Niall came to the university in 1996 from the West Yorkshire College of Health Studies, where he had been a Nurse Tutor. Originally trained in Scotland as a Registered Nurse for people with learning disabilities. he worked in various learning disability care settings including a large institution, community group homes, challenging behaviour units and as a community charge nurse. Niall also worked as a Research Associate on a one-year Yorkshire Region funded project examining the health needs of people with learning disabilities.

After 12 years in nurse education where he had various roles, including course leader and divisional head for learning disabilities nursing, Niall moved to a post in the Division of Community, Public Health and Well-being and taught sociology and psychology to HEFCE students. After this addition to his portfolio, Niall returned to nursing as the Joint Divisional Head for Learning Disability and Child Nursing.

Professional qualifications

Niall has the following professional qualifications:

• FHEA, MSc Applied Behavioural Sciences,
  BSc Nursing with Education,Dip HE Nursing, RNMH.

Responsibilities

Niall currently has two main roles

1. Joint Head of Undergraduate Nursing - Dept of Health Sciences
   • Leading the development and implementation of the new undergraduate nursing curriculum.
2. Senior Lecturer Learning Disability Nursing - Division of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
   Module Leader
   • HIQ1041 Support for People with Learning Disabilities Across the Lifespan
   • HHQ1014 Enhanced Support for People with Learning Disabilities Across the Lifespan
   Associate module leader for
   • HIQ1036 Service Delivery in Learning Disability Care
   • HIN1047/HHN1017 Leadership and Management for the Newly-qualified Nurse

• Personal Tutor, Link Teacher
• Member of the School Technology Committee
• Member of the School Practice Placement Quality Committee

Niall’s current research and scholarship centers around two longstanding academic interests: The Sociology of Intellectual Disability Care; The Social Construction of Theoretical and Practical Professional Knowledge. Niall is a member of the Health and Social Care Research Centre and the Centre for Research in Social Sciences.

• Current - Lead of Cross University and Regional ePortfolio Network (ALPS CETL follow-on project)
• 2010-2012 - Project Leader looking at ePortfolio recommendation for University of Huddersfield to enable ePDP and eReflection
• 2009-2010 – Project Team of the ePortfolio evaluation project (ALPS)
• 2008-present – PhD study examining the social construction of professional knowledge in health and social care students through ePortfolios
• 2006-2009 – member of the University core team for the ALPS project – representing the institution on the ALPS E-valuation Committee, ALPS Competencies development.
• 2003-2006 Member of South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust Professional Leadership Group

Presentations

• University of Huddersfield Teaching and Learning Conference (2008) Mobile Learning: On the Campus and Beyond
• ALT-C Pre-Conference (2008) Student Interaction with Mobile Technologies
• NET (2008): Learning Disability Student’s Initial reaction to the Distribution of Mobile Devices (ALPS)

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

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

Rhodes, C. and Dew, N. (2011) ‘A collaborative approach to curriculum development’. In: The RCN Joint Education Forums’ International Conference, June 2011, Belfast

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

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

• Learning disability and intellectual disability
• Professional knowledge construction
• ePortfolios
• Social media