Nicole Taylor

Dr Nicole Taylor
Award of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters

Nicole Taylor is a multi-award-winning Scottish screenwriter.

Born in Glasgow, Nicole relishes tackling challenging subjects including grooming, in the multi-BAFTA-winning Three Girls, surrogacy, in The Nest, and cancer in The C Word, which she adapted from Lisa Lynch’s inspiring memoir. Nicole read Law at the University of Oxford, then worked in light entertainment development in London before her pilot for a children’s TV drama won her a BBC Scotland competition and the attention of an agent.

A writer for film as well as TV, Nicole won a Best Writer BAFTA for the BBC’s Three Girls, which dramatised the Rochdale grooming scandal, and she created, wrote, and executive produced the thriller The Nest, starring fellow GCU honorary graduate Martin Compston.

Her films include Wild Rose, a winner of three BAFTA Scotland awards including Best Writer and Best Feature Film. A nominee for Best Woman Storyteller in the Women Film Critics Circle Awards and Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year at the London Critics Circle Film Awards,

Nicole has also been an Edinburgh International Film Festival Screenwriter-in-Residence.
Nicole lives in London and has two young children. She is currently showrunning a new series for Netflix and remains passionate about the two subjects celebrated in Wild Rose – country music and Glasgow.