Janet Long

Biography

I am a health services researcher with interests in knowledge translation and social and professional networks. I have a range of quantitative and qualitative research skills including social network analysis, interviewing, focus groups, survey design and administration and analysis of continuous variables. Originally trained as a general registered nurse I have had a wide experience of patient care and management in acute care, theatre, outpatient, mental health, residential and community settings as well as clinical teaching. A career change at one point led to a science degree and research into effects of climate change on Australian native plants and invasive plants. Returning to nursing, my last clinical role was as a CNC at Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital. My PhD, with Jeffrey Braithwaite at UNSW, used social network analysis to evaluate how a new translational research network increased collaborative links across hospital and university silos. Currently I am working with two research groups: one implementing new understandings of best practice into community health services for people with a spinal cord injury, and one with the Translational Cancer Research Network (TCRN) looking at barriers to referrals for people suspected of having Lynch syndrome, a hereditary condition that puts one at high risk of cancer.

Research Interest

Health services