Lynne's PhD in Management is from Macquarie University, Sydney, where her thesis entitled The Process and Organisational Consequences of New Artefact Adoption in Surgery was awarded the prestigious Vice-Chancellor's Commendation. She undertook a collective case study that explored the impact of new surgical technologies on work in operating theatre services between 1988 and 1998 and the processes whereby decisions are made to adopt new technologies. Other tertiary qualifications include a Bachelor of Health Science (Management) (graduating with the Charles Sturt University Medal), a Graduate Diploma in Health Economics (University of New England), a Graduate Diploma in Commerce (Business Information Systems) (University of Wollongong), and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership (Higher Education) (Macquarie University). She is a Fellow of both the Australian College of Health Service Executives and the Royal College of Nursing, Australia, and is a long-standing member of the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses.
Lynne has individually published more than 25 articles/papers and two monographs, and has presented papers at over 30 conferences or seminars in recent years. She is on the editorial boards of the international Journal of Mixed Methods Research and the ACORN Journal and has undertaken invited reviews for a number of international journals. She has served on the Nurses' Board of Victoria Research Grant Review Board for the last few years.
Lynne's main research interest area is the impact of technological change on work in health services, particularly the work of nurses. She has supervised higher degree research for about five years, and her first professional doctoral candidate graduated in 2005. She has also been an examiner for UNSW and UTS PhD theses.
Lynne was a Visiting Research Fellow at De Montford University, Leicester, England for six months during 2003. During this time she was an invited participant in two large interdisciplinary research teams investigating various aspects of change within the British National Health System since the launch of the NHS Modernization Agenda in 2001. In one project involving a collaboration between DMU and Imperial College, University of London, she undertook much of the qualitative data collection at a large hospital Trust in London. The other project involved the NHS Modernization Agency Research into Practice team.
Outside the university, Lynne is actively involved as a consumer representative in numerous local, regional and state health planning activities. On the personal front, she is married with four adult children. She plays piano and has been involved, on a semi-professional basis, as an accompanist for many years.
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