Niall is a Learning Disability Nurse, with 40 years of experience and has worked in a number of hospital and community roles in Scotland and England as a staff nurse, community charge nurse, research nurse, and worked as a reviewer and local coordinator examining the lives and deaths of people with a learning disability.

Niall became a Nursing Lecturer in 1996 and held several lecturing and senior management roles across Universities in Yorkshire covering all fields of nursing and the allied health professionals. This also included roles as the Head of Practice Education and Fitness to Practice lead for nursing and the allied health professionals.

Niall holds a BSc (Hons.) in Nursing and Education, a M.Sc. in Applied Behavioural Sciences and a Ph.D. that looked at the Social Construction of Knowledge in e-Portfolios.

Research Interests and Research Subject Specialisms:
Niall has academic interests in Learning Disability, Social Construction of Knowledge, research, and developing student’s knowledge through supervision.

Teaching specialisms;
Learning disability nursing, leadership and management, health inequalities, sociology.

Publications and Research:
2019- 2021
Learning from the Lives and Deaths of People with a Learning Disability (LeDeR) local reviewer and contributor to local and national report.

2012 - 2017
Completed a PhD on how electronic portfolios support the social construction of knowledge by healthcare students.

2011 - 2012
Lead of ‘follow on’ ALPS/SHA ePortfolio Network Project

2010 − 2011
Project Lead, UTL Funded Project, University of Huddersfield.
Joint Lead for ALPS/SHA Follow on project ePortfolio Network

2011
Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Leckey, J., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2011) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 8 (1), p. 2. ISSN 1743-6885

Rhodes, C., and Dew, N., (2011) A Collaborative Approach to Curriculum Development. In RCN Joint Education Forums’ 3rd international conference and exhibition,15 – 17 June 2011, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Dew, N (2011) ‘Lessons for all: Economics, and the health and social care of people with intellectual disabilities’. In: International Conference on Allied Health Sciences, 22-24 July 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2007-2010
Site Lead for ALPS/SHA ePortfolio Project

2010
Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Leckey, J., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2010) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 7 (1), pp. 3-4. ISSN 1743-6885

2008
Dew, N (2008) ‘Mobile Learning on the Campus and Beyond’. In: Teaching & Learning Conference 2008: Enhancing Learning: Technology by Design, 15th September 2008, University of Huddersfield

Dew, N (2008) ‘Student Interaction with Mobile Technologies’. In: ALT-C 2008 Pre-Conference Workshop, 8th September 2008, Leeds, UK

Dew, N (2008) ‘Initial reactions to the distribution of mobile devices to learning disability students for use in practice settings’. In: NET 2008, Tuesday 2 – Thursday 4 September 2008, Cambridge, UK

2007
Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Lister, T., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2007) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 4 (1), pp. 3-4. ISSN 1743-6885

2006
Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Lister, T., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2006) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 3 (2), p. 105. ISSN 1743-6885

Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Lister, T., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2006) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 3 (1), pp. 2-3. ISSN 1743-6885

2005
Dew, N (2005) Ethnography in Learning Disability Care, 6th International Conference in Advances in Qualitative Methods, Edmonton, Canada

Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Lister, T., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2005) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2 (2), p. 76. ISSN 1743-6885

Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Lister, T., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2005) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2 (1), p. 3. ISSN 1743-6885

2004
Curran, S., Dew, N., Halstead, J., Leach, C., Lister, T., Lucock, M., Minogue, V. and Shaw, S. (2004) ‘Editorial’ Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1 (1), p. 3. ISSN 1743-6885

1998 − 2000
Chair of Survey of Educational and Training Needs in Huddersfield Central Primary Care Group, Primary Care Research Group, University of Huddersfield (Huddersfield PCG’s Circulation)

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