Professor Cherith Semple is a Professor in Clinical Cancer Nursing, in the Institute of Nursing and Health Research (INHR) at Ulster University which is a clinical academic appointment with South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (SET). She is an experienced clinical academic with over twenty-five years of experience in clinical practice, education and research. Cherith currently leads on two research programmes of work, namely, “Family-centred cancer care: Promoting positive coping when a parent of dependent children has cancer” and “Post-treatment quality of life issues for patients with head and neck cancer”. She also leads Ulster University’s INHR Cancer Care Research Group.