Dr Judith Carrier is a senior lecturer/Director of postgraduate taught studies at Cardiff University School of Healthcare Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include both long term condition management, specifically diabetes, and evidence synthesis and utilisation. Her PhD focused on the social organisation of practice nurses’ use of knowledge. Her clinical background is in practice nursing where she specialised in the care of people with diabetes. Judith is also Director of the Wales Centre for Evidence Based Care, a centre of Joanna Briggs Institute and has published a number of systematic reviews. The 2nd edition of her book “Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care” was published earlier this year following a successful 1st edition published in 2009
