June Clark

Dame June Clark, DBE, PhD, RN, RHV, FRCN is a Professor of Community Nursing, at the University of Wales, Swansea in Wales, UK.

Dr. Clark is responsible for the development of a program of research in community health nursing and primary health care at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her special interest is the development and use of standardized nomenclatures to describe nursing practice, in particular in primary health care. Since 1990 she has been consultant to the International Council of Nurses' project to develop an international classification of nursing practice.

She is also deputy president of the Welsh Nursing Academy.

June Clark qualified as a nurse at University College Hospital, London after obtaining an honours degree in Classics at London University. She then qualified as a health visitor, and remained in community nursing as a practitioner, manager, researcher, teacher, and political advocate for nearly 40 years. She obtained her MPhil degree at the University of Reading in 1972, and her doctorate from London South Bank University, London, in 1985.

She has also been heavily involved at an international level. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union she worked to help develop nursing leadership in Kazakhstan and Romania. She is a visiting professor at the University of Iowa, U.S., and the University of Maribor, Slovenia. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has participated in numerous international task groups and workshops, has acted as consultant to WHO and ICN, and has represented the UK on ICN and European Union committees.

She has been an RCN activist since her student days and has held many leadership roles in the RCN, including serving as President from 1990 to 1994. She was awarded the RCN Award of Merit in 1996. In 1995 she was invested as Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to nursing.

Clark currently resides in Swansea.