Amanda is an experienced academic who values strong industry connections and the opportunity to contribute to the development of future generations of nurses and the nursing profession.
Amanda is the Postgraduate Course Coordinator and a Lecturer in the School of Nursing, at the Queensland University of Technology. She is a Registered Nurse with a strong clinical nursing background across a variety of settings. Amanda is an experienced academic who values strong industry connections and the opportunity to contribute to the development of future generations of nurses and the nursing profession. Amanda has extensive teaching experience across both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses at QUT. In 2014, Amanda was appointed the Coordinator of the Queensland Health Nurse Endoscopy Programs, the first of their kind in Australia. Amanda’s research interest lies in health service innovation, advanced practice nursing and dementia. Her PhD thesis examined factors influencing sustainability of health service innovation, in particular emergency nurse practitioner services. More recent research has examined Nurse Endoscopy and Learning and Teaching initiatives that support Advanced Practice Nursing career pathways.

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