Our Leadership

Professor Bec Golley

Director and Dean of Research

Cares about ensuring the places people live, learn, work, eat and play support health, development and wellbeing.

Rebecca is a Matthew Flinders Fellow and nationally recognised expert in childhood obesity prevention and nutrition promotion. She has undertaken postdoctoral research in the UK and with Australian agencies such as the CSIRO funded by the NHMRC and National Heart Foundation.

Rebecca leads a program of public health nutrition research at Flinders University. Rebecca is Chief Investigator on major research projects into children’s nutrition, health and development and obesity prevention worth over $5.8M. With over 100 publications and a H index of 36, Rebecca’s research impacts include citations in guidelines, scale up of evidence-informed programs, commissioned reports, tools and resources.  Rebecca develops strong partnerships with government and industry that shapes her research program and facilitates translation into practice.

She was a Founding Member of the National Nutrition Network for Early Childhood Education and Care, and is the Chair of the Dietetic and Nutrition Research Leaders Network, and Member, Council of Deans in Nutrition and Dietetics.

Professor Alison Kitson

Foundation Director and Program Lead Caring Life Course Theory

Cares about generating and getting new knowledge from research into the hearts and hands of people who make decisions about resources, run organisations and who deliver and receive care.

Alison is an internationally recognised leader in nursing and knowledge translation research. Alison has research colleagues across the globe who collaborate on the frontiers of health care research and its translation into practice and policy. She is the inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University and also led the establishment of the Caring Futures Institute.

Alison is passionate about recognising care's impact on individual and population health and wellbeing. Her mission is to change how society thinks about and invests in care and caring solutions. She believes this can be done through innovative and collaborative approaches based on research evidence and in partnership with decision-makers and users of care services.   She is proud to be a ‘disruptive’ and ‘fearless’ leader in the global mission to have care valued, respected, recognised and researched in order to make patients’ experiences more consistent and to be celebrated.

Professor Gillian (Gill) Harvey

Deputy Director (Knowledge Translation)

Cares about implementing research evidence to improve systems and processes of health and care delivery.

She has a professional background in nursing and undertakes research in the areas of implementation science and facilitating evidence-based practice in health care.

Gill has a strong career background in the UK in previous roles including working as the Director of the Royal College of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Programme, Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care and Professor of Health Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

In 2014, she was named as a Thomson-Reuters highly cited researcher, particularly for her work with colleagues on developing and testing a widely used conceptual framework for implementation, known as PARIHS (Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services). Gill has 214 publications on Google Scholar with an H-index 50, being cited over 19,200 times.

Professor Frances Lin

Deputy Director (Programmatic Development)

Cares about improving translating research evidence into practice to improve the quality and safety of patient care in acute and critical care settings.

Frances is internationally recognised for her work in implementation science and quality and safety health services research in critical care. With close partnerships, and strong support from many health services, universities and professional organisations, her current program of research focuses to “unblock” the bed block issues in intensive care, including delayed admissions into, and delayed discharges from ICU.

Frances is a strategic leader who strives to build nursing research capacity. She believes in the benefits of mentorship, for both mentor and mentee. Frances is the Inaugural Nursing Chair Professor of Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, and the Associate Editor for Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (#1 by impact factor for critical care nursing in 2022).

Xing Lee

Research Partnerships Development Director

Cares about progressive collaborative and impactful research in the field of healthcare

Xing joined the Caring Futures Institute as our Research Partnership Development Director in 2022. Xing comes from a legal background and has worked closely with senior executives in the tertiary and healthcare sectors for over eight years. Previously, Xing managed QUT’s Centre for Healthcare Transformation, one of the largest health services research centres in Queensland, and led development work for key university infrastructure. He has also secured key partnerships to support Category 1-4 research and implemented university-wide research policies to streamline grant processes.

Anthea Schubert

Institute Manager

Cares about supporting the conduct, dissemination and implementation of quality research that improves health and wellbeing for all.

Anthea joined Flinders University in 2021 as the Institute Manager of the Caring Futures Institute. She has a Master’s in Business Administration and brings over a decade of experience working with the Joanna Briggs Institute and its international network of collaborating centres.

Anthea is responsible for the overall strategic, operational, financial, professional staff and research management of the Caring Futures Institute. She works with the Institute executive team, researchers and other stakeholders to support the growth, development and promotion of the Institute nationally and globally.

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