Email: N.M.Andrews@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 0539
As a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences and an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow, Nicola's work focuses on enhancing care of older people with frailty. Her research interests particularly focus on those living in care homes and extra-care housing settings and building research capacity in these settings.
Nicola works as an Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow (40%), leading a range of knowledge mobilisation activities in care home and home care settings. As a Senior Research Fellow (60%), Nicola works in the Ageing & Dementia theme of ARC Wessex on the CAtCH-NET study, investigating community alternatives to acute hospital admission for older people with frailty, and is co-lead investigator on the Marie Curie funded ActMed-VW study, investigating health care professionals' experiences of accessing medication for patients on virtual wards who are in their last year of life.
Nicola is a registered nurse, and her research builds on a productive clinical career in the NHS and independent hospices, including ten years supporting quality improvement in care homes and home care settings. Having completed her PhD in 2021, she has progressed her career in applied research focused on ageing and dementia in the School of Health Sciences and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex. Her PhD was an ethnography of multi-professional involvement in the advance care planning process in two nursing homes. Through her post-doctoral research activity, she has enhanced her research leadership and methodological expertise, including mixed methods and creative approaches, and developed collaborations with care home and extra-care housing providers, which is underpinning development of a practitioner academic role in these settings.