New Zealand Investigators
Left to right: Annette Dickinson, Annette Huntington, Jean Gilmour, Deb Spence, Stephen Neville, Heather Baker and Sue Scott.
Dr Stephen Neville: RN, PhD, FCNA(NZ) is the Principal Investigator of the New Zealand Graduate e-cohort study. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and the Postgraduate Coordinator in the School of Health and Social Services at Massey University. Stephen’s research experience, interests and areas of publication include men's health and well-being, minority/marginalised groups, the social aspects of ageing and nursing workforce participation. Click here for more information about Dr Stephen Neville.
Associate Professor Annette Huntington: RN, PhD is Associate Professor and Director of Nursing Programmes in the School of Health and Social Sciences, Massey University. She has extensive experience in post-graduate nursing education, and the development of research in nursing. Annette is the New Zealand Director for the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort study and has research interests in the areas of: women’s health; the health of nurses; and the identification and impact of workplace stress. Her focus in nursing has been the promotion of clinical excellence through research, advanced practice roles and relevant policy development. In 2012 Annette was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year's Honours for her services to nursing research. Click here for more information about Dr Annette Huntington.
Heather Baker: RN, RM is a Registered General and Obstetric Nurse and a Registered Midwife with clinical experience in intensive care, coronary care and neonatal nursing in Auckland. She has been involved in nursing education since 1985 and is responsible for the management of the Bachelor of Nursing programme in the School of Nursing at The University of Auckland. Click here for more information about Heather Baker.
Dr Annette Dickinson: RGON, PhD currently holds a Senior Lecturer position at AUT University School of Nursing leading the postgraduate child health programmes as well as working with Starship Children’s Hospital as their Nursing Research Fellow. Her research and clinical interests include: the care of families who have a child with chronic illness or disability; children as consumers of health services and the development and education of the professional workforce for child health services. Click here for more information about Dr Annette Dickinson.
Dr Jean Gilmour: RN, PhD is a senior lecturer at Massey University, Wellington Campus. Her research interests include nursing workforce issues and use of information technology in practice. Click here for more information about Dr Jean Gilmour.
Dr Deb Spence: RN, RM, PhD is currently Joint Head of School at AUT University. She has extensive experience teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes. Her interests include advanced nursing practice, cultural safety, and qualitative methodologies such as phenomenology and hermeneutics. Current research involvement in addition to the Graduate e-cohort study include: Evaluation of the mental health component within the BHSc nursing at AUT and Collaborative evaluation of the clinical mentor model for undergraduate nurses at Auckland hospital. Click here for more information about Deb Spence.
Sue Scott: RN, MA is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health & Social Services Massey University, teaching in the areas of primary healthcare nursing and health promotion with undergraduates and clinical teaching and learning with postgraduates. Her nursing experience is mainly in community and surgical nursing areas. Sue’s current research interests include e-health and nurses and new graduate practice. Click here for more information about Sue Scott.
