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| Dr Edward White is a Director of Osman Consulting Pty Ltd, a health care research and biostatistical consulting company, based in Sydney, Australia, and Conjoint Professor at the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales |
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- He holds three higher research degrees; a Doctor of Philosophy degree and two Masters degrees, one in Social Policy, the other in Social Research, in addition to Registered and community mental health nursing and postgraduate teaching qualifications
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- He was previously a senior university academic and, for 12 years, was a research Professor in three Universities; two in Australia, one in England
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- He is a Fellow of three Australian Colleges and has twice been a Florence Nightingale Scholar, in Italy and Australia. He has held membership of the Health Sciences Research Grant Review Panel of the National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra and as an NHMRC Assessor. Before that, he was an Assessor for the Research Grants Scheme, Economic and Social Research Council, England
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- He is the immediate past Director, Board of Research, Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses Inc [2001-7]
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- He has personally attracted the equivalent of over A$2,400,000 in competitive external research funding
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- He has over 80 personal literary outputs [excluding published book reviews and public letters], including edited textbooks, book chapters and peer reviewed research articles and has given over 120 major conference presentations [excluding internal seminars and presentations and other University teaching commitments] at local, interstate and overseas venues, including China, France, Holland, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, United Kingdom and Uganda
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- He been an Editorial Board member of several professional and research journals and is presently an International Advisor, Journal of Research in Nursing, published by Sage, London. He is a pre-publication Manuscript Referee for seven publishing houses
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- He is very well networked at national and international levels, and has a sound working knowledge of the linkage arrangements between the health care industry and governmental agencies, together with a convincing experience of the necessary nexus between research, policy, education, management and clinical practice development
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- In addition to substantial research project management and consultancy experience, he has broad methodological expertise and interests, including large scale surveys and governmental national censuses, and personal semi-structured interviews/focus group facilitation, and the analyses thereof. In substantive terms, his personal research interests relate to health services research per se and to mental health and the efficacy of support mechanisms in professional practice, in particular. For example, he was Joint Director, the national Clinical Supervision Evaluation Project funded by the Department of Health, England and, with fellow Osman Consulting Director [Winstanley], is Joint Chief Investigator, the randomised controlled trial Clinical Supervision, funded by the Queensland Treasury. Both studies are acknowledged as ground breaking
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- As career social researcher, he has developed a personal reputation for methodological rigour and for keeping projects on-line, on-time and within budget
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- Full curriculum vitae available, on request
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