Rayna Rogowsky

Rayna Rogowsky is a registered nurse in the UK and New York (USA). Rayna earned a BA in Women’s and Gender Studies & History (Middlebury College, USA), a BSc Nursing (New York University, USA) and a MSc Health Psychology (University of St Andrews, UK). She has been a Lecturer (Education and Scholarship) in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Dundee since 2020 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has held varied roles working with diverse populations including perinatal families and people affected by gender-based violence.

As a nursing educator she is passionate about enhancing wellbeing and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the curriculum and beyond. She organises and chairs a seminar series called Diversity Points, which explores EDI in health sciences and higher education with students, staff, and practitioners that is online and open to all. She was selected as a Council of Deans of Health (CoDH) Fellow in 2022 and is a member of the CoDH EDI Strategic Policy Group. Previously, she served as Athena SWAN Co-Lead in the School of Health Sciences (2022-2025).

Rayna has led scholarly activity on co-developing EDI curriculum in nursing; enhancing practice for recognising, reporting and responding to racism in nursing; and transforming gender balance in nursing. She has been successful in obtaining small funding awards to support her scholarship activity and prevously as a student to build upon her MSc dissertation, which used a theoretical framework to explore the healthcare needs and service experiences of university students with a long-term illness, medical condition, or disability. As a Research Assistant at the University of St Andrews she was involved with investigating methods of connection from primary care to community-based physical activity using evidence synthesis and qualitative methods. Rayna has contributed to projects in the School of Health Sciences affiliated with the Mother, Infant, and Child Health Research Group (MIRU) and the Healthy Active Ageing Team (HAAT) that relate to her broad research interests in wellbeing, health behaviours, health promotion, and inequalities.