Nickola is currently a project manager on the Work and Cancer project, funded by a Health Research Board (HRB) Definitive Intervention and Feasibility Award awarded to Prof Deirdre Connolly. Nickola graduated from Radiation Therapy in Trinity College Dublin in 2012 and has a MSc in Diet, Nutrition and Health. Nickola is a HRB funded final year PhD scholar on the SPHeRE programme in population health, policy and health-services research. As part of her doctoral research, Nickola is examining how to improve the implementation of self-management support in cancer survivorship care. She was a visiting researcher at the Health Services Research and Implementation Science department in the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia in 2023. She is also a recipient of the International Behavioural Trails Network (IBTN) summer school (2022), the National Cancer Institute Multilevel Intervention Training Institute (MLTI) (2022), and the Irish Implementation Science Training Institute (2022).
Before starting her PhD in 2020 she held a lecturer position in the School of Allied and Community Health, London South Bank University where she taught on the BSc (Hons) and MSc. Therapeutic Radiography programmes. Prior to this she worked in acute oncology services in Ireland and the UK. In 2017 she was awarded a Cancer Research UK pre-doctoral fellowship where she was based in the Department of Behavioural Science and Health in University College London. This research investigated the barriers and enablers among radiographers in delivering health behaviour advice to those living with and beyond cancer. During this fellowship, she was also awarded a College of Radiographers Industrial Partnership Scheme Grant to explore radiographers’ experiences of e-learning as a strategy to support delivery of brief health behaviour advice to cancer patients. Nickola’s research interests include self-management support, cancer survivorship and implementation science.
Publications
Pallin N.D., McHugh SM, Carvalho M, Hegarty J, Connolly RM, Browne JP. Enablers and barriers to accessing self‐management support services for those living with and beyond cancer: A qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework. Psycho‐Oncology. 2024;33(1):6254. Journal Article, 2024 doi.org/10.1002/pon.6254
Riordan F, Kerins C, Pallin N, Albers B, Clack L, Morrissey E, Curran GM, Lewis CC, Powell BJ, Presseau J, Wolfenden L. Characterising processes and outcomes of tailoring implementation strategies in healthcare: a protocol for a scoping review. HRB Open Research. 2022;5. Journal Article, 2022. 10.12688/hrbopenres.13507.2
Pallin, N.D., O’Connor, M., Gannon, A., Browne, J., Cahill, M.R., O’Shea, D. Experiences of and preferences for self-management among low grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors: A qualitative interview study. European Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2023;66:102378. Journal Article, 2023. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2023.102378
Pallin, N.D., Webb, J., Brown, L., Woznitza, N., Stewart-Lord, A., Charlesworth, L., Beeken R.J., Fisher, A. Online training resources to aid therapeutic radiographers in engaging in conversations about physical activity and diet: A mixed methods study. Radiography. 2021;28(1):124-32 Journal Article, 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2021.09.004
Pallin, N., Beeken, R.J., Jones, K.P., Woznitza, N. and Fisher, A. A survey of therapeutic radiographers’ knowledge, practices, and barriers in delivering health behaviour advice to cancer patients. Journal of Cancer Education. 2020; 1-8. 6. Journal Article, 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s13187-020-01896-x
Pallin, N.D., Beeken, R.J., Pritchard-Jones, K., Charlesworth, L., Woznitza, N. and Fisher, A. Therapeutic radiographers’ delivery of health behaviour change advice to those living with and beyond cancer: a qualitative study. BMJ open. 2020;10 (8). Journal Article, 2020. doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039909
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