I am the Theresa A. Thomas Professor of Nursing and Director of the PhD Program.
Barbara Parker, PhD, RN, FAAN
Theresa A. Thomas Professor in Primary Care Nursing
Director of the PhD program
Department: Family, Community & Mental Health Systems
Office: CMNEB 2101
Phone: (434) 982-1976
Email:
bjp8c@Virginia.EDU
Fax: (434) 243-8371
Dr. Barbara Parker has been actively involved in the field of violence against women since 1975. She has conducted several research studies on intimate partner violence, including studies on the relationship between abuse in pregnancy and maternal and infant complications, a clinical trial to test a nursing empowerment intervention for abused women, and a qualitative study of abuse with community dwelling women with severe mental illness. Recently, her research is exploring the intersection of violence and bereavement with co-investigator Dr. Richard Steeves and they have now completed a qualitative study of 86 adult survivors of uxoricide (one parent killing the other parent) funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. She is currently conducting a web based intervention for guardians of survivors of uxoricide (K. Laughon, PI). She is the Theresa A. Thomas Professor of Nursing at the
University of Virginia
and director of their PhD program. She has published over 94 articles, and 35 book chapters.
She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, past president of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International and was the Year 2000 Distinguished Nurse Researcher of the Southern Nursing Research Society. In 2004, she received an award for excellence in research from the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International and the faculty leadership award from the University of Virginia
School of Nursing
. In 2007, she received the Distinguished Professor award from the
University of Virginia
Research Focus
Violence against women, women's health, homicide survivors, uxoricide, violence in pregnancy, intimate partner violence interventions, intimate partner violence and breast cancer, international violence against women, rape and sexual assault, methodological and measurement issues
Clinical Focus
women's health, survivors of trauma, pregnancy and intimate partner violence, breast cancer and intimate partner violence
Teaching Focus
Research methodology, how to conduct an integrative literature review, proposal writing, critical thinking, issues in nursing and research processes.
