Nicholas is Professorial Lead for Nursing and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences. Much of his day-to-day work involves teaching, research and co-leading initiatives with industry partners to realise the substantial short-term and long-term benefits that can be gained from academic-industry engagement. The strategic intent of his work is to partner with people and organisations who can use research evidence and lived experience to co-design person centred care to improve mental health and decrease suicidal suffering and death. Nicholas currently serves as Australia's national representative to the International Association for Suicide Prevention.