Professor Raymond Chan
Director and Dean of Research (Nursing and Health Sciences)
Cares about solutions that will optimise outcomes for cancer survivors and the health system.
Ray is an internationally recognised leader in cancer supportive care, cancer survivorship, and nurse-led and nurse-enabled models of care. Ray has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 3 book chapters. He has attracted >$35 million AUD of research funding as CI (>$19 Million AUD as CIA), including 5 NHMRC Project Grants, 2 NHMRC Partnership Grants, 1 NHMRC Health Professional Fellowship, 1 NHMRC Investigator Grant, and government contracts. He is a sought-after expert in cancer survivorship.
In 2014, he was awarded Outstanding Young Alumnus of the Year by the Queensland University of Technology and the Premier’s Award for Excellence in Leadership by the Queensland Government. In June 2021, he was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. He currently serves on the NHMRC Research Committee (Triennium 2022-2025). He believes caring solutions using a people-centred, integrated and interprofessional approach is the most effective and sustainable way to solve today’s and tomorrow’s health problems.
Cares about generating and getting new knowledge from research into the hands of people who make decisions about resources, run organisations and who deliver and receive care.
Alison is an internationally recognised leader in nursing and knowledge translation research. Alison has research colleagues across the globe who collaborate on the frontiers of health care research and its translation into practice and policy. She is the inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. Alison has more than 300 publications and is a sought-after expert in the techniques and methodologies for effective knowledge translation. Alison has been acknowledged in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Thomas Reuters) list of high cite world researchers for her work on knowledge translation. Alison is passionate about recognising the impact care has on individual and population health and wellbeing. Her mission is to change the way society thinks about and invests in care and caring solutions. She believes this can be done through innovative and collaborative approaches based on research evidence and in partnership with decision makers and users of care services.
Professor Rebecca Golley
Deputy Director (Programmatic Development)
Lead, Healthy Start to Life
Cares about ensuring the places people live, learn, work, eat and play support health, development and wellbeing.
Rebecca is a Matthew Flinders Fellow and nationally recognised expert in childhood obesity prevention and nutrition promotion. She has undertaken postdoctoral research in the UK and with Australian agencies such as the CSIRO funded by the NHMRC and National Heart Foundation.
Rebecca leads a program of public health nutrition research at Flinders University. Rebecca is Chief Investigator on major research projects into children’s nutrition, health and development and obesity prevention worth over $5.8M. With over 100 publications and a H index of 36, Rebecca’s research impacts include citations in guidelines, scale up of evidence-informed programs, commissioned reports, tools and resources. Rebecca develops strong partnerships with government and industry that shapes her research program and facilitates translation into practice.
She was a Founding Member of the National Nutrition Network for Early Childhood Education and Care, and is the Chair of the Dietetic and Nutrition Research Leaders Network, and Member, Council of Deans in Nutrition and Dietetics.
Cares about engaging students, staff and partners in research and improving health for all.
Professor Lewis’ research leadership is underpinned by an ongoing commitment and distinguished contribution to guiding other researchers. She is passionate about the integration of education, research, and clinical practice to promote healthy lifestyle behaviours across the lifespan. Lucy is currently completing projects investigating periods of life transition to target intergenerational lifestyle behaviours for maximum impact on health and wellbeing, and reablement approaches for older adults.
Lucy is a registered physiotherapist and has previously served as the Academic Lead Physiotherapy and Interim Dean People and Resources at Flinders University. She holds an Executive role on the Council of Physiotherapy Deans Australian and New Zealand and sits on the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences and the Branch Council of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Professor Gillian Harvey
Deputy Director (Knowledge Translation)
Cares about implementing research evidence to improve systems and processes of health and care delivery.
She has a professional background in nursing and undertakes research in the areas of implementation science and facilitating evidence-based practice in health care.
Gill has a strong career background in the UK in previous roles including working as the Director of the Royal College of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Programme, Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care and Professor of Health Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
In 2014, she was named as a Thomson-Reuters highly cited researcher, particularly for her work with colleagues on developing and testing a widely used conceptual framework for implementation, known as PARIHS (Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services). Gill has 214 publications on Google Scholar with an H-index 50, being cited over 19,200 times.
Cares about progressive collaborative and impactful research in the field of healthcare
Xing joined the Caring Futures Institute as our Research Partnership Development Director in 2022. Xing comes from a legal background and has worked closely with senior executives in the tertiary and healthcare sectors for over eight years. Previously, Xing managed QUT’s Centre for Healthcare Transformation, one of the largest health services research centres in Queensland, and led development work for key university infrastructure. He has also secured key partnerships to support Category 1-4 research and implemented university-wide research policies to streamline grant processes.
Cares about supporting the conduct, dissemination and implementation of quality research that improves health and wellbeing for all.
Anthea joined Flinders University in 2021 as the Institute Manager of the Caring Futures Institute. She has a Master’s in Business Administration and brings over a decade of experience working with the Joanna Briggs Institute and its international network of collaborating centres.
Anthea is responsible for the overall strategic, operational, financial, professional staff and research management of the Caring Futures Institute. She works with the Institute executive team, researchers and other stakeholders to support the growth, development and promotion of the Institute nationally and globally.
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