Associate Professor PATRICIA BUCKLEY

DipAppSc (CommHlthNsg) (SACAE), BN (SACAE), GradDipHlthAdmin (SAIT), MEd(HRS) (UniSA), DocOrgDyn (Swin)

Ph +61 3 9214 4375
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Room AGSE3112
pbuckley@swin.edu.au

Associate Professor Trish Buckley was formely Senior Lecturer at the AGSE and responsible for the Leadership and Organisation stream of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation program. She also taught in the Master of Business Administration and supervised students undertaking the Integrating Project in this award.

Associate Professor Buckley's academic background is in teaching and researching management, human resource studies and organisation dynamics. Much of this work has taken place in health care where she has held roles in community health, rural health and aged care. She held the position of National Director of the Australian Rural Health Research Institute, a consortia formed by five universities from around Australia, with its headquarters at Monash University. She has acted as a consultant within the residential aged care industry in the public and private sectors. This work has included reviews of operations, physical design of facilities, staffing and residents' satisfaction.

Associate Professor Buckley's research interests include the relationship between the physical environment and organisation culture, action learning and action research and organisation role analysis.

Trish Buckley is currently on study leave until Juen 2009.