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Research Biography

Professor Gillian (Gill) Harvey is Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Implementation Research in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Deputy Director ofthe Caring Futures Institute with lead responsibility for Knowledge Translation. She is an Adjunct Professor of Implementation Science at Queensland University of Technology andan Affiliated Researcher at Dalarna University in Sweden.  

Previously Professor Harvey has held academic positions in Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester and most recently in Adelaide Nursing School, University of Adelaide. Prior to working in academia, she was Director of the UK Royal College of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Program and Director of the National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE) National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care. During her career, Professor Harvey has produced five books and over 160 academic outputs. She has been a Chief Investigator on over 20 research grants in the last 5 years, including grants awarded by the NHMRC, MRFF and overseas funders such as the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

Qualifications

PhD Nursing, London South Bank University, UK

B Nursing, University of Manchester, UK

Research impact

Professor Harvey is one of the developers of the widely used implementation science frameworks, PARIHS and i-PARIHS. The original Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework, published in 1998, has over 1000 citations in Scopus. In 2015, the PARIHS framework was revised to produce the integrated or i-PARIHS framework, described in the 2015 book ‘Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare’.

Research interest

  • Implementation science
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Quality Improvement
  • Improving care across systems

Honours, awards and grants

  • Recognised as a highly cited researcher in the Social Sciences Category of the 2014 Thomson-Reuters high citation list
  • Stanford University top 2% scientist, 2022
  • NHMRC Assigners Academy Member (2017, 2018)
  • Visiting Fellow, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (2018 – 2021)
  • Florence Nightingale Foundation ‘Edith Cavell Travel Scholarship’ (2000)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Nursing Quality: An evaluation of key factors in the implementation process, London South Bank University

Award Date: 1 Dec 1993

Bachelor, Bachelor of Nursing, University of Manchester

Award Date: 1 Jun 1985

External positions

Affiliated Researcher, Dalarna University

26 Oct 2020 → …

Adjunct Professor of Implementation Science, Queensland University of Technology

1 Jan 2017 → …

Supervision

  • Registered

Research Areas

  • Knowledge translation and implementation science
  • Nursing

Supervisory Interests

  • Evidence based implementation
  • Evidence based practice
  • Healthcare, quality improvement
  • Knowledge translation

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