Amy Nimegeer
KTP Associate / Researcher
University of the Highlands and Islands
Personal Details Address: Centre for Rural Health Tel: 01463 255901 Email:
University of the Highlands and Islands
Centre for Health Science
Old Perth Road
Inverness
IV2 3JH
Biography
Amy joined the Centre for Rural Health in 2008 as project manager for the Remote Service Futures project and as a PhD student with UHI Millennium Institute. She now works on a number of projects, including Engaging Local Authorities and Improving the Delivery of Emergency Healthcare in Scotland: a mixed-methods evaluation of the role of the community first responders.
Amy holds a BA English from The University of Calgary, an MLitt in Irish and Scottish Studies from the University of Aberdeen and an MBA also from the University of Aberdeen. Her interest in remote health care comes from her background in remote and rural Canada.
Research Interests
Amy's PhD focuses on community engagement for health care service planning in remote and rural areas and employs the theories of Focault and other modern social theorists to examine how participants use discourse to broker power in community engagement initiatives.
Publications, Reports and Awards
Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate Presentation of the Year, 2009.
Nimegeer, A., Farmer, J., West, C., Whiston, S., and Heaney, D. (2010), Remote Service Futures: Health Care Service Design with Communities - Final Report. UHI Millennium Institute Inverness: Centre for Rural Health. (Please note- this KTP Project received a classification of 'outstanding' and is now under consideration for KTP of the year, 2010.) http://www.abdn.ac.uk/crh/research/completed/remote-service-futures/
Nimegeer A, Farmer J, West C, Whiston S and Heaney D. Remote Service Futures Toolkit: a guide for engaging with remote and rural communities for health care service design. UHI Millennium Institute, February 2010.http://www.abdn.ac.uk/crh/research/completed/remote-service-futures/
Farmer J, Nimegeer A Remote service futures: working with communities and stakeholders in service design. Rural Futures: Dreams, Dilemmas and Dangers. The University of Plymouth. April 2008. (conference journal)
Skerratt, S., Hall, C., Lamprinopoulou, C., McCracken, D., Midgley, A., Price, M., Renwick, A., Revoredo, C., Thomson, S., Williams, F. and Wreford, A. (2010), Rural Scotland in Focus 2010, Edinburgh: Rural Policy Centre, SAC. (Specialist Contributor)
Conference Presentations and Public Lectures
Nimegeer, A. Designing Services with Communities, We don't deserve it ... rural health services in a cold economic climate, UHI public lecture. Inverness, February 2010.
Nimegeer, A. Engaging remote and rural communities for health care service design," UHI Postgraduate Conference, Thurso, 4-5 November, 2009.
Nimegeer, A. Remote Service Futures: A knowledge transfer partnership project, . KTP Seminar Dundee,18th September, 2009 - Note, this presentation won KTP Associate Presentation of the Year, 2009.
Nimegeer, A. An agenda for staffing based on community need, 'How do we staff the islands and remote areas' conference, The Centre for Health Science. Inverness, 23rd June, 2009.
Nimegeer, A and West, C. Community Engagement for health care service providers workshop, Remote Service Futures project, 9th Annual WONCA conference, Crete. 13th June, 2009.
Nimegeer, A. Remote Service Futures: Planning health services with remote communities,Annual Public Health Conference. Aviemore, November 2008.
Currie M, Farmer J, and Nimegeer A. Physician Assistants in Scotland: The answer to healthcare delivery in rural areas? Sixth International Symposium - PHARE. Saskatoon, Canada, 19-23 October 2008.
Nimegeer, A. Remote Service Futures: What Scottish communities are doing about services, Sixth International Symposium - PHARE. Saskatoon, Canada, 19-23 October 2008.