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Professor Karen Strickland

RN, PhD, MSc, PGCert, BSC, FHEA, FEANS, MACN

Professor Karen Strickland is Executive Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia. As Executive Dean she is the executive leader of the School and is accountable to the Vice-Chancellor for its effective leadership and management. As a member of the University Executive, she also provides strategic leadership to the wider University and undertakes a strong engagement role nationally and internationally. An experienced academic nurse leader with significant clinical, academic and research experience across the health, higher education, and social service sectors in the UK, Karen has held several senior higher education leadership roles, as Associate Head of School at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Head of School of Nursing, Midwifery & Public Health, at the University of Canberra.

Professor Karen Strickland has been a member of Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (Australia and New Zealand) (CDNM) since 2018, with an Executive role since 2019. The CDNM is the peak organisation representing all 39 Schools of Nursing and Midwifery that offer approved programs of study leading to registration as a nurse or midwife in Australia and New Zealand. In October 2021 Karen was elected Chair of the CDNM from Oct 2021. Karen led the development and implementation of the CDNM Aspiring Deans Leadership Development Program to support the capacity and capability of academic leaders across Australia and New Zealand.

Karen is recognized as an expert in the field of cancer, palliative and aged care through various appointments including as invited member of the Professional Advisory Council of the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia and a Visiting Professor appointment with Auckland University of Technology.  Karen’s expertise as an education leader is internationally recognized through various roles including international education consultancy for both program and institutional level accreditations. She is also an accreditation consultant for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council.

Karen has held a number of board level appointments including Non-Executive Director of Ovarian Cancer Australia (current), and previously Board Chair to Canberra College in the ACT, as member of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia ACT Board and as Non-Executive Director of Alcohol and Drugs Action, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Professor Strickland holds a Bachelor of Science (Nursing) from University of Abertay, Scotland, a Master of Science (Nursing) from Manchester University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education from Edinburgh Napier University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and the European Academy of Nursing Science and member of the Australian College of Nursing.

Executive Officer
Samantha Broadhurst
Telephone: (+61 8) 6304 2400
Email: s.broadhurst@ecu.edu.au

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