Research Staff

The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health have many research staff who also supervise higher research degree students. For students considering studying their research degree at CSU the following information may assist you in contacting the appropriate researcher for your topic and methodology.

Staff Methodology Research areas
Professor Louise O'Brien (Adjunct) Phenomonology
Mixed methods		 Mental Health
Associate Professor Ann Bonnor (Adjunct) Grounded Theory
Mixed methods		 Nephrology (renal)
Chronic conditions
Medical/surgical
Rural
Associate Professor Andrew Crowther Qualitative Mental Health
Dr Elaine Dietsch Phenomenology
Feminist research
Service-based research		 Midwifery
Women's Health (Australia and sub-Saharan Africa)
Dr Maree Bernoth Phenomenology
Post structural feminist
Post modern emergent		 Aged care - residential and community focused
Workplace safety
Research focused on issues around power relationships in the workplace
Community nursing
Wound care
Paul Mahony Psychometrics
Concordance testing
Empirical quantitative methods
Survey
Delphi.

Aviation medicine
Fitness of passengers to fly
Idenitification of high risk passeners pre flight
Passenger medical incidents
Cabin crew and passenger health and safety
Symptom classification schema
Problem based instruction and learning
Curriculum design
Medical emergency management
Telemedicine in remote areas and aviation
Simulation based learning
Evidence based practice in emergency medicine and nursing
Application of CRM
Human factors approaches to clinical instruction of nurses and paramedics.
Dr Judith Anderson

Grounded Theory
Action Research
Qualitative methods

Rural Nursing
University access for rural and remote students
Workplace education
Clinical decision making

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