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Professor Andrea Cameron

Vice-Principal (Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences)

Faculty Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences

Department Central Faculty

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Biography

Andrea Cameron is Professor of Professional Practice in Health Education, the Vice-Principal (Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences) and the Intellectual Lead for Teaching and Learning. Andrea is also the Lead for Abertay's Northwood Trust-funded Wellbeing Clinic. She was the first National Teaching Fellow at 麻豆原创 and was one of the first recipients of the award in Scotland in 2018. Andrea is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has progressed a number of student experience enhancement issues in the various roles she's had at Abertay since joining in 2003. She has led on a series of strategic initiatives for the university - most recently in relation to Employability, Academic Tutoring, Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum, Staff Profiling and Accelerated Degrees.
She maintains an active role in the classroom and is module leader for the 2nd year sport placement module. She has presented and published work in relation to Personal Development Planning, professional reflective practice and heightening employability, receiving a Special Recognition Award for her work with Active Schools. She has also been the recipient of several Student-Led Teaching Awards for her work in relation to enhancing opportunities for students. Before becoming a sport scientist, Andrea was, and remains, a registered nurse teacher. She continues to produce patient publications for a Diabetes charity. Andrea鈥檚 interests in heightening skills, competency and employability in graduates derive from her clinical nurse teaching experiences. Andrea is also a mother of one and an accomplished athlete, representing Scotland and England at long distance track events as well as cross-country.

Currently Andrea is module leader for the second year 鈥榃ork Placement鈥� module and co-ordinates the second year sport student placements. This module focuses specifically on enabling the students to make links between theory and practice through placement experiences, but also involve students delivering practical sessions to community groups and presenting a Linked-In webfolio to showcase skills and experiences. Students are required to update their Personal Development Plans throughout the module and to evaluate their experiences, in order that they can start to operate as Reflective Practitioners.听 Andrea has published and presented on interventions to enhance student employability skills and has been a winner and runner-up in the Student-led Teaching Awards Best Platform for employability category.

Previously Andrea has taught in the areas of Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Health Promotion,Nutrition and Health, Research Methods and Exercise Physiology and continues to run mobile workshops and laboratory based practicals as part of Dundee Science Festival as well as for senior school groups.

Interests

Andrea鈥檚 current research interests lie in the domain of heightening skills, competency and employability in graduates deriving from her clinical nurse teaching experiences.

She has previously presented and published work in relation to Personal Development Planning, developing the Reflective听Practitioner,听and employability initiatives, including 鈥楥lients in the Classroom鈥�. She has completed research in the area听 of physical activity measurement and Type 2听 Diabetes, as well as examining the knowledge and practices of primary care staff in delivering physical activity promotion information to patients. She has been involved in Retention and Progression Higher Education projects, and has presented on issues of reasonable adjustment, disability and differentiated performance.

She also continues to produce patient publications for听the charity, the Diabetes Wellness Research Foundation on Exercise and Diabetes.

More Information

Funding

  • Principal Investigator for Abertay's Northwood Trust funded Wellbeing Clinic (awarded 拢123,765)
  • Co-investigator for Burdett Trust for Nursing project on Cultural Competence in Type 2 Diabetes Nursing
  • Principal Investigator on Police Scotland project on Sports Integrity (拢3,999)
  • Prinicipal Investigator on SRU-funded studentship (拢4,000)
  • Principal Investigator for ESF/Social Innovation Fund project in collaboration with Dundee Bairns charity and Dundee City Council examining the impact of a homework and hot meal after school club for children with need (Awarded 拢16,800)
  • Co-investigator on an Abertay Teaching, Learning and Enhancement Fund (ATLEF) project examining the university experiences of pregnant students or students with pregnant partners. (Awarded 拢2000)
  • Principal Investigator on a project titled 鈥楾racking the destination of sports graduates 鈥� a longitudinal study鈥� which was awarded support costs of circa 拢3000 from the Abertay Teaching, Learning and Enhancement Fund (ATLEF).
  • Co-investigator on a project examining the transition and progress of students from the university鈥檚 Access programme (AHEAD) which was awarded support costs of circa 拢2000 from the Abertay Teaching, Learning and Enhancement Fund (ATLEF).
  • Principal Investigator on a project titled 鈥楨mbracing Diversity-watch your language鈥� which was awarded support costs of circa 拢6000 from the Abertay Teaching, Learning and Enhancement Fund (ATLEF).
  • Co-investigator on a 拢30,000 RCF funded project looking at student nurses with disabilities experiences of clinical placement
  • Principal investigator on an Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum Strategic Enhancement project (HEA Scotland)
  • 听Co-investigator on 鈥�Enhancing student use of educational mobile apps鈥� awarded monies from ATLEF
  • 听Co-investigator on 鈥�Supporting assessment and feedback practice with technology鈥� 听awarded monies from ATLEF

Esteem

    • Providing input for the development of Advance HE guidance on 鈥楽upporting Pregnant Students鈥�
  • SIGN 55 Guideline Reviewer
鈥� Aurora Leadership Foundation Programme Role Model
鈥rustee of Discovery Rugby Charitable Trust
  • Trustee of Dundee Dragons Wheelchair Sports Club
    鈥� Governor of Dundee Education Trust
  • Council of Deans of Health Chair of EDI Strategic Policy Group and member of Nominations and Remuneration Committee
  • Elected Governor and Honorary Treasurer, Society of Research in Higher Education
鈥� Member of the Scottish Qualifications Authority鈥檚 (SQA) National Qualifications Support Team Physical Education (PE)

2019 鈥� present date:- Reviewer for Office for Students鈥� Strategic interventions in health education disciplines 2019 challenge fund: Innovations in recruitment to and delivery of healthcare courses

听2017- present date:- Athena Swan panellist for the Equality Challenge Unit/Advance HE

听2016- present date:- Reviewer for National Teaching Fellow Awards for HEA/Advance HE

2016- present date:- Reviewer for annual Society for Research in Higher Education conference and scoping awards

2015- 2019:- External Examiner for Leeds Trinity University Foundation Degree in Sport, PE and Health, and MSc Health and Wellbeing

2013 鈥� present date:- Reviewer for Annual QAA Scotland conference

2009-2012:- External Examiner for the University of Cumbria鈥檚 Foundation Degree in Physical Activity and Health

2005- present date:- Editorial Panel Member, Contributor and Peer Reviewer for the Diabetes Wellness Research Foundation鈥檚 monthly publication 鈥� 鈥楧iabetes Wellness News鈥�

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AWARDS:-

National Teaching Fellow Award, August 2018

Winner of Enhancing Student Opportunities Student Led Teaching Award 2017

Outstanding Contribution to Active Schools Dundee 鈥� inaugural award April 2013
Commonwealth Games Baton Bearer 鈥� Dundee June 2014
Runner-up for Student-Led Teaching Award for Best Platform for Employability in 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011
Runner-up for Best Paper and Torup Award EUNIS Conference (July 2015)
Runner-up for a sparqs Student Engagement Award (May 2015)

Knowledge Exchange

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE:-
鈥ommissioned to produce a WBL case study for QAA Scotland.

  • Producing patient publications for听the charity, the Diabetes Wellness Research Foundation on Exercise and Diabetes
  • SIGN 55 Guideline Reviewer
  • working with Tayside Public Health partners to promote the Physical Activity Agenda and to help in policy decisions

鈥� working with Tayside Exercise Referral Forum with regard to reviewing this service
鈥� working with British Exercise Referral Association to produce a constitution for membership
鈥� working with STEM (TechFest-SETPOINT North) and the Forward into Science project to promote science to a range of community and schools groups
鈥� from 1991-4 under the 鈥楬ealth at Work鈥� initiatives providing training for Occupational Health Nurses, as part of the Wessex Institute of Public Health鈥檚 training programme
鈥� advisor to new enrolments to Basingstoke Sports Centre (also as part of corporate evenings) on general health for sport and exercise
鈥� from 1998-2003 undertaking collaborative projects with the Health Promotion Department for North and Mid-Hampshire Health Authority
鈥� 2001-2002 working on the implementation of the National Service Framework for Mental Health in collaboration with the Mid-Hampshire Health Authority
鈥� undertaking fitness assessments of young footballers attending a football academy for a televised Channel 4 documentary (Spring 2002)

Outreach

Outreach

Working with STEM (now TechFest-SETPOINT North) and the Forward into Science project to promote science to a range of community and schools groups

Delivering mobile workshops and laboratory based practicals as part of Dundee Science Festival as well as for senior school groups.

Meet the rest of the team

Dr Allan Moore

Dr Allan Moore

Central Faculty | Faculty Head of Teaching, Quality, and Learning Enhancement (Partnerships)

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Dr Scott Cameron

Dr Scott Cameron

Central Faculty | Faculty Head of Teaching Quality and Learning Enhancement

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