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Catriona is a community (District) nurse by background and is currently the Associate Dean for Research and the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland Professor of Community Nursing in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice at Robert Gordon University. She is the Director for My 51±¾É« Life Scotland (MHL). MHL is part of a social movement which strives for a world where care settings are beautiful places to live, work, die and visit. MHL provides leadership and practice development courses and undertakes research.

Catriona has a lengthy career spanning clinical practice, education, and research. As a community nurse her teaching and research interests have focussed on the lived experiences of people and communities. She has led and contributed to a range of projects with a particular focus around managing long term conditions, cancer, and end of life palliative care. Projects have involved working with people experiencing illness, family/support persons and health and social care staff.

Catriona is an experienced qualitative researcher and has expertise in a wide range of approaches to data collection and analysis. This includes evaluation and interpretive description approaches, ethnography, action research and appreciative inquiry. She is also an expert in evidence synthesis and has led and contributed to numerous systematic reviews. Catriona has an extensive publication profile across a range of fields and high impact Journals. Catriona’s publications and research outputs have been submitted to the Research Excellence Framework in the United Kingdom in 2008, 2014 and 2021.