Nicola Ring

Prof Nicola Ring

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N.Ring@napier.ac.uk

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Nicola is a qualified nurse (adult and children) and health visitor. After working in all these areas she moved into NHS healthcare management working in various clinical effectiveness/governance posts at local and national level.

Nicola started her academic career in 2002 and has since worked on adult and child nursing pre-registration programmes. She has extensive experience of developing health researchers through post-graduate module and programme leadership as well as supervision of masters and doctoral students. Nicola is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is an experienced researcher and principal investigator. Her key research focus is on the (self-) management of long-term conditions in children and adults. Her PhD (2013) was a critical analysis of evidence based practice – the case of asthma action plans. Increasingly her research focuses on the mental health and well-being of children and young people.

Her methodological expertise is in qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography. She was a member of the eMERGe team which secured NIHR funding to develop innovative international guidance aimed at improving transparency and quality of meta-ethnography reporting.

Nicola is passionate about the social history of nursing and has expert knowledge of the topic. She strongly believes that understanding the profession's past including issues of gender, power, race and ethnicity helps nurses better understand contemporary issues affecting health care practice and policy.

Nicola welcomes contact from potential collaborators and research students.

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Developing a reporting guideline to improve meta-ethnography in health research: the eMERGe mixed-methods study

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Cunningham, M., France, E. F., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A., Roberts, R. J., …Noyes, J. (2019)

Developing a reporting guideline to improve meta-ethnography in health research: the eMERGe mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(4), 1-116. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr07040

Background Meta-ethnography is a commonly used methodology for qualitative evidence synthesis. Research has identified that the quality of reporting of published meta-ethnogra...

A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases

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France, E. F., Uny, I., Ring, N., Turley, R. L., Maxwell, M., Duncan, E. A. S., …Noyes, J. (2019)

A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 19, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0670-7

Background: Decision making in health and social care requires robust syntheses of both quantitative and qualitative evidence. Meta-ethnography is a seven-phase methodology fo...

The ‘vicious cycle’ of personalised asthma action plan implementation in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and health professionals’ views

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Ring, N., Booth, H., Wilson, C., Hoskins, G., Pinnock, H., Sheikh, A., & Jepson, R. (2015)

The ‘vicious cycle’ of personalised asthma action plan implementation in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and health professionals’ views. BMC family practice, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0352-4

Background: Personal asthma action plans (PAAPs) have been guideline recommended for years, but consistently under-issued by health professionals and under-utilised by patient...

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Previous Post Grad projects

Development of a theory- and evidence-informed behaviour change intervention to promote appropriate antibiotic use in acute hospitals - Dr Gosha Wojcik, Dr Claire Kydonaki, Dr Brian Williams, Prof Nicola Ring (Additional Supervisor), Prof Jill Stavert

Doctorate

2016 to 2022

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

The views and experience of children and young people who have used mental health support services following self-harm or suicidal behaviours
Perspectives on the role of hospital nurses in paediatric asthma management in Saudi Arabia: an extended case study method in comparative settings to explore individual, institutional and socio-cultural factors

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Developing a reporting guideline to improve meta-ethnography in health research: the eMERGe mixed-methods study

A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance

Developing meta-ethnography reporting guidance for research and practice

eMERGe Dr Nicola Ring

Protocol-developing meta-ethnography reporting guidelines (eMERGe).

The ‘vicious cycle’ of personalised asthma action plan implementation in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and health professionals’ views

Co-creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit to enable pre-registration nursing students acquire the skills and knowledge to enable individuals with learning disabilities to self man...

Scotland's Witches Voices - a follow up in depth study of two cases of significant interest in early nursing history - Christian Saidler (1597) and Bartie Patersoune (1607)

'Witches' stories: persecuted for helping others: documentary analysis of early midwives and nurses as reported within the Scottish Witchcraft Survey database

Developing meta-ethnography reporting guidelines and the standards for research

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

Current Post Grad projects

Developing evidence informed bereavement support for young people who has lost a family or friend to suicide - Alpha Zhang, Prof Nicola Ring (Director Of Studies), Prof Nadine Dougall, Dr Cari Malcolm, Dr Peter Hillen

How does women's paid work affect their infant feeding decisions and behaviours? - Mrs Joanne Ette, Dr Cari Malcolm, Dr Rhona McInnes, Prof Nicola Ring (Additional Supervisor), Dr Sonya MacVicar

Exploration and development of self-management strategies for people with intellectual disabilities who have asthma - Louise Allan, Dr Lisa O'Leary, Prof Nicola Ring (Second Supervisor), Prof Nicola Ring (Second Supervisor), Dr Anna Bak-Klimek

An exploration of the experience of caring for a baby, child, or young person (BCYP) from the South Asian community with a life limiting condition, living within Central Scotland. - Dr Fariel Rahman, Prof Nicola Ring (Second Supervisor), Dr Brian Williams, Dr Jennifer Murray

Safety planning interventions for use in suicide prevention: Perspectives of care experienced young people and their key supporters on this approach - Susan Abbott-Smith, Prof Nadine Dougall, Prof Nicola Ring (Second Supervisor), Dr Jill Davey, Dr Stephen Smith

Promoting teaching that is inclusive of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ (LGBTQ+) issues - Rachel Davidson-Welch, Dr Sam Illingworth, Dr Julia Sterman, Dr Anna Bak-Klimek, Prof Nicola Ring

A clinical decision-making support system (CDSS) application for guiding staff to employ evidence-based approaches to prevent, assess, and manage delirium in ICU: Co-design methodology - Ms Devi Kandel, Prof Cathal Breen, Dr Amani Al Bayrakdar, Prof Nicola Ring

How do student and early career learning disability nurses develop their sense of professional identity and belonging within practice environments, and how can this influence post-registration employment. - Mr Sam Abdulla, Prof Alison Machin, Dr Connie McLuckie, Prof Nicola Ring

Previous Post Grad projects

Development of a theory- and evidence-informed behaviour change intervention to promote appropriate antibiotic use in acute hospitals - Dr Gosha Wojcik, Dr Claire Kydonaki, Dr Brian Williams, Prof Nicola Ring (Additional Supervisor), Prof Jill Stavert

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions