Karen STRICKLAND

Karen is Professor of Nursing and Clinical Chair at the university of Canberra and ACT Health. At the University of Canberra Karen is also the Head of School in the school of nursing and Midwifery where she provides leadership and vision for nursing and midwifery education research. Karen joined the University of Canberra in 2017 when moved to Australia from the UK where she had worked in various academic roles at Edinburgh Napier and Robert Gordon universities.  Karen has also held a number of external examiner positions at various universities in the UK and Ireland.

Karen has a sustained track record of publishing and reviewing in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and presenting at international conferences and delivering keynote presentations. Her research outputs have been included in the REF 2014 and RAE 2008 for the nursing submission at Edinburgh Napier University. She is currently a member of the international advisory board for Nurse Education in Practice.

Karen is an experienced researcher in the fields of cancer, chronic conditions and palliative care. Her methodological expertise lies mainly in qualitative approaches but she also has experience of quantitative approaches has undertaken a number of systematic reviews.

Karen has provided research supervisor for a number of students in the UK and currently in Australia. She has also examined doctoral theses.