UK Higher Education Institutions and their research interests - Scotland
In March 2012, we wrote to every UK Higher Education Institution which offers a healthcare related course, asking them for details of their areas of research interest. The list below provides details of those who responded from Scotland.
University of Aberdeen
Special areas of research activity:
- Midwifery and maternity care
Dr Helen Bedford (h.bedford@abdn.ac.uk) - Palliative and end-of-life care
Dr Sally Lawton (slawton@nhs.net) - Women’s health/sexual health
Breda Anthony (g.b.anthony@abdn.ac.uk) - Substance misuse: management approaches and public engagement
Dr Catriona Matheson (c.i.math@abdn.ac.uk) - Medicines management
Prof Christine Bond (c.m.bond@abdn.ac.uk) - Pharmacy practice/medicines management
Dr Mags Watson (m.c.watson@abdn.ac.uk) - Symptoms management
Dr Alison Elliott (a.elliott@abdn.ac.uk) - Cancer: early diagnosis and survivorship care
Dr Peter Murchie (p.murchie@abdn.ac.uk) - Women’s health
Dr Lisa Iverson (l.iverson@abdn.ac.uk)
Website: University of Aberdeen
University of Dundee
Special areas of research activity
- Personalising care
Professor Martyn Jones (m.c.jones@dundee.ac.uk)
Our research programme is focused primarily on personalising care to enable health and well-being. It is designed to generate robust research evidence and to facilitate health professionals to apply evidence based care that is compassionate, tailored and responsive to individual need, and that is person-centred, safe and effective.
Subtheme 1: E-health - Lead, Dr Roma Maguire (r.z.maguire@dundee.ac.uk )
The focus of this cross-cutting theme is on the use of technology to empower individuals experiencing ill health, such as life limiting illnesses, and their carers, by facilitating e-health to enable the provision of information and real time communication between people and health care providers.
Subtheme 2: Inequalities - Lead, Dr Thilo Kroll (t.kroll@dundee.ac.uk )
This cross-cutting theme will focus on issues of particular concern relating to people who are generally more vulnerable to the risk of ill-health and/or compromised opportunities for well-being and social participation.
Website: University of Dundee
University of Edinburgh
Special areas of research activity
- Experience of health and illness
(Pain; unexplained symptoms; community and family nursing; health related quality of life; neonatal nursing, emotions and care; older people; complementary and alternative medicine; mental health issues; surgical nursing; intensive care nursing; transplantation nursing)
Dr. Graeme Smith (Graeme.Smith@ed.ac.uk) - Health Care: organisation and policy
(Smoking cessation; tobacco control; mental health promotion; workforce change; health care systems and change; professions in health care; health care ethics; public health nursing; teamwork; evidence-based practice; organisational culture; organisational learning in health care; leadership; student learning, student recruitment and selection, clinical education)
Dr. Sheila Rodgers (S.Rodgers@ed.ac.uk)
Website: University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Napier University
Special areas of research activity
- Nursing management of enduring conditions
Professor Thanos Karatzias, T.Karatzias@napier.ac.uk - Public health nursing
Professor Lawrie Elliott, l.elliott@napier.ac.uk
Website: Edinburgh Napier University
University of Glasgow
Special areas of research activity:
- Cancer and lymphoedema research group
Ann Marie Rice, email: annemarie.rice@glasgow.ac.uk and Margaret Sneddon, email: margaret.sneddon@glasgow.ac.uk - Rehabilitation research group
Lorna Paul, email: lorna.paul@glasgow.ac.uk - Education research group
Anna O'Neill, email: anna.o'neill@glasgow.ac.uk
Website: University of Glasgow
Glasgow Caledonian University
Special areas of research activity
- Health protection and improvement research group
Professor Paul Flowers (p.flowers@gcu.ac.uk)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/researchgroups/individualfamilycommunityhealthinterventions/ - Diabetes research group
Professor Ann Graham (ann.graham@gcu.ac.uk)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/researchgroups/diabetes/ - Later life research group
Professor Debbie Tolson (d.tolson@gcu.ac.uk)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/researchgroups/laterlife/ - Musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation research group
Professor Jim Woodburn (jim.woodburn@gcu.ac.uk)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/researchgroups/musculoskeletalandneurologicalrehabilitation/ - Active living research group
Professor Malcolm Granat (malcolm.granat@gcu.ac.uk)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/researchgroups/activeliving/ - Visual neuroscience research group
Dr Anita Simmers (anita.simmers@gcu.ac.uk)
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/researchgroups/visualneuroscience/
Website: Glasgow Caledonian University
Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit (NMAHP RU)
Special areas of research activity:
- NMAHP interventions programme
Programme Lead: Professor Suzanne Hagen, S.Hagen@gcu.ac.uk - Quality & delivery of care programme
Programme Lead: Professor Margaret Maxwell, margaret.maxwell@stir.ac.uk
Clinical themes: - Midwifery
Dr Helen Cheyne, h.l.cheyne@stir.ac.uk - Stroke
Dr Marian Brady, m.brady@gcal.ac.uk - Urogenital disorders
Professor Suzanne Hagen, S.Hagen@gcu.ac.uk - Mental health
Professor Margaret Maxwell, margaret.maxwell@stir.ac.uk - Pre-hospital emergency care
Dr Eddie Duncan, edward.duncan@stir.ac.uk
Website: NMAHP RU
Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
Special areas of research activity
- Alcohol and pubic health
Dr Jan Gill, (jgill@qmu.ac.uk) - Osteoporosis and moving and handling
Dr Margaret A C Smith, (msmith1@qmu.ac.uk) - Public health nursing
Dr Shona Cameron (scameron@qmu.ac.uk) - Dietetics and nutrition
Professor Isobel Davidson (idavidson@qmu.ac.uk )
Website: Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
Robert Gordon University
Special areas of research activity
- Evaluation research relating to educational practices
- Mental health education and practice
- Analysis of policy to practice developments
- Midwifery education and practice
- Community nursing
- Bereavement and bereavement care
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease
Website: Robert Gordon University
University of Stirling
Special areas of research activity
- Enhancing self care and self management group
Carol Bugge, carol.bugge@stir.ac.uk - Centre for public health and population health research (epidemiology, physical activity, drug and alcohol use, occupational and environmental health)
Andrew Watterson, a.e.watterson@stir.ac.uk; Ruth Jepson, ruth.jepson@stir.ac.uk - Cancer care research centre
Gill Hubbard, gill.hubbard@stir.ac.uk; and Liz Forbat, Elizabeth.forbat@stir.ac.uk - Maternal and child health research group
Helen Cheyne, helen.cheyne@stir.ac.uk - NMAHPRU
Brian Williams, Brian.williams@stir.ac.uk - Education development unit
Michelle Roxburgh, c.m.roxburgh@stir.ac.uk
Website: University of Stirling
University of the West of Scotland
Special areas of research activity
- Mental health
Prof Colin Martin, email: colin.martin@uws.ac.uk - Maternal & family health
Professor Ruth Deery, email: ruth.deery@uws.ac.uk - Older person's care
Prof Pauline Banks, email: pauline.banks@uws.ac.uk - Healthcare acquired infection, patient care improvement
Dr Gordon Mackay, email: w.mackay@uws.ac.uk
Website: University of the West of Scotland
Previous and non-responders
This is an annual review. For completeness, we list below the Universities who, whilst not responding to the 2012 survey, did respond to the 2011 survey. Any university without a link has not responded to this survey since its inception in 2008.
- University of Abertay Dundee
Website: UK Higher Education Institutions and their research interests