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70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow Caledonian University
G4 0BA Glasgow
United Kingdom
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Nicola is an early career research fellow in Health Economics. She gained her master's in Economic Evaluation for Healthcare Technology Assessment from the University of York in 2019 and completed her PhD in Management Science in 2023 as a JARA scholar with partial funding from the Scottish Government.
She is also an established consultant physician specialising in acute and internal medicine, with 25 years of experience delivering clinical care in the UK.
Her PhD explored the effectiveness of remote senior decision-making in urgent care resource allocation. This was an extensive mixed methods study that used ethnography to inform a hybrid computer simulation model (agent-based and discrete event simulation). The model served as a platform for evaluating national policy on early decision-making.
She maintains her interest in mixed methods research and the use of dynamic simulation modelling. Her current research interests are service design and delivery, rural population health, chronic health care, and the use of simulation modelling in evaluation.
Prior to working in the Yunus Centre, Nicola contributed to NHS Scotland’s Unscheduled Care Directorate as a working group participant, researcher, and co-author of National guidelines. She was part of an award-winning collaboration that developed real-time critical care resource need predictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has provided both unpaid and paid advisory services for public service bodies in the UK.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Management Science, PhD, University of Strathclyde
Oct 2018 → Apr 2024
Award Date: 22 Jan 2024
Business Studies, MRes - Research Methodology for Business & Management, University of Strathclyde
2018 → 2019
Award Date: 21 Jun 2019
Economic Evaluation for Healthcare Technology Assessment, MSc, University of York
2015 → 2018
Award Date: 22 Jun 2018
Acute & Internal Medicine, CCT (completion of consultant training), Joint Royal Colleges of Physician Training Board (UK)
2005 → 2009
Award Date: 21 Jul 2009
Clinical Teaching, Post-graduate certificate, University of Leeds
2007 → 2008
Award Date: 24 Jun 2008
Medicine, MRCP (Royal College of Physicians Membership examination), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Award Date: 20 Jul 2004
Medicine, MBChB, University of Dundee
1994 → 1999
Award Date: 22 Jun 1999
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
Irvine, N. (Recipient), van Der Meer, R. (Recipient), Sinha, C. (Recipient) & McCabe, H. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Irvine, N. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation