Keynote Speakers
    

Executive Director of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN)

Dr Sally Goold was instrumental in forming the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses, an organisation of which she is currently Executive Director. She worked at the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern, on its inception and was the first Aboriginal Registered Nurse to work there.

Sally has an extensive background in Acute Care Setting, Cardio-Thoracic and Coronary Care. She has lectured in both undergraduate and post-graduate programs at the School of Nursing at Queensland’s University of Technology.

She has been a member on the Advisory Boards of three Universities and is an Adjunct Professor at both James Cook and Griffith universities.

In 1986, she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for service to Nursing Education and Aboriginal Health.

Sally was a member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1997- 2000. Sally is an Ex-Commissioner of the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission.

In 2000, she was awarded the Royal College of Nursing (Queensland Chapter) Distinguished Nursing Award. Then in 2002, Sally was awarded a Doctor of Nursing, Honoris Causa from RMIT.

Sally is also a member of the National Indigenous Council (NIC) and was announced Senior Australian of the Year in the 2006 Australia Day Awards.

Dr Sally Hardy, Director, Department of Research and Practice Development, The Royal Children's Hospital

Sally began nurse training in 1982 at Sir Thomas Guy’s Hospital in London, she then moved into mental health nursing at the Maudsley Hospital where she completed a Masters in Clinical Mental Health Nursing with the Institute of Psychiatry in 1995.

Sally was appointed as one of the first mental health nursing Lecturer Practitioners in a joint appointment with Kings College London, until she moved to Norfolk in 1996 to become a nurse lecturer at the University of East Anglia (UEA). At UEA, Sally became one of the first students to complete an interdisciplinary professional doctorate in education, as part of the Centre of Applied Research in Education (CARE). During her time at UEA, Sally was engaged in several research projects, working with local NHS Trusts and with the Royal College of Nursing in London. In 2005 Sally became the Deputy Director of the Nursing & Midwifery Research unit, and was responsible for an innovative Masters by Research and developing an interdisciplinary doctorate in health as part of the UEA’s Faculty of Health.

In November, 2006 Sally was invited to join the team at the Royal Children’s Hospital as their Director of Research & Practice Development

Sally’s interest in practice development started long before she worked as a research associate with the RCNI on the Expertise in Practice project (Hardy et al, 2002;2006;2007; Manley et al, 2005), but it was here that she began to piece together the intuitive with the practical and theoretical aspects of Practice Development.

ally is an active member of an International Practice Development Colloquium, and is currently working as an Honorary Associate Professor with Monash University in promoting a new Masters in PD, engagement in a PD round table and in sharing her experience of Practice Development with practitioners of all levels to bring about transformation through human flourishing.

Dr Angie Titchen, DPhil (Oxon), MSc, MCSP

Clinical Chair, Knowledge Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Fontys University of Applied Science, The Netherlands

Visiting Professor, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Formerly Senior Research and Practice Development Fellow, Royal College of Nursing, UK

Angie is passionate about practice development and doing research critically and creatively. Her practice development work is rooted in clinical experience as a physiotherapist, where she worked with people who had neurological problems. An MSc in Rehabilitation Studies at the University of Southampton prepared her for more scholarly approach to practice development and opened doors into research at Mary Marlborough Lodge, in Oxford, and then into being the Continuing Education Consultant at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Subsequently, she was appointed by the Institute of Nursing, Oxford, in 1989, to undertake an action research project with nurses at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Together they transformed a task-focussed nursing service into a patient-centred one. She published extensively on their action research methodology and on the development of patient-centred practice.

This work was furthered by her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford for which she received the 1999 British Educational Research Association Award for the best PhD thesis awarded by a British university. Since then she has published widely in the field of health care on: the nature of professional practice, evidence and professional knowledge and its acquisition; the facilitation of experiential learning, practitioner-research, expertise and professional artistry and; the experience of critical and creative qualitative research. Currently, Angie leads on the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of support for practice development and its facilitation. She also contributes significantly to the International Practice Development Collaborative testing and refinement of practice development methodological and theoretical frameworks, processes, outcomes and evaluation through practice-based research that is creative, person-centred and action oriented.

Nationally and internationally, she is collaborating with nursing, health professional and higher education colleagues to further her research in: person-centred health care; professional artistry; the use of creative imagination and expression in facilitation, research and practice development and; holistic evidence-based practice and practitioner-research. For some years, she was an Honorary Research Associate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. Seeing our connection with nature as key in grounding herself and facilitating her creativity, she loves to walk, dance, practise Tai Chi and paint by a beautiful lake near her home in Oxfordshire.