• Dementia
• Health and Ethnicity
• Global Health including Non Communicable Diseases
• Sensory and Cognitive Impairments in Older adults
• Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
• Nursing Education including Continuing Professional Development
• Methodological expertise with Qualitative research

PhD Supervision

1. Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in Tayside, Scotland, among people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes treated with insulin (Student completed in 2016).
2. Operational Research on Uptake of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for Low Birth Weight (LBW) Infants along a Facility-Community Continuum in a selected Sub District of Northern Karnataka, India (October, 2016) – University of Stirling International Impact Fellowship.
3. Facilitating and evaluating the impacts of technology -enabled specialist diabetes service delivery to care homes, Scotland (October, 2016) –  European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF) PhD Fellowship, University of  the Highlands & Islands.
4. Technology Enabled Dementia Education and Support (TEDES) for Health Care Professionals in Rural Scotland (April 2017) – ESIF Collaborative PhD Studentship, University of Edinburgh & University of the Highlands & Islands.
5. How might the deployment of Digital Technologies improve mental health and reduce inequalities for young people in the Highlands and Islands Region? (2018) ESIF PhD Studentship, University of the Highlands & Islands.
6. Bringing the Virtual into Reality: Immersive Virtual Environment Technology and Wellbeing for People Living with Dementia in Rural Settings: An Action Research Project (April 2018), City - Region Deal PhD Studentship, University of the Highlands & Islands.

• Adult Nursing inclusive of all specialities
• Care of Older adults
• Dementia
• Health & Wellbeing.
• Pedagogy; Curriculum and Programme Development
• Knowledge Exchange within international contexts.
• Internationalisation
• Research Methodology
• Leadership & Management
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Nursing Education

BSc (Nursing) - 1987: College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore

University of Madras, India.

MSc (Medical-Surgical Nursing) - 1995:College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore

The Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, India.

PhD (March 2009) - School of Health, Community and Education studies - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (Jan 2016).

• Curriculum and Programme Development
• Academic Consultancy for Project Evaluations
• Consultancy on Nurse Education in Low and middle Income Countries
• Research Consultancy in Low and middle Income Countries
• Developing Dementia Training Programmes for Practitioners
• Academic Partnerships with the Third Sector