Dean of the Faculty of Health 
& Behavioural Sciences

Professor Patrick Crookes

Professor Crookes is the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences and Head of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health.

Professor Crookes is a registered nurse in both the UK and Australia.   He gained a BSc (Nursing) from Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University) in 1981 and a PhD investigating ‘Personal Bereavement in Registered General Nurses from the University of Hull, in 1996.

Professor Crookes is a highly experienced educator. His 1998 text ‘Research Into Practice: essential skills for reading and applying research in nursing and health care’ co-edited with Sue Davies has gone into a second edition (2004); both of which were re-printed. This text is held by over 80 libraries internationally and has sold over 14,000 copies. The text stems from Professor Crookes’ teaching in this are for many years. This was formally recognised via the conferral of a Carrick Institute (now The Australian Teaching and Learning Council) ‘citation for significant contribution to teaching and learning’ in 2007.

He is passionate about research utilisation. His research interests also include Aged and Dementia Care, Grief and Bereavement, Clinical Leadership and Evidence Based Practice focussing on the best mechanisms for translating research findings into practice. He is currently undertaking a project funded by the ALTC, to devise a clinical assessment tool for use in pre-registration nursing programmes across Australia.

Professor Crookes has been a member of the Executive of the Australian and New Zealand Council of Deans of Nursing for the past 6 years, and is currently Chair.  He is a member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia.  He has held a visiting research fellowship with the University of Sheffield and was one of the founding Associate Editors of the international peer-reviewed journal “Nurse Education in Practice”.