Nurses wishing to undertake research and to investigate nursing and midwifery practice problems from within the health care delivery environment are encouraged to apply. Principal areas of research include nursing therapies and practices; nursing information systems and nursing informatics; health informatics; community health and primary health care; health promotion; rural health practice and issues; issues of professionalism; nursing education practices; client/patient perspectives of pain/illness/nursing care; ethical/moral issues; health service delivery models; legal issues, nursing interventions; nursing informatics; and advanced nursing practice. Both campuses offer the research award.
Applicants
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must have obtained either a bachelors
degree with honours I or IIA in a relevant field or a masters degree
which contains a significant research component in a relevant field.
The degree normally requires three years of full-time study or the part-time
equivalent.
Intending applicants should write to the head of the School of Nursing,
enclosing a curriculum vitae and a synopsis of the proposed research.
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