Nursing research snapshot
Dr Kathy Ahern - Nursing - The University of Queensland
k.ahern@uq.edu.au
My areas of research expertise
- Mental health nursing
- Child and family
- Whistle blowing
- Nursing Education
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Questionnaire design
- Quantitative
- Content analysis
- Phenomenology
- Q sort
Areas that I am currently researching
- Envy and workplace bullying
- Beliefs of effective teachers of the disabled
- Postgraduate supervision
- Child homicide
- Beliefs in mental health nurses
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Any topic. I am a research methodologist and I am more interested in fitting the research question to the methodology rather than any particular substantive area
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- International data collection using instruments my postgraduate students have developed, e.g. 'types' of mental health nurses based on beliefs about a quality therapeutic relationship, relationship between envy and workplace bullying
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- I don't like flying, so I tend not to travel
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- I would enjoy being a co-supervisor of postgraduate students from another university (via email) and my students would benefit from having an international co-supervisor
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