the Public Health Nursing Journal and an Honorary Editorial Advisor, at the Journal of Advanced Nursing. She is a competent researcher who has led several interdisciplinary, international research teams over a 25-year period. 

She has 25 years’ experience of teaching and leadership within the university sector, having held several senior management roles. She has also examined 23 PhD theses and held 16 External Examiner posts in the UK and Ireland. She has been involved in several national and international university Quality Reviews, and chaired two of these.

As one of the first nurse academics in Ireland to hold an international Editor in Chief position, Dr Timmins has 15 years of high-level editing experience, including representation on several international Editorial Boards. 

She has published numerous papers, with 270 peer-reviewed papers listed in Scopus. Most of these (72%) represent collaborations with international colleagues. This has meant a meaningful contribution to international debates and policy within nursing (person-centred care, information and support requirements of cardiac patients and spiritual care provision) and nurse education (e.g., management of absenteeism/student stress and nurse portfolio/reflective practice). Scival (2025) outlined her research topics as follows:

• Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice and Education
• Nursing Staff Impact on Patient Safety Outcomes
• Workplace Violence and Nurse Well-Being in Healthcare
• Enhancing Evidence Based Practices Globally
• Nursing Education and Professional Development in Health Care

She has written or co-authored 11 textbooks, and 8 book chapters. Her publications have received 4,013 recorded citations. representing citations from 106 regions globally.

Her field weighted citation impact is 2.52. Within the last five years 33% of her publications were in the top 10% most cited worldwide. 50% were in the top 10% of Journals worldwide and 72% of her peer-reviewed publications were with international colleagues. Her H-index (Scopus) is 33. 

She is currently the top author in the subject of Nursing, within the Irish Universities. Her research lies within two distinct but overlapping themes: teaching and learning and professional nursing issues. She has presented widely on these topics: more than 250 international conferences papers, 140 invited papers and workshops, and her research replicated & cited widely across the globe.