Dr Nicola Andrew

Senior Lecturer

Department: Health and Community Sciences

T: +44 (0)141 331 8320
E: n.andrew@gcu.ac.uk

Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer (Nursing) in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University with a role focus on Learning and Teaching. Currently I act as the Departmental Lead for Learning, Teaching and Quality Lead (LTQL) and School Lead for the School of Health and Life Sciences Education Research Group (SERG).

Specialism’s & Interests

• Academic practice and identity
• The student experience and interprofessional education
• Blended Learning

Professional Memberships & Activities

• FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)

Current Research

• Articulation and transition into Higher Education
• Academic identities

Selected Consulting Projects

• Faculdade de Psicolologia e deiencias da Educacao da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education; University of Porto; Portugal) Project:“Initial training of helping professionals and identities of trainers: a study of teaching and nursing” funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology

Selected Publications

• McKendry, S., McKay, G., Boyd, V., Andrew, N. 2011. “The route in to the academy: the liminal state of nursing and the construction professions?” Teaching in Higher Education, DOI;10.1080/13562517.2011.611867. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2011.611867
• Andrew, N., Robb, Y., Ferguson, D., Brown, J., 2011. “Show us you know us’: using the senses framework to support the professional development of pre- registration nursing students” Nurse Education in Practice 11, 356-359.http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/155/
• Andrew, N., Robb, Y. 2011 “The duality of professional practice in nursing: academics for the 21st century” Nurse Education Today 31, 429-433.http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/98
• McKendry, S., Boyd, V., Andrew, N. 2010. “Clear Ahead? Researching the experiences of late application students entering undergraduate nursing programmes”, Widening Participation & Lifelong Learning. 12 (1), 18-29. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/99/
• Andrew, N., 2010. “Turning Nurses into Teachers: A Work Based Learning Approach to the Development of Professional Identity in Teaching” (30). Part V: Professional Development and In-Service Education (in) Problems and Prospects in Higher Education. Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos and Nicholas Pappas, ISBN: 978-960-6672-89-7,454.
• Currie, K., Andrew, N., Proudfoot, L. 2010. "Research and Scholarly activity". Chapter 30 in A. McIntosh, J. Gidman & E. Mason-Whitehead (Ed). Key Concepts in Health Care Education Sage. London.
• Andrew, N., Ferguson, D., Wilkie, G., Simpson, L. 2009. “Developing professional identity in nursing academics: the role of communities of practice” Nurse Education Today 29, 607-611. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/100
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C., Reid, G., Corcoran, T. 2009. “Greater than the sum of its parts: transition into the first year of undergraduate nursing”. Nurse Education in Practice, 9, 13-21. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/101
• Andrew, N., Ferguson, D. 2008. “Constructing communities for learning in nursing”. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 5(1) art. 24. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/104
• Andrew, N., Tolson, D., Ferguson, D. 2008. “Building on Wenger: communities of practice in nursing”. Nurse Education Today, 28(2):246-252. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/105
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C., Reid, G., Corcoran, T. 2007. “Supporting students in the first year of an undergraduate nursing programme: The Enhance Project”. Practice and Evidence of Scholarship and Learning in Higher Education, 2(2) 128-150. http://www.pestlhe.org.uk/index.php/pestlhe/article/view/34/130.
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C., Reid, G. 2007. “The Enhance Project: Supporting Academic Practice Development in the First Year of Learning in Higher Education”, ISBN - 978-1-905788-421-5. Available from: escalate.ac.uk/downloads/3852.pdf 

Presentations

Keynote

• Andrew, N. 2012 ‘Initial training of helping professionals and identities of trainers: a study of teaching and nursing” Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education; University of Porto, Portugal. International Conference funded by thePortuguese Foundation for Science andTechnology (March 2012).
• Andrew, N., Mayne. W. 2011. “Higher/Further Education Nursing Community of Practice”. GGAP HUB, University of Abertay, Dundee.
• Andrew, N., Mayne. W. 2011. “Higher/Further Education Nursing Community of Practice”. Greater Glasgow Articulation Partnership, Glasgow Caledonian University.
• Andrew, N., Ferguson, D. 2009. “Enhancing Professional Practice: a Glasgow Caledonian University School of Health Perspective”Glasgow University SoTLHE Society (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Society) University of Glasgow.
• Andrew, N.2008. “Communities of practice: creating sustainable virtual learning environments to support academic development” ELAS (Effective Learning Society) online teaching and learning. Scot-ELAS Symposium.
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C. 2008 “The Enhance Project” SWAPWest at SWAP (Scottish WiderAccess Project) National Nurse Forum.
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C. 2007. “The Enhance Project: an integrated programme of support for health students, in the first year of university” Glasgow University SoTLHE Society (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Society University of Glasgow.

Peer Reviewed

• Mayne. W., Andrew, N., Leitch, A. 2011. “Policy, partnership and Practice: an HE/FE Community of Practice (CoP)”. Articulation for All Conference: Delivering a Planned Articulation System, Glasgow Caledonian University.
• Mayne. W., Andrew, N., Leitch, A., Malone, M. 2011. ‘There’s more that unites us than divides us’: An HE/FE Community ofPractice (CoP). QAA (Scotland) 8thAnnual Enhancement Themes Conference, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
• Andrew, N. 2010. “Working close to practice’: academics for the 21st century” net 2010 –21st Annual International Participative Conference Tuesday 7th-Thursday 9th September 2010, University of Cambridge. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/106
• Andrew, N. 2010. “Clinical imprinting: promoting excellence in undergraduate nursing education’” net 2010–21st Annual International Participative Conference Tuesday 7th-Thursday 9th September 2010 University of Cambridge. http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/health/107
• Andrew, N. 2010. “Where do we go from here? “Exploring the development of academic identity in nursing” Academic Identities for the 21st Century, 2nd International Conference 16th-18th June 2010, University of Strathclyde.
• Boyd, V., McKendry, S., Andrew, N., Ferguson, D. 2010. “Constructing the graduate: developing the academic preparedness of health students”. 7th Annual Enhancement Themes Conference, Herriot-Watt University.
• Andrew, N. 2009 “Nursing leadership: what is the shape of it now?” RCN Joint Education Forums' 2nd International Conference and Exhibition, Glasgow.
• Andrew, N., Reid, G., Boyd, V., McKendry, S. 2009. “Can you ‘future-proof’ the first year?” 6th QAA Enhancement Themes Annual Conference, Edinburgh.
• Andrew, N., McKendry, S., Boyd, V., Jenner, R. 2009. “So what is an Academic Development Tutor? An enhancement model for student engagement”, Sparqs National Conference on Student Involvement, Edinburgh.
• Andrew, N., Boyd, V., McKendry, S., Reid, G. 2008. “Enhancing the Year One Student Experience”, Supporting Nursing and Midwifery Student Recruitment, Selection and Retention: Scottish Government Conference, Clydebank.
• Andrew, N., Wilkie G. 2008. “Crossing the Divide: The Development of Professional Identity in Teaching”. Nurse Education Tomorrow (net) 19th Annual International Participative Conference, Education in Healthcare, University of Cambridge.
• Andrew, N., Ferguson, D. 2008. “Turning Nurses into Teachers: A Work Based Learning Approach to the Development of Professional Identity in Teaching”. 10th international Conference on Education, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens.
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C. 2007. “The Enhance Project: promoting integration in the first year of university based nursing programmes” Nurse Education Tomorrow (net) 18th Annual International Participative Conference, Education in Healthcare, University of Cambridge.
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C. 2007 “The enhance project: promoting integration in the first year of university based nursing programmes” NET 18th International Participative Conference University of Cambridge.
• Andrew, N. 2007).”Communities of practice: a model for career long work based learning” CRLL International Conference, University of Stirling.
• Andrew, N., Reid, G., Corcoran, T., McGuinness, C. 2007. “Achieving integrated scholarship in the first year of learning”. CRLL International Conference, University of Stirling.
• Andrew, N., McGuinness, C., Reid, G. 2006.”The Enhance Project: Supporting Learning at Level 1”. First Year Experience in Continuing Education, International Conference, University of Stirling/Escalate.
• Andrew, N., Wilkie, G. 2006 “Developing academic practice”. Strength in partnership: Education for Contemporary Health Care. NHS Education for Scotland (NES), Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Conference.

Professional Activities

Journal Reviewer

• Nurse Education Today
• International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
• Reviewer: Higher Education Academy