Professor Mary Cruickshank is the Head, Disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery in the Faculty of Health. Mary is also Adjunct Professor, School of Health, University of New England and an Adviser to the Centre of Expertise on Leadership in Health Management, at Naresuan University, Thailand. She is a Registered Nurse and an experienced researcher in the healthcare field who has supervised many PhD candidates to successful completion. Mary has published widely plus she is a peer reviewer for several national and international journals.

Areas of Teaching

• Research Methods
• Health Management
• Leadership and 
• Clinical Governance

Research interests

• Health care policy and reform 
• Primary health care 
• Workforce recruitment and retention 
• Organisational culture 
• Nursing education, leadership and clinical research

Recent Publications

• Parmenter, G. Cruickshank, M. & Hussain, R. 2011. The social lives of rural Australian nursing home residents, Ageing & Society, 31: 1-25.
• Briggs, D., Cruickshank, M., Campbell, S., Fisher, K., Fraser, J. & Tejativaddhana, P. 2010. Collaborative capacity building in applied health systems research. 7th Biennial Conference in Organisational Behaviour in Health Care. Mind the Gap: policy and practice in the reform of health care. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, 11-14 April. ISBN 978 07044 27389 http://www.hsmc.bham.ac.uk/events/Conference/2010-obhc-conference.shtml
• Briggs, D., Tejativaddhana, P., Cruickshank, M., Fraser, J. & Campbell, S. 2010. The Thai-Australian Health Alliance: Developing health management capacity and sustainability for primary health care services, Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice, The Journal of the Network: Towards Unity for Health, 23(3):1-7.
• Robinson-Reilly, M., Paliadelis, P. & Cruickshank, M. 2010. This won’t hurt a bit - the lived experience of venous access. Australian Nursing Journal, 18(4): 19.
• Parmenter, G. & Cruickshank, M. 2010. Visiting at Rural Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities: a review of the literature, Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 5(1): 62-67.
• Yanggratoke, S., Briggs, D., Alexander, C., Taytiwat, P., Cruickshank, M., Fraser, J., Ditton. & Gaul, M. 2010. The Thai-Australian Alliance: Developing a rural health management curriculum by participatory action research. World Health and Population, 11(3): 5-16.
• Westaway, K. & Cruickshank, M. Roberts, G. & Esterman, A. 2010. Factors influencing over-anticoagulation and bleeding in warfarin therapy during the initial five months of treatment, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 27(3): 4-12.
• Taytiwat, P., Briggs, D., Fraser, J., Minichiello, V. & Cruickshank, M. 2010. Lessons from understanding the role of community hospital director in Thailand: clinician versus manager. International Journal of Health Planning and Management. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/hpm.1040
• Robinson-Reilly, M., Paliadelis, P. & Cruickshank, M. 2009. The Lived Experience of Venous Access: More than a mossie bite, Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 5(2): A73-A278..
• Arif, M., Cruickshank, M. & Fraser, J. 2009. To migrate abroad or remain: A study of Pakistani physicians’ decision-making. Cahiers De Sociologie Et De Demographie Medicales (A bi-lingual and multidisciplinary journal on health services and systems research), 49(3):269-270, July-September.
• Robinson-Reilly, M., Paliadelis, P. & Cruickshank, M. 2009. The Lived Experience of Venous Access, Supportive Care in Cancer, 17(7), 936.