Associate Professor Lynne Barnes

Hi and welcome to my home page. I am the Associate Head: School of Nursing & Midwifery and the Dean: Teaching and Learning in the Division of Health Sciences. In addition to my administrative role I also engage in research and teaching, including supervision of Honours and PhD students who are enrolled in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

My broad research and teaching interests lie in aged care, mental health, issues of power and control, and research consumption and practice. I would be interested in hearing from you if you have similar interests.

• Research methods and methodology
• Information literacy
• Aged Care
• Health policy

Member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia

Member of the Australian Nursing Federation

Registered Nurse; Registered Mental Health Nurse; BN (hons); PhD

• Critical and postmodern research
• Education
• Aged care
• Categorisation and mental health

Robinson, A., Abbey, J., Abbey, B., Toye, C and Barnes, L. (2009) "Getting of to a good start? A multi-site study of orienting student nurses during aged care clinical placements" Nurse Education In Practice, Vol.9, Issue 1, pp.53-60

Barnes, L; Cheek, J; Nation, RL; Gilbert, A; Paradiso, L; Ballantyne, A. (2006). Making sure the residents get their tablets: medication administration in care homes for older people. Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol 56, Issue 2, pp 190-199.

Barnes L and Rudge T (2005) Virtual reality or real virtuality: the space of flows and nursing practice. Nursing Inquiry volume 12 (4) pp 306-315.

Young, J: Scutter, S & Barnes, L (2005) 'Including a voice': Trialling a tool to improve the educational experience of external nursing students, Refereed professional practice paper, Teaching and Learning Forum, Murdoch University, Western Australia, January. http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2005/refereed/young.html

Barnes, L; Scutter, S & Young, J (2005) ‘Using Screen Recording and Compression Software to Support Online Learning’ Innovate: journal of online education June/July Volume 1, Issue 5 http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=issue&id=5.

Barnes, L; Rudge, TK (2003) Co-operation and co-morbidity: dual diagnosis in rural South Australia Collegian vol. 10 (2), pages 25-28

Paradiso, LM; Roughead, EE; Gilbert, AL; Cosh, D; Nation, RL; Barnes, L; Cheek, J & Ballantyne, A (2002) Crushing or altering medications: what’s happening in residential aged care facilities? Australasian Journal on Ageing. 21 (3):123-133.

Barnes, L; Rudge, T (2002) Healthcare and Moral Categorisation. Conference proceedings of the Demoralization: Morality, Authority and Power Conference 5-6 April 2002 Cardiff University Wales UK.

Barnes, L 2000 ‘The social production of an enterprise clinic: nurses, clinical pathway guidelines and contemporary health care practices’ Nursing Inquiry, vol 7: 200-8

Barnes, L 1998 ‘Mission impossible: musings on a post-graduate research project’ Nursing Inquiry, vol 5: 285-6.