Dr Joseph Manning is a Clinical-Academic Nurse and a current National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Health Education England (HEE) Integrated Clinical-Academic (ICA) Clinical Lecturer. He has a joint appointment at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and The University of Nottingham (UoN) allowing for meaningful concurrent engagement in clinical practice and research.  In his clinical-academic role, Joseph works as a Clinical Associate Professor in Children, Young People and Families Nursing, Charge Nurse for Paediatric Critical Care Outreach Team (Nottingham Children's Hospital), and as the lead for NMAHP research theme for Children and Families at NUH.  Since qualifying in 2005, he has been committed to undertaking a clinical-academic career to generate, advance and implement nursing science to achieve excellence in the care, experience and outcomes of infants, children and their families. Joseph completed his PhD in 2015, and from his doctoral and post-doctoral activity has experience in using a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore and understand phenomena and to develop and measure the effectiveness of interventions. Joseph was the recipient of the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) Nursing Fellowship 2014, he is an alumni of the Bloomberg Emerging Nurse Scholar Forum (2015, University of Toronto, Canada), and has recently been awarded a Health Education England (East Midlands) Clinical Scholar Gold Award (2017-2018). He is actively involved in the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) and is the elected Vice-Chair of the Nursing Science Section.