NEWS: Janet Jarvis receives honorary Associate Professor title

The Leicester Diabetes Centre are delighted to announce that Janet Jarvis, Co-Course Director for MSc Diabetes - Distance Learning, has recently received an honorary Associate Professor title from the University of Leicester

As one of the core research staff who originally founded the diabetes research group within UHL, Janet (known by the team as ‘JJ’) has helped to set up some of the pivotal studies which went on to form the first collaborative studies with Professor Melanie Davies CBE and Professor Kamlesh Khunti.

JJ has had over 30 peer reviewed publications and has also led, or been significantly involved in, a number of abstracts which have been presented at both national and international conferences, both within the area of Diabetes and the Health Education context.

Sally Schreder, Assistant Director of Operations, Leicester Diabetes Centre-UHL NHS Trust commented:

“This is such a well-deserved recognition and testament to the contributions JJ  has given to the success and growth of both the Leicester Diabetes Centre and the Diabetes Research Centre over the last two decades”

JJ’s involvement in launching our distance learning diabetes MSc programme in October 2016 was instrumental and the programme continues to attract more and more students from across the globe. With successes such as 22 graduates and 62 active students enrolled, it is one of the key distance learning courses in the University of Leicester’s College of Life Sciences. 

Securing her Post Graduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice in 2019, JJ is the external examiner for the Diabetes Practice MSc distance learning course at Swansea University. Janet has also worked on a national level to develop frameworks for post-graduate education and career pathways for diabetes specialist nurses with the charity Diabetes UK.

JJ added: 

“I feel quite overwhelmed and very privileged to be honoured in such a way. I am really grateful to everyone I work with, especially Professor Melanie Davies and Professor Kamlesh Khunti, who I have worked with from the inception of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, and also the core Masters team are just invaluable”

Click the video below to find out more about our MSc Diabetes Distance Learning and to hear about what becoming an Associate Professor means to JJ.