Associate Professor Cathleen Aspinall

PhD, MSc, PG Cert Academic Practice, RN

Cathleen has held leadership roles in the NHS in England and Aotearoa, New Zealand and has a clinical background in trauma orthopaedics. Her PhD research explored developing and empowering nurses as leaders using an intersectional perspective. Her career focus is on developing research careers for nurses and the integration of quality fundamental care into policy, practice, education, and research. She is currently the convenor for the Asia /Pacific regional network and a faculty member of the International Learning Collaborative (ILC).

With a focus on equity, she is actively researching the development and implementation of clinical academic roles for nurses along with patients' experiences of integrated fundamental care delivery, and strategies to teach and embed the fundamentals of care framework into nursing education and practice to improve patient outcomes. Cathleen has experience supervising research students through to completion.

Research interests

• Developing clinical academic nurses
• Intersectionality, workforce and leadership
• Relational care models utilising the Fundamentals of Care Framework

Research methodologies

• Qualitative methods
• Mixed methods

• International Learning Collaborative (ILC) Policy and Strategy Forum member
• Asia/Pacific ILC regional network convenor
• Honorary Lecturer University of Auckland

• Refer to Cathleen's researcher profile