Karen is registered nurse currently working in the Curtin School of Nursing as Associate Professor (Teaching & Research) and Deputy Head of School. Karens research focus is to establish a sustainable nurse led mental health clinic within the primary care setting to provide real world clinical experience for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students and to conduct research into nurse led models of mental health and primary health care.

Dr Elizabeth Brogan is a Senior Lecturer at UTS and a registered nurse with over 21 years of experience in nursing and education. She has extensive expertise in curriculum development and implementation across clinical and tertiary settings and coordinates both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing subjects. Elizabeth’s PhD research focused on the health behaviours of new graduate nurses and led to the development of Start Healthy & Stay Healthy—a workplace health promotion program designed to support new graduate nurses in adopting healthy eating and physical activity behaviours during their transition to practice. Her research aims to enhance new graduates’ capability, opportunity, and motivation to prioritise their health from career commencement. Elizabeth's interests include implementation science, health behaviour change, and the development of workplace interventions. She also researches nursing students' attitudes towards people with obesity and regularly presents at professional conferences, with publications including several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.

Daniel Terry has extensive research experience in rural health, rural workforce, and chronic-ill health. His research includes are rural health workforce which incorporates nursing student career trajectory, rural medical, nursing and pharmacy employment and profession longevity, while also examining workforce grit and thriving, while improving workforce learning through communities of practice.

Amanda is a senior nurse lecturer at the University of Canberra and an experienced nephrology nurse with a passion for sustaining the renal nursing workforce and improving the lives of people living with kidney failure, as evidenced by her current research and publications. Amanda is currently researching the burdens of domestic, international and mature-aged nursing students' experiences when studying.