Angela Kydd is a Clinical Professor in Nursing at Robert Gordon University. Her appointment is a joint one with NHS Grampian.
She is a qualified general and mental health nurse, and worked for 10 years in a clinical capacity specialising in the care of older people. She worked at the University of the West of Scotland from 1995-2015 and during this time she has designed and delivered modules at degree, honours and master’s level in gerontology. She has also designed a gerontology programme for the World Health Organisation and has taught in Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and Slovenia.
For six years she was programme leader for the nurse specialist in gerontological nursing honours course and for three years was Pricipal Investigator and programme manager for an Erasmus Intensive Programme. She was programme lead for three years for an Overseas Nursing Programme and has been a co-ordinator of one of the on-line degree research modules. She has also designed and delivered workshops on aspects of best practice for the care of older people for hospitals, NHS 24 and care homes.
Since 2005, she has been involved in teaching, evaluation and research. One evaluation centred on the effectiveness of a rapid response team in a Scottish Health Board and one for Alzheimer’s Scotland on evaluating the process of a training for trainers programme on palliative care and dementia. Her research has included work with colleagues in Sweden on health care beliefs of women with diabetes and work with colleagues from the US, Germany, Japan, Slovenia and Sweden on attitudes towards health care professionals who work with older people. She has been PI on two projects working with three care homes on designing a culture of care within the homes.
Angela has run a gerontology interest group for 11 years in the Paisley campus and has recently started one in the Hamilton campus. This is a multi-professional group who meet three times a year to share good practice in the care and well being of older people. She has started an Ageing Research Network at Robert Gordon University,
Angela’s PhD study, which was completed in 2006, was on the policy and practice of older people classed as ‘delayed discharges’. She has a keen interest in frail older people and has developed a master’s module in frailty which she ran from June 2015 - December 2016 (when she changed her post).
Angela is an active member of the Sigma Theta Tau organisation, member of the British Society of Gerontology (Scotland) and Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
She was an evaluator for an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Health and Social Care and has an active interest in transcultural teaching and learning. From 2011-2015 she was an external evaluator for an Erasmus Mundus Master Programme.
She is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Angela joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery at RGU and NHS Grampian in July 2018. She is a lead partner in the UK for an Horizon 2020 project 'EuroAgeism'. On this project she has two Early Stage Researchers studying aspects of ageism at doctoral level. She is also director of studies for a student exploring activity opportunities for care home residents and she has supervised 6 doctoral students to completion.
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