Speaker Details

Professor Karen Strickland

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. 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. 

Karen is the Chair of the Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (Australia and New Zealand) (CDNM), 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. She is recognized as an expert in the field of cancer, palliative and aged care through various appointments including as invited member of the Professorial Advisory Council of the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia and a Visiting Professor appointment with Auckland University of Technology.