Paul John won Overseas Nurse of the Year in 2023 and was a Practice Educator of the Year finalist. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Education and was a former fellow of NHS England and the Florence Nightingale Foundation INMA Program. Before joining the UK workforce, he worked as a research fellow at the International Network on Gender, Social Justice and Praxis at the University of Newcastle, Australia, a lecturer at Beijing University of Technology, and a teaching fellow at a Ph.D. program at Beijing Normal University. He is now a senior lecturer at the University of Worcester.