Dr Colleen Smith

Welcome to my home page. I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Division of Health Sciences and currently in the role of Acting Associate Head of School. My research and teaching interests include immunisation, teaching and learning, critical thinking and reflection, I have a particular interest in Public Health especially in developing countries. I have experience in teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate programs both onshore and offshore in Malaysia and Singapore. I also supervise students undertaking Honours and PhD studies and have examined theses at honours and masters level. My PhD was a feminist poststructural look at nurse-patient relationships in acute care settings. I have a particular interest and experience in program design and development. I have recently led the redevelopment of the Bachelor of Nursing using and inquiry-based learning approach for face-to-face and online delivery. I have undertaken consultancies with a number of organisations including a World Health Organisation (WHO) consultancy in China. This spanned for a period of 3 years and involved the development of training materials for Immunisation Providers and Village Doctors, trialling of the materials and the implementation of training programs in Gansu Province and Qinghai Province. It also included and evaluation project whereby I returned to China to provide expert advice on evaluation of the immunisation training program. I was also involved in a WHO consultancy in Geneva to develop global training materials for Managers of Immunisation Services. I have conducted training programs on participatory training methods and immunisation (EPI) in Thanh Hoa Province Vietnam for IRIS (AIHI-PATH) and was consultant assisting with Training Provincial and District level staff of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam (CVP PATH)

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Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Southern Cross University

• Master of Education Deakin University

• Bachelor of Education South Australian College of Advanced Education

• Diploma of Teaching (Nurse Education) South Australian College of Advanced Education