Professor Catherine Turner

Head of School Professor Cathy Turner

RN, PhD (UQ)

Head of School

Profile and Research Interests

Cathy Turner has nursing and education qualifications, clinical experience in critical care and emergency nursing and a PhD in population health.

Since 1992 Cathy has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses and in 2000 Cathy joined the School of Population Health [UQ] to teach epidemiology and coordinate the Master of Public Health Program.  

Concurrently her background in nursing education led her to develop and implement a new undergraduate nursing program at UQ in 2004 for which she received a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005. It is in this context that Cathy brought together a research team with a range of expertise to focus on workforce issues within the nursing and midwifery professions and population health outcomes by establishing the Nurses & Midwives e-cohort which is funded by the Australian Research Council and a range of industry partners.This has also led to the establishment of the Doctors e-cohort and Graduate e-cohort studies.

In 2006 Cathy received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to spend several months at Harvard University learning about longitudinal study methods from the Nurses' Health Study   research group. Cathy has also been awarded an NHMRC Fellowship [2007-2011] for her research on the e-cohort studies.

In 2008 Cathy commenced as Head of the UQ School of Nursing and Midwifery, was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Flinders University, and became a member of the Board of Directors of the Mater Health Services.

In 2011 Cathy was appointed as an Assistant Commissioner of the Health Quality and Complaints Commisssion Queensland (HQCC).

Cathy has published over 100 peer reviewed journal publications and conference presentations and attracted over $5 million in competitive ARC, NHMRC and industry grant funding within the last 7 years as the lead investigator.

Publications

Publications by Professor Catherine Turner

Research Projects

Research Projects by Professor Catherine Turner

Research Students

Research Higher Degree

Sophie Anderson-James: Doctor of Philosophy:                                         Commenced 2011
Anna Dawson:               Doctor of Philosophy: Menzies Scholarship:            Completed 2009
Fiona Hawthorne:           Doctor of Philosophy: NHMRC Scholarship:             Completed 2007
Helen Petsky:                Doctor of Philosophy:
Mary Sidebotham:          Doctor of Philosophy: APAI Scholarship:                 Completed 2010
Emily Yorkston:              Doctor of Philosophy: IPCA Scholarship:                 Completed 2007
Mary Boyd:                   Doctor of Philosophy: Elizabeth Davies Scholarship:  Completed 2011
Isabella Zhao:                Doctor of Philosophy: APA Scholarship:                  Completed 2012

Masters

Cynthia Pang:               Master of Public Health Dissertation: International: Completed 2006
Emily Proctor:               Master of Public Health Dissertation:                    Completed 2001

Honours

Lynda Gaynor:              Bachelor of Nursing Honours: Scholarship: Honours Class I 2006
Isabella Zhao:              Bachelor of Nusing Honours:   International: Honours Class I 2007

Contact details:

School of Nursing & Midwifery
Faculty of Health Sciences
The University of Queensland

T: (+61) 7 3381 1165
E: nursing-midwifery@uq.edu.au

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