Dr Kalpana Raghunathan is a Research Fellow and Senior Project Officer. Her research involvements include projects in health professions education, workforce development and digital health. Her educational background encompasses sociology, international development, human resource development, education development, and change management.

Liz is an experienced midwife with a background in both hospital and community-based care, as well as in the tertiary education sector. Over the years, she has developed a passion for supporting midwives in practice and in learning, which has led to roles in research, adult education, teaching, and curriculum development. Liz also contributes to the profession as an educator with the New Zealand College of Midwives and works closely with the Midwifery Council as a competence reviewer and supervisor.

Associate Professor Adam Burston the Head of Discipline (Nursing) at the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine Australian Catholic University, and Research Fellow at the Nursing Research & Practice Development Centre, The Prince Charles Hospital. Adam’s research areas include Nursing Workforce, Acute Care, Aged Care Nursing, Pressure Injury, Bioethics, and Higher Education, and he is an active supervisor for HDR students and mentor for nursing academics. He is currently co-lead on an Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia grant investigating technology to improve communication and trust between families of aged care residents and nurses, and team member on a Victorian Nurses and Midwives Trust Major Grant investigating the use of standardised nursing terminology in electronic nursing care plans. Completing his PhD on moral distress in the aged care nursing workforce, Adam continues to research in ethics with current projects exploring the effectiveness of ethics education, student moral character, and academics experience of moral distress. As the Research Fellow at the Nursing Research & Practice Development Centre (TPCH), Adam is engaged in all aspects of the centres work including as an appointed member of the TPCH Research Council. Current pressure injury (PI) research here includes projects on patient experiences of severe pressure injury, inter-rater reliability of PI risk assessment tools, incidence of PI following cardiac surgery, and a series of systematic reviews analysing the psychometric properties of PI risk assessment tools.

Christine has been a midwife for 30 years. Currently she is the Conjoint Professor of Midwifery Research between UTS and NSLHD and an NHMRC Research Fellow investigating Clinical Supervision and its ability to support midwives. Previous roles include Director of Midwifery Studies and Discipline Lead within the Faculty of Health at UTS, Research Fellow with the UTS-based World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, and Clinical Midwifery Consultant at St George Hospital. She is the immediate past co-lead of the Maternal and Women’s Clinical Academic Group for SPHERE (2019-2023). Her published work comprises papers on normal birth after caesarean section, evaluations of simulation activities for midwifery students, maternal and neonatal outcomes from publicly-funded homebirth models of care, and health system strengthening in Papua New Guinea amongst many others. Her current research focus is on workplace culture in midwifery and supportive strategies to maintain the workforce.