Laura Serrant

Laura Serrant (born 1963) is a British nurse and academic, born in Nottingham to Dominican parents. She was among the first nurses to qualify through a degree, graduating in 1986 from Sheffield City Polytechnic, and has held professorships of community and public health nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, Sheffield Hallam University and Manchester Metropolitan University, where in 2018 she became head of the School of Nursing. Her research addresses sexual and reproductive health, work with sex workers and people with alcohol and drug dependence, and racial inequality and cultural safety in health care. She has held senior nursing roles at NHS England, sat on the Prime Minister's independent commission into nursing and midwifery, and became Chair of Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust in January 2024. She was appointed OBE in 2018 and, according to the Trust, CBE in 2024, and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2023.