Jenny Carryer | |
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![]() Carryer in 2020 | |
Other names | Jennifer Barbara Carryer |
Alma mater | Massey University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Massey University |
Thesis | |
Website | Massey staff page |
Jennifer Barbara Carryer CNZM is a New Zealand nursing academic. She is currently a full professor of nursing at the Massey University [1] and executive director of the New Zealand College of Nurses. [2]
Carryer completed a PhD at Massey University in 1997, before joining the staff and rising to full professor in 2011. [3] Her thesis was titled 'A feminist appraisal of the experience of embodied largeness: a challenge for nursing' . [4] Her research interests are nurse practitioners, chronic illness, obesity and gender. [1]
In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours, Carryer was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to nursing. [5] In the 2020 New Year Honours, she was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health, particularly nursing. [6]