About
Nicola is an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow and Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, working on studies in the Ageing and Dementia theme of NIHR ARC Wessex. Nicola is a registered nurse, with a background in end-of-life care nursing and quality improvement work in care home and domiciliary care settings. Her research interests focus on care for people living with frailty in care homes and home care settings, in particular end-of-life care and person-centred approaches.
Research
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Research interests
- Care homes, extra-care housing and home care
- Knowledge mobilisation
- Ageing and frailty
- End-of-life care
Current research
Nicola is working as an Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow (40%). In this role she is focused on knowledge mobilisation in the care home and home care settings. Nicola is also working as a Research Fellow (60%) in the Ageing & Dementia theme of ARC Wessex. She is leading qualitative data collection for the CAtCH-NET study.
Previous work has included leading work for two ARC Wessex funded research studies, one study investigating deprescribing for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment in primary care (STOP-DEM) and the other developing training to support delivery of person-centred care by home care workers (CHAT & PLAN), and leading a joint ARC Wessex and Health Innovation Wessex team delivering the Wessex NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme (NIPP) work on digital remote monitoring and frailty.
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Biography
Nicola commenced work at the University of Southampton in June 2021, following completion of a PhD, having previously worked as a senior nurse in the NHS and independent hospices for more than twenty years. Since joining the university, she has worked on projects for the Applied Research Collaboration Wessex, including a joint project with Health Innovation Wessex.
She graduated as a registered nurse at the University of Nottingham. Her clinical career was in the fields of palliative and end-of-life care and care of older people. She established and led a palliative care education team for care homes provided by a hospice. She also set up and led an integrated CCG and local authority quality team supporting care homes and home care providers. Her PhD was an ethnography of multi-professional involvement in the advance care planning process in two nursing homes.