Dr. Tricia Scott, (PhD, BA (Hons), RMN, RGN, DipN, Cert Ed.), is an academic in the higher education sector and until recently was Principal Lecturer and Programme Director of the Doctorate in Health Research at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, and was previously Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Academic Emergency Medicine at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.
Tricia is an experienced emergency nurse, teacher and researcher with a national and international reputation in emergency care. Throughout her clinical career in the emergency department, she experienced many death encounters with patients and families and this led to her research into sudden death. In 2003, Tricia was awarded a Ph.D. Social Research by the University of Durham for her research into sudden death work by emergency personnel. She is also Consultant Editor of the RCNi Emergency Nurse journal.