University of Stirling

Faculty Member, Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit

Senior Research Fellow (NMAHP RU, University of Stirling) and Honorary Advanced Clinical Practitioner (NHS Forth Valley)

About

I graduated from Queen Margaret College Edinburgh in 1995 and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy from the University of Dundee in 1998.  I received my PhD in 2004 following several years experience as an occupational therapist in mental health. I was the first recipient of the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Profession Training Scheme’s postdoctoral fellowship the same year. In 2006 I was appointed as a clinical research fellow in the NMAHP RU, a national research unit centrally funded by the Scottish Government.  Since 2006 I have undertaken and supervised various research studies in mental health, palliative care, paediatric practice, and pre-hospital emergency care settings. In 2010 I was promoted to senior research fellow.

My current research focuses on pre-hospital emergency care,and quality and delivery of care of NMAHP practice.  I currently supervise four PhD students. 

My pre-hospital emergency care research brings me in close contact with paramedics and other ambulance clinicians.  I work closely with the Scottish Ambulance Service in both research and knowledge exchange roles.

I am the editor of the fourth edition of Foundations for Practice in Occupational Therapy, an internationally acclaimed core theoretical text, and its sister publication Skills for Practice in Occupational Therapy.  I peer review for various academic journals. I am the immediate past chair the editorial board for the British Journal of Occupational Therapy, and am an International Advisory Board member of the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal. I previously was an Associate Editor with the American Journal of Occupational Therapy.

I am a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy for Scotland.

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