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Staff Profile

Anna Robinson

Lecturer in Pharmacy

Background

Anna is a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and PhD Researcher at Newcastle School of Pharmacy. She is also a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, with a wealth of experience working in Primary and Secondary care settings across the North-East of England.

Qualifications: 

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2019
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice, 2017
  • Masters of Pharmacy, 2015
  • Anna is currently studying for her PhD at Newcastle University
  • Anna also holds national positions with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) including being a Professional Mentor, a member of the Annual Conference steering group, and a member of the Early Career Pharmacist Advisory Group. 

Professional registration: 

  • General Pharmaceutical Council 

Memberships:

  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society 
Research

Research focus: Anna's research interests lie in working with minoritised and vulnerable communities. In particular, Anna's research seeks to target medicines- and health- inequalities.

Anna is also currently studying for her PhD and is in receipt of the Newcastle University Dr WE Harker PhD studentship in surgical sciences. Her PhD research is focused on the use and optimisation of digital technologies to support healthier lifestyle change in surgical patient cohorts. 

Research expertise: qualitative research methodologies, including remote interviewing and co-design; equality, diversity and inclusivity in research; interpretation and translator services in research; patient and public involvement and engagement; and qualitative evidence synthesis techniques, including meta-ethnography.

Recent work:

  • accessibility of healthcare and pharmacy services for marginalised populations;
  • the perspectives of healthcare professionals to overcome accessibility barriers for ethnic minority groups when seeking medication support;
  • integration of cultural competence in the initial education and training of pharmacy students;
  • establishing cultural humility and cultural competence within the pharmacy profession;
  • addressing medicines use and deprescribing in palliative care settings.
  • Full list here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EoYP-C0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Research funding:

  • 2022: Anna was a recipient of the Engage FMS Newcastle University Tilly Hale Award for Celebrating Excellence in Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement.
  • 2022: Anna was awarded a Newcastle University Education Development Fund grant to conduct research into the design, implementation and delivery of a culturally competent pharmacy curriculum for pharmacists of the future. 

In her previous role as Research Assistant at the School of Pharmacy, her work explored accessibility to medicines review services for ethnic minority communities in the North East of England. She was funded in this post by the NIHR North East and North Cumbria Applied Research Collaboration (ARC). This award-winning work was recognised with an 'Investing in You' Dialogue and Change award from the NIHR. 


Teaching

Anna is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

She contributes to the teaching and assessments of Clinical Pharmacy across all stages of the MPharm degree at Newcastle. Anna is an assessment lead and the lead for Cardiology topics in Stage 2.

From September 2023, Anna will be the lead for Stage 2 of the MPharm programme.

Anna is the School of Pharmacy academic lead for:

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI),
  • Professionalism and Professional Standards,
  • and Peer Mentoring.

She is a supervisor and co-supervisor of PhD students, Masters-level dissertations and student projects within the School of Pharmacy, as well as wider Public Health postgraduate programmes at the University. 

Anna is an external supervisor for students undertaking the NIHR DCAF.

Publications