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Professor Lisa Kidd

Professor of Nursing

Department of Nursing and Community Health

Lisa Kidd is a Professor of Nursing at the School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University. Lisa is a member of the Living with Stroke and other long-term Neurological Conditions (SYNERGY).

Lisa’s programme of funded research focuses on life after stroke, particularly on the implementation of supported self-management in stroke care. Lisa is particularly interested in qualitative and realist methodologies. Her current projects include a Stroke Association-funded realist evaluation study to understand how supported self-management works, for whom, and why in the context of community rehabilitation services across Scotland.

Lisa is an experienced doctoral supervisor and holds several external leadership roles, including the current Chair of the UK Stroke Forum.  Lisa is a committee member of the Scottish Stroke Nurse Forum, a founding member of the European Life After Stroke Forum, a member of the Scottish Government’s Cross Party Group for Stroke and a Trustee of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland. Lisa is also an Associate Editor for the Evidence-Based Nursing journal.

Her research interests include stroke, supported self-management, qualitative research, realist research, and patient and public engagement.