Nicola Jane Roberts
nicola jane roberts

Dr Nicola Jane Roberts

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2476

  N.Roberts@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Dr Nicola Roberts is a health services researcher and an associate professor with an interest in the delivery of care for long term conditions.

Her research focuses on evaluating the delivery of care to those with respiratory illnesses and other long term conditions. Her current focus is on two main areas. Firstly, upskilling staff and students to deliver care. Recent work has focussed on how respiratory care is taught to pre-registration nursing and how confident graduating students are about their respiratory clinical skills.

The second area of focus is on improving delivery of respiratory care, recent work looks at how the educational component of pulmonary rehabilitation is delivered. She is a member of the pulmonary rehabilitation clinical statement group at the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and is a member of conference organising committee within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation assembly in the American Thoracic Society (ATS).
She works using a range of methodologies including mixed methods, quantitative and qualitative approaches and SLRs. Current doctoral supervising includes a range of projects including: the impact of anterior chest wall deformity in a paediatric population and the Functional Fitness MOT for the community-dwelling older adults in Thailand

She is a visiting senior lecturer at Kings College and an honorary research advisor in Long term conditions programme within NHS Lothian.

Nicola welcomes contact from potential collaborators and research students.

School

Themes

Research Areas

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • British Thoracic society Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinical statement group
  • Poster discussion chair - British Thoracic Society winter meeting – Poster discussion chair with Dr Frances Grudzinskas - Lessons from COVID-19
  • Session chair - Association of Respiratory Nurse specialists -Karen Heslop – Marshall and Nicola Roberts –Vaccinations –
  • American Thoracic Society PR Assembly Self-Management working group
  • Reviewer - HSJ Value awards Respiratory Care Initiative of the Year (2020, 2021)
  • Poster discussion chair - British Thoracic Society winter meeting Dec 2019 – Poster discussion chair with Professor Lorcan McGarvey Clinical studies in COPD: new evidence to guide practice
  • education and research subcommittee Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists
  • Member of the American Thoracic Society – outcomes advisory group (PR assembly)
  • Digital Strategy Working Group British Thoracic Society
  • Scotland lead education and career subcommittee - Association of Respiratory Nurse specialists
  • SIGN/BTS British guideline on the management of asthma - Asthma priorities: influencing the agenda

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Science and Research committee British Thoracic society

 

External Examining/Validations

  • PhD examiner - EXPLORING THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF LIVING WITH ADVANCED CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE ATTENDING PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES
  • PhD Examiner - Anxiety and Depression in Severe Asthma
  • PhD examination examiner - An Exploration of Employment Factors in Working Age People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Respiratory Researcher of the Year - Association of respiratory nurse specialists
  • Runner up poster ARNS conference – how respiratory disease is taught to nursing students
  • Runner up ARNS Annual conference - Engagement with self-management in patients with COPD attending community pulmonary rehabilitation using the patient activation measure

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant reviewer for various organisations including: MRC, NIHR HSR&D, NIHR Systematic review Programme, Health and Care Research Wales Research for Patient and Public Benefit, Chief Scientist Office -Health Services and Population Health Research Committee

 

Invited Speaker

  • Nursing leadership in the NHS post-COVID around Infectious Disease and Respiratory
  • Invited speaker - Advanced course in pulmonary rehabilitation - Institute for Lung Health Leicester - The educational component of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and measuring education needs
  • Cross parliamentary group meeting - Nurse's experiences during the pandemic
  • Invited speaker Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists
  • Scottish Pulmonary Rehabilitation Action Group annual conference
  • Scottish Pulmonary Rehabilitation Action Group annual conference
  • British Society of Rheumatology annual conference
  • Chair - clinical COPD session at the British Thoracic Society winter meeting
  • Non-Medical Prescribing in Respiratory Care
  • CePHaS Digital Apps workshop(NTU Singapore)
  • Scottish Pulmonary Rehabilitation Action Group annual conference
  • Invited Workshop –(with MR Partridge) Electronic asthma action plans Primary care Respiratory Society conference

 

Media Activity

  • #WorldCOPDDayBatonPass
  • EBN Blog - Are we making progress in helping the ‘missing millions’? Is collaboration and unifying voices the key to success?

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • American Thoracic Society
  • Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists
  • European Respiratory Society
  • British Thoracic Society

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Invited member of the pulmonary rehabilitation advisory group for NRAP

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Exploring the psychosocial impact of patients living with advanced COPD attending palliative care services, University of west of Scotland (PhD)
  • Anxiety and Depression in Severe Asthma, University of Newcastle (Australia) (PhD)
  • A mixed-methods approach to exploring employment in people with COPD Robert Gordon University (PhD)

 

Reviewing

  • Invited journal reviewer for CHEST (IF:5.854), European Respiratory Journal open research (IF: 1.0), Respiratory Medicine (IF:2.585), British Journal of Health Psychology, (IF: 2.895) Journal of COPD (IF:2.310), Trials Journal (IF:2.21), Journal of Aging and Physical Activity (IF:2.085), International Journal of Nursing Practice ( IF:0.881), Journal of Public Health (IF: 1.993), Heart & Lung - The Journal of Acute and Critical Care (IF: 1.73),World Allergy Organization Journal, Acta Dermato-Venereologica (IF: 3.65), npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine (IF:1.00), HRB Open Research

 

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M11 A scoping review exploring adoption of digital stress management resources for long-term health conditions – just useful for respiratory conditions?

Journal Article
Roberts, N., Gebreheat, G., MacLean, F., Connolly, F., Breen, C., & Porter-Armstrong, A. (2023)
M11 A scoping review exploring adoption of digital stress management resources for long-term health conditions – just useful for respiratory conditions?. Thorax, 78(Suppl 4), Article A265. https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2023-btsabstracts.400

Delivering asthma reviews during the Covid-19 pandemic

Journal Article
Watling Smith, J., & Roberts, N. J. (2023)
Delivering asthma reviews during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nursing Times, 119(1), 1-4
The Covid-19 pandemic meant that the delivery of asthma management in primary care changed virtually overnight, requiring the introduction of alternatives to face-to-face care...

Need and baseline for harmonising nursing education in respiratory care: preliminary results of a global survey

Journal Article
Šajnić, A., Kelly, C., Smith, S., Heslop-Marshall, K., Axelsson, M., Padilha, J. M., …Narsavage, G. (2022)
Need and baseline for harmonising nursing education in respiratory care: preliminary results of a global survey. Breathe, 18(3), Article 210172. https://doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0172-2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic confirmed that respiratory nurses are critical healthcare providers. Limited knowledge is available about appropriate education to prepare nu...

Factors influencing fatigue in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the second wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An online survey

Journal Article
Roberts, N. J., McAloney‐Kocaman, K., Lippiett, K., Ray, E., Welch, L., & Kelly, C. A. (in press)
Factors influencing fatigue in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the second wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An online survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16375
Aims and objectives This study explores UK nurses' experiences of working in a respiratory clinical area during the COVID-19 pandemic over winter 2020. Background During the ...

Self-management in chronic lung disease: what is missing?

Journal Article
Kelly, C., Heslop-Marshall, K., Jones, S., & Roberts, N. J. (2022)
Self-management in chronic lung disease: what is missing?. Breathe, 18(1), Article 210179. https://doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0179-2021
Self-management, as a strategy to support those living with chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma and COPD, has been widely advocated in guidelines and adopted in prac...

Using Telemedicine to Provide Education for the Symptomatic Patient with Chronic Respiratory Disease

Journal Article
Blackstock, F. C., & Roberts, N. J. (2021)
Using Telemedicine to Provide Education for the Symptomatic Patient with Chronic Respiratory Disease. Life, 11(12), Article 1317. https://doi.org/10.3390/life11121317
Technology-enabled learning, using computers, smartphones, and tablets, to educate patients on their respiratory disease and management has grown over the last decade. This sh...

Informing future nursing: An exploration of respiratory teaching in the pre-registration nurse curriculum

Journal Article
Roberts, N., Welch, L., Kelly, C., & Lippiett, K. (2021)
Informing future nursing: An exploration of respiratory teaching in the pre-registration nurse curriculum. Nurse Education in Practice, 57, Article 103254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103254
Aim/objective The aim is to examine and map the respiratory skills taught in the pre-registration nursing curriculum (2010). Background Respiratory assessment and care are fu...

Experiences of nurses caring for respiratory patients during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: an online survey study

Journal Article
Roberts, N. J., Kelly, C. A., Lippiett, K. A., Ray, E., & Welch, L. (2021)
Experiences of nurses caring for respiratory patients during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: an online survey study. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 8(1), Article e000987. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2021-000987
Background: Nurses have been at the forefront of the pandemic response, involved in extensive coordination of services, screening, vaccination and front-line work in respirato...

How is the education component of pulmonary rehabilitation delivered in practice––Is it patient‐centred?

Journal Article
Roberts, N. J., Kidd, L., Kirkwood, K., Cross, J., & Partridge, M. R. (2021)
How is the education component of pulmonary rehabilitation delivered in practice––Is it patient‐centred?. Clinical Respiratory Journal, 15(7), 835-842. https://doi.org/10.1111/crj.13371
Objectives Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) involves a significant component of education, but little has been published on what educational content is covered or how it is deliv...

Effects of Regular Physical Activity on the Immune System, Vaccination and Risk of Community-Acquired Infectious Disease in the General Population: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal Article
Chastin, S. F. M., Abaraogu, U., Bourgois, J. G., Dall, P. M., Darnborough, J., Duncan, E., …Hamer, M. (2021)
Effects of Regular Physical Activity on the Immune System, Vaccination and Risk of Community-Acquired Infectious Disease in the General Population: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Medicine, 51(8), 1673-1686. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01466-1
Background Regular physical activity is the prime modality for the prevention of numerous non-communicable diseases and has also been advocated for resilience against COVID-19...

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Understanding factors that influence the effectiveness of Learning Disability Nursing Interventions: A Realistic Evaluation (PhD)
  • Can risk stratification for Alcohol withdrawal reduce hospital admissions? (Prof Doctorate, passed)
  • An exploration of how, and in what circumstances, Scottish public health policy addresses inequalities in people with cardiovascular disease (CVD). (PhD, passed)
  • What are the influences on non-medical prescribing? A study using Q-methodology (Prof Doctorate, passed)
  • Social Prescribing of Music Interventions: Develop Understanding of the Implementation, the Evaluation, and the Impact of Socially Prescribed Music Intervention