Nadine is a Research Associate in the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS). She has conducted research with children who have experience of living in alternative care settings, their families, and the adults who care for them. Her overarching research interests include children, families, alternative care, social work, sociology and relationships.

Nadine's work at CELCIS has recently involved: a focused mapping review of adoption literature, focusing on what is known about adoption and what is needed to modernise adoption in Scotland; a longitudinal Evaluation of the Lifelong Links Project in Scotland, being trialled by Family Rights Group and exploring how children and young people 'in care' can be supported to stay in touch with people that are important to them, and; a multi-strand project that sought to understand how to achieve transformationl change in children's services, knwon as the Children Services Reform Research. She is also the current Book Review Editor of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, published twice per year in Spring and Autumn by CELCIS.

Nadine completed her PhD, titled 'An Ethnographic Exploration of Relationships in Residential Child Care', at the University of Stirling in 2019. She also has an MSc in Applied Social Research (2014) and a BA Hons in Psychology and Sociology (2013), both from the University of Stirling.

Childhood, Families, Relationships, Care Experience, Foster Care, Kinship Care, Residential Care, Social Work