Prof. Rose Mceldowney
Head of School
Research Centre for health and wellbeing
Charles Darwin University
Australia
Biography
Professor Rose McEldowney has extensive practical and management experience from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) in New Zealand, where she managed and taught tertiary nursing, midwifery and health programs in partnership with practice. Prof McEldowney originally trained as a nurse and has broad practical experience across mental health, primary health, palliative, surgical and postnatal nursing. Professor McEldowney has broad interests across health care and said she enjoyed applying academia to the evolving and dynamic roles of nursing, midwifery and allied health. She has also spent many years setting up primary health care, degrees in nursing and midwifery and postgraduate courses in partnership with Indigenous peoples.
Research Interest
Narrative inquiry (life story, oral history, autobiography) Hermeneutics Phenomenology Critical and feminist inquiry
