Profiles

Professor Gail WhitefordProfessor Gail Whiteford

Gail has over 20 years involvement in allied health, specifically in occupational therapy, the discipline in which she holds her professorial position in Albury. She has worked in New Zealand where she was head of school of occupational therapy at Auckland University of Technology and has also spent time in Canada, the USA, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. She holds editorial positions on 1 national and 2 international refereed journals and has been an invited and keynote speaker in Australia, Canada, and the UK and has published widely in the occupational therapy literature. She will give the keynote paper at a women’s research conference at University of Central Queensland in November, marking a significant anniversary for their Women’s Research Group.

She is an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Canada and at James Cook University in Queensland. At CSU Gail serves on several university wide committees including the Research Management Committee and the University Medals Committee.

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Professor Heather GibbProfessor Heather Gibb

I have held the position of Professor of Nursing, Rural and Remote Health for the last five years. This position is co-sponsored by Charles Sturt University, Mid Western, Macquarie and Greater Murray Area Health Services. I completed my nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1975 and worked in rural and metropolitan hospitals in South Australia. I completed a B.A. Hons, at the University of Adelaide and Ph.D., at the University of Melbourne in Psychology in 1988.  I held the position of Research Fellow in Aged Care during 1988, then from 1988-1993 I worked at Deakin University and from 1993-1999 was Professor of Nursing, Aged Care at UTS/South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service. 

I have researched and published extensively in Aged Care. My current research activities focus on rural nursing in mental health, aged care and emergency as well as Aboriginal health and professional education.  An interest underlying this research area is the theoretical critique of policies of health care.

This page, to be updated regularly, will feature interesting women researchers from around Charles Sturt University. These women will not necessarily be the most senior women researchers, and nor will they necessarily be the ones that attract the most money. They represent a cross section of interesting research within the University, across all Faculties, and all levels of seniority. These women have been selected for the enthusiasm, diversity and richness they contribute to the University's research profile. Please feel free to contact these women to discuss their research. They will be delighted to have an interest shown in their work, and to expand their networks with both colleagues and other women both within and outside the University. If you know of a fellow researcher at CSU who you would like profiled, please contact Sarah McCormick on 84555 or email the details to smccormick@csu.edu.au.