Dr Gordon Hill
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Head for International, SHLS
Department of Nursing and Community Health
Gordon is the Assistant Head for International in the School of Health and Life Sciences and is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Public Health Education at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
His role at Glasgow Caledonian University has a focus on international developments, international recruitment, International student support, trans-national educational projects, international continual professional development and summer school provision.
Gordon has a background in Clinical Research, starting his first clinical research nurse post in 1994. In 1996 he was appointed as the Associate Nurse Manager in the Clinical Research Facility in Edinburgh. During his time at the CRF he developed an interest in the education and training of Clinical Research Professionals and upon moving to Higher education in 2006 he established courses in Clinical Research. The programmes he led included undergraduate and post graduate qualifications in the UK and an MSc in Clinical Research in Singapore. He also established the Scottish Research Nurse and Co-ordinators Network (SRNCN) in 2005 and remains an expert in the field.
Gordon is also a member of the Royal College of Nursing Research Society Steering committee, is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Nursing and is on the board of directors at The Welcoming charity in Edinburgh.