Kim English, RN, EdD (she/her), is a nurse educator, researcher, and consultant based in Ontario whose work sits at the intersection of decolonizing nursing education, rural and remote health, and nursing leadership development. She holds a Doctorate of Education and has been recognized with numerous teaching awards for her innovative, relational, and equity-focused approaches to curriculum and learning design.
Her academic work spans undergraduate and graduate education, where she designs and facilitates courses that connect nursing leadership, advocacy, and political engagement with real-world system change. She integrates digital storytelling, design thinking, and critical reflection to help learners navigate complex practice environments while remaining grounded in social justice, decolonization, and collective responsibility.
As a researcher, she has secured multiple grants to advance a program of inquiry focused on nurses’ stories, rural community resilience, and the ongoing impacts of colonization on health and health professions education. Using qualitative, narrative, and relational methodologies, her work centres the voices of nurses—particularly those in rural and remote communities—to inform curriculum reform, policy dialogue, and leadership development.
In her leadership and consulting practice, she supports nurses and interprofessional teams to cultivate self-advocacy, boundary-setting, and ethical relational practice as foundations for sustainable leadership and system transformation. She has provided consulting support to a number of First Nation organizations, partnering on curriculum review, faculty development, and decolonizing and anti-oppressive initiatives that foreground Indigenous knowledge, community priorities, and rural health equity.
She continues to collaborate with academic programs, health organizations, and Indigenous and rural communities to reimagine nursing education and leadership in ways that honour lived experience, challenge colonial structures, and leverage emerging technolMore...