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Nicola Andrews is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton's School of Health Sciences and an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow. Her work focuses on enhancing care for older people living with frailty, particularly in care homes and extra-care housing settings. She is involved in building research capacity within these contexts and contributes to the Ageing & Dementia theme of ARC Wessex, specifically in the CAtCH-NET study, which investigates community alternatives to acute hospital admission for older people with frailty. Andrews is a registered nurse with a productive clinical career in the NHS and independent hospices, where she supported quality improvement initiatives in care homes and home care settings. She completed her PhD in 2021, which involved ethnographic research on multi-professional involvement in advance care planning processes in nursing homes. Her post-doctoral research has enhanced her leadership and methodological expertise, incorporating mixed methods and creative approaches, as well as fostering collaborations with care home and extra-care housing providers, underpinning her role as a practitioner and academic in these settings.