Academic Schools
School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedic Practice
Academic Schools
School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedic Practice
As the main provider of nursing, midwifery and paramedic education in the North East of Scotland, we have a strong reputation for producing skilled, compassionate and professional graduates.
About the School
Our ongoing collaboration with our NHS and independent sector partners, service users and carers ensures that the delivery of education is contemporary, evidence-based and meets the needs of the health and social care services. We have strong links with our partners including the private sector, covering both hospital and community settings.
This strong partnership also allows us to offer a diverse range of high-quality placements throughout our undergraduate portfolio. We place a strong emphasis on linking theory to practice and our students will experience a breadth of health and social care settings and in a range of geographical locations. This will provide students with significant urban, remote and rural practice experience preparing them for a successful career after they graduate.
We provide dynamic and transformational learning, as well as teaching and research that makes a leading contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of local, national and global communities. A key part of learning and development is evolved through simulated practice learning and we use this method in a number of courses allowing students to experience real-life situations but in a realistic and safe environment. By using volunteer patients and a range of facilities across campus, students can practice their responses and actions when facing an emergency situation, preparing them for the future.
The wide range of education and development opportunities provided by our School combines challenge with the reward of doing something truly worthwhile with your career. Our education programmes are innovative in their approach and are delivered by academic team members who are all qualified practitioners meaning students will benefit from their vast and varied clinical expertise and research knowledge. We aim to help our students to become knowledgeable, influential, skilled, compassionate and ready to work within a rapidly changing health and social care environment.
Awards and Recognition
- We’re the first university in Scotland to receive the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative gold award. The accreditation is recognised as a mark of quality in student midwifery and health visiting programmes.
- 1st in Scotland for career prospects in Health Professions (Guardian University Guide 2024)
- 1st in Scotland for graduate prospects in Nursing: on track (Complete University Guide 2024)
- 2nd in Scotland for overall student satisfaction in Midwifery (National Student Survey 2023, excluding colleges, small, specialised and private providers)
Connect with us
School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedic Practice
The Ishbel Gordon Building
Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
Aberdeen
AB10 7QE
Email: snmpenquiries@rgu.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1224 262966
Facilities
We have purpose-built teaching and training facilities to provide you with a realistic and safe environment to practice your skills.
Our Clinical Skills Centre includes a home environment, two six bedded wards, a high dependency room, a children’s area and a variety of patient simulators which range from neonate to adult. The centre also comprises two new multi-purpose rooms designed for flexible teaching.
Team-working and inter-professional practice are top priorities in the many different roles within the allied health professions, ranging from Diagnostic Radiographers, Nurses and Midwives, to Pharmacists, Nutritionists, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists. Our inter-professional learning programme facilitates learning through multi-disciplinary teams of students which is a unique learning opportunity to undertake real cases and to work with other students of the health professions.
Our volunteer patient programme provide further opportunities to put skills into practice with individuals from the community.
All of these facilities provide professional-level training which will prepare you for a career in health care from the outset, and increase your perspective, experience and employability.
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Placements & Professional Links
Practice Learning
Placement experience is essential for producing graduates who are fit-for-purpose in rapidly changing health and social care environments. Our students undertake a variety of placements in locations throughout Scotland and, in some cases, abroad. These placements allow theory to be put into practice and essential skills are developed.
All of our undergraduate courses offer placements in practice, for up to 50% of the programme Course-specific information on placements is provided on the course page.
Affiliations and Industry Links
We have strong links with health and social care clinical partners, including the private sector, across the North and North East of Scotland covering both hospital and community settings. Our developing collaboration with service users and carers ensures that our courses are contemporary, evidence-based, and meet the needs of providers and users of health and social care services in a modern context.
We are proud to be associated with the following leading organisations, institutions and professional bodies.
Accreditations
The Nursing and Midwifery Council exists to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the UK public. It is responsible for registering all nurses and midwives, and setting the standards of education, training and conduct that nurses and midwives need to deliver high quality healthcare.
HCPC is a regulator which was set up to protect the public by keeping a register of health professionals who meet the Council’s standards for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health.
The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.
Research
We have a vibrant community of postgraduate research students and there are opportunities to study for Research Masters, PhD and Professional Doctorates in topics related to our main themes.
We welcome enquiries about studying here. Please contact Associate Professor, Aileen Grant, for further information and a copy of our research brochure.
Our Research Aims and Themes
Our Research aim is to engage with key partners to develop, deliver and disseminate high quality research that is of value to society, those using health and social care services, and the professions of nursing, midwifery and paramedic practice.
Our vision is to be recognised for research that addresses the health and wellbeing of children, families, older people and the disadvantaged by undertaking impactful, innovative and interdisciplinary research to inform policy and practice.
Our research is encompassed within three overarching themes:
Organisation and delivery of health care
- Digital health
- Palliative care
- Integrated care
Health inequalities
- Food insecurity
- Poverty and social disadvantage
- Wider determinants of health and the role of nurses and midwives in relation to those.
Health and wellbeing across the lifespan
- Maternal, child and family health
- Long-term conditions and multi-morbidity
- Health ageing (Gerontology, ageing and frailty)
- Mental health and wellbeing
- End of life care.
Our Staff and Expertise
Our researchers and research supervisors undertake their studies within a wide range of theoretical frameworks and models relating to the development of policy and practice that takes account of: lived experiences of health and social issues, health and social care use, and, service delivery by the nursing, midwifery and paramedic professions, the evaluation of complex interventions and implementation in practice.
We have research expertise in a range of methodologies including mixed methods, systematic literature reviews, scoping and mapping studies, quantitative and qualitative research, feasibility and pilot studies moving towards large scale RCTs, if and where appropriate.
Ethics
All research conducted in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice requires school ethical agreement to protect volunteer’s interests and to ensure the highest standards are adhered to.
Recent Doctoral Graduates
- Dr Abodunrin Aminu: Horizon 2020 EuroAgeism Putting Ageism in Context: Community vs. Long-Term Care Institutions among the Oldest Old.
- Dr Kevin Forbes: The mental health and adjustment of a prospective cohort of UK service personnel admitted to DMRC: Headley Court and their partners following combat-related traumatic amputation sustained during military operations in Afghanistan (OP HERRICK) between 2009 and 2011.
- Dr Louise Henderson: Experiences and perceptions of patients and their families in accessing integrated health and social care, within a primary care setting of NHS Grampian, to meeting their health and wellbeing needs.
- Jo Lironi: MRes - Acceptability of a wearable real-time neonatal device to enable home monitoring and treatment of jaundice for new born babies from a rural setting.
- Dr Kate Goodhand: Use of simulation with healthcare students
- Dr Neil Johnson: Evidence based practice in nursing care/education
- Dr Holly Lear: The preparedness of nursing students studying abroad to provide care in low human development countries
- Dr Mary McCallum: Supported self-management for people living with Long Term Conditions
Key contacts
- Professor Catriona Kennedy: Associate Dean for Research
- Professor Flora Douglas: Professor of Public Health
- Associate Professor Aileen Grant: Senior Research Fellow, Convenor of Ethics Committee, Lead for Public and patient involvement and Post Graduate Research Degrees Co-ordinator
- Heather Nicolson: Administrator for research
Our Research Staff
Staff
Our staff have a breadth of experience in teaching and professional practice, most staff also have research expertise in their subject area.
Nick Adams
Research Fellow B
Janyne Afseth
Principal Lecturer
Simon Alberici
Associate Lecturer
Elaine Allan
Lecturer
Katie Anderson
Lecturer
Kerry Anderson
Associate Lecturer
Denise Arkley
Course Administrator
Fiona Baguley
Lecturer
Heather Bain
Visiting Senior Lecturer
Tammy Bain
Course Administrator
Amber Balkwill
Honorary Lecturer
William Ball
Chancellor's Fellow
Debbie Banks
Principal Lecturer
Hannah Barrie
Associate Lecturer
Sarah Barrows
Lecturer
Keiran Bellis
Lecturer
Emma Bish
Associate Lecturer
Beccy Bray
Associate Administrator
James Brogan
Principal Lecturer
Nicola Brown
Lecturer
Angela Bruce
Associate Lecturer
Lynda Bruce
Lecturer
Stuart Burnett
Lecturer
Danielle Campbell
Assistant Administrator
Jason Carrigan
Associate Lecturer
Fiona Cook
Associate Lecturer
Maureen Cooper
Assistant Administrator
Liz Cotrel-Gibbons
Associate Lecturer
Jennifer Cowie
Lecturer
Susan Crowther
Visiting Professor
Fiona Culligan
Lecturer
Stephanie Da Silva
Associate Lecturer
Ela Danilowska
Assistant Administrator
Susan Dawkes
Dean
Muriel Dempsie
Lecturer
Nisha Dominic
Associate Lecturer
Pauline Donaldson
Lecturer
Claire Doran
Associate Lecturer
Renate Dorfi
Assistant Administrator
Flora Douglas
Professor
Melissa Doyle
Lecturer
Michelle Duncan
Lecturer
Rosa Eisenberg
Lecturer
Jennifer Elliott
Lecturer
Jane Ewen
Visiting Senior Lecturer
Cath Fairley
Associate Administrator
Isla Fairley
Principal Lecturer
Vicki Falls
Lecturer
Rebekah Farquharson
Lecturer
Gill Fenwick
Lecturer
James Ferguson
Visiting Professor
Colin Fisher
Lecturer
Els Freshwater
Lecturer
Robert Gardiner
Associate Lecturer
Fiona Gibb
Associate Lecturer
Shirley Gibb
Associate Lecturer
Lindsey Gillespie
Lecturer
Lorna Gordon
Finance Administrator
Paul Gowens
Visiting Professor
Aileen Grant
Associate Professor
Jacqueline Harley
Associate Lecturer
Bruce Harper-Ovstebo
Principal Lecturer
Jenni Haxton
Associate Lecturer
Emma Hay-Higgins
Lecturer
Helen Henderson
Principal Lecturer
Louise Henderson
Visiting Research Fellow
Miles Hill
Associate Lecturer
Rachel Hitchcock
Associate Lecturer
Jill Howatt
Administrative Team Lead (Practice Lrng)
Sarah Humphrey
Principal Lecturer
Emma Hunter
Research Fellow
Billy Jackson
Lecturer
Neil Johnson
Associate Dean for ADSE
Arlene Jopp
Course Administrator - Post Registration
Moyra Journeaux
Associate Lecturer
Simbarashe Kashiri
Associate Lecturer
Catriona Kennedy
Associate Dean for Research
Lisa Kidd
Visiting Reader
Julia Kirkham
Associate Lecturer
Pamela Kirkpatrick
Principal Lecturer
Angela Kydd
Visiting Professor
Lauren Kydd
Lecturer
Kirsty Lamond
Associate Lecturer
Andy Lancaster
Lecturer
Annie Lau
Associate Lecturer
Christine Lauterbach
School Operations Manager
Andrea Lawrie
Lecturer
Sharleane Le Heuze
Associate Lecturer
Siew Lee
Lecturer
Richard Leece
Lecturer
Jackie Leith
Principal Lecturer
Julie Lempriere
Associate Lecturer
Jo Lironi
Lecturer
Chris Littlejohn
Visiting Reader
Fiona Logie
Clinical Skills Centre Manager
Charlie Loweth
Lecturer
Jonathan Lucas
Course Administrator
Errol Luders
Online Learning Developer
Una Lyon
Associate Lecturer
Emma MacIver
Research Fellow A
Graham Macaulay
Lecturer
Jonathan Macdonald
Technician
Colin Macduff
Visiting Reader
Scott Macpherson
Lecturer
Jane Mair
Lecturer
Dianne Malcolm
Assistant Administrator
Gillian Martin
Associate Lecturer
Kate Martin
Associate Lecturer
Sheelagh Martindale
Associate Dean for ESCD
Sarah Maver
Lecturer
Natalie McDonald
Lecturer
Anne-Marie McGrath
Simulation & Clinical Skill Facilitator
Alison McIntosh
Lecturer
Audrey McIvor
Assistant Administrator
Lynn McKenzie
School Administration Co-ordinator
Carol-Ann McKerron
Assistant Administrator
Hazel McWhinnie
Associate Lecturer
Jaimie Middleton
Lecturer
Kira Milne
Lecturer
Emily Miscioscia
Associate Lecturer
Sheena Moffat
Research Assistant
Alison Moggach
Associate Lecturer
Ciara Moloney
Lecturer
Libby Morley-Hassanali
Associate Lecturer
Claire Morphy
Lecturer
Natalie Morrison
Associate Lecturer
Simon Nichols
Senior Research Fellow
Heather Nicolson
Senior Clerical Assistant
Justine Norton
Lecturer
Olubunmi Okhuoya
Associate Lecturer
Rahul Oza
Online Learning Developer
Zoi Papadatou
Lecturer
Iain Parkin
Lecturer
Catherine Paterson
Visiting Senior Lecturer
Stacey Paterson
Lecturer
Nikki Patterson
Course Administrator
Hollie Posthill
Associate Lecturer
Charlotte Primeau
Visiting Research Fellow
Keri Ratter
Associate Lecturer
Pam Rebecca
Practice Learning Administrator
Kelly Reid
Lecturer
Natasha Richards
Associate Lecturer
Sarah Riddell
Lecturer
Billy Ridler
Associate Lecturer
Anne-Louise Robertson
Associate Lecturer
Jill Robertson
Lecturer
Kevin Robertson
Clinical Skills Centre Assistant
Edel Roddy
Honorary Lecturer
Sarah Rose
Associate Lecturer
Sian Roughton
Associate Lecturer
Claire Savage
Associate Lecturer
Jane Sedgwick-Muller
Associate Lecturer
Anna Sharkey
Assistant Administrator
Cathy Sharp
Honorary Professor
Cameron Smith
Lecturer
Audrey Stephen
Lecturer
Wendy Stevens
Associate Lecturer
Lynne Strachan
Assistant Administrator
Cal Stuart
Lecturer
Matthew Sunter
Lecturer
Mo Tabib
Lecturer
Haf Thomas
Associate Administrator
Lesley Thomson
School Administration Team Lead
Donald Todd
Principal Lecturer
Nicola Torrance
Senior Research Fellow
Marina Veitch
Administrator
Maria Velo Higueras
Lecturer
Leonora Walker
Associate Lecturer
Cerys Wallace
Lecturer
Emma Wallace
Course Administrator
Katrina Whittingham
Lecturer
Jill Will
Lecturer
Debbie Wilson
Lecturer
Fiona Work
Teaching Excellence Fellow
Dale Youngs
Simulation & Clinical Skill Facilitator
To me it wasn’t just about securing a place; it was about joining a community that understood the essence of nursing and inspired me to excel in my journey.
News
Published: Friday 26 April 2024
Mental Health lecturer, Scott Macpherson, highlights how an opportunity exists to help steer mental health nursing in a positive direction and to encourage more people into the profession...
News
Published: Thursday 25 April 2024
Robert Gordon University is to host a Mental Health Nursing Showcase to encourage more people from the North East into the profession.
Event
Starts: Wednesday 01 May 2024
Are you considering your next steps and want to explore your options in Nursing? Come along to our Mental Health Nursing Showcase Experience to find out more.