Faculty of Health

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Paul Bennett

Position Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email p.bennett@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Nursing and Midwifery
Phone +61 3 92517847
Campus Burwood


Role and profile
Paul Bennett is the Associate Professor at the Deakin – Southern Health Nursing Research Centre. Paul’s main role is to provide research leadership for the Southern Health-Deakin partnership. Current areas of Southern Health research are nursing governance, nephrology nursing and self management.


Teaching responsibilities
Paul is Unit Chair of Leadership and Management in Nursing HNN715.


Research interests
Paul’s research focus is around exercise, nutrition and self management, particularly for people living with chronic kidney disease. Other areas of recent published scholarship have been technological intimacy, health and educational technologies, nursing workforce, paired academic peer review and interprofessional education.




Awards and prizes
In the past five years Associate Professor Bennett has been the recipient of two teaching, two research and three industry awards.


Memberships
International Academy of Nurse Editors
World Association of Medical Editors
American Nephrology Nurses Association
Australian Industry Skills Council
Royal College of Nursing Australia
Renal Society of Australasia
National Tertiary Education Union
Nephrology Education Network
South Australian Renal Nurses Education Group
South Australian Renal Clinical Network – Research Subcommittee

Renal Society of Australasia (RSA) Committees
Research Coordinator (S.A. Branch)
Executive Committee (Federal and S.A. Branch)
Chief Editor Renal Society of Australasia Journal
Renal Society of Australasia Conference Scientific Committee

Kidney Health Australia Committees
Chair: Kidney Health Australia Nursing Scholarships Committee
Member: Kidney Health Australia Medical and Scientific Committee

Editorial Board Memberships
Journal of Renal Care (European EDTNA/ERCA) (ERA = A)
Renal Society of Australasia Journal (Chair)

Reviewer
Journal of Advanced Nursing (ERA = A)
International Journal of Nursing Studies (ERA = A)
Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (NDT) (ERA = A)
Journal of Renal Care (European EDTNA/ERCA) (ERA = A)
Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness
United Kingdom Kidney Research Grants



Service to the University, discipline or community
Paul is Foundation Editor of the Renal Society of Australasia Journal and Foundation Chair of the Kidney Health Australia Nursing Grants Program.


Conferences
Bennett, PN 2011 Satellite Dialysis Nurse-Performed Nutritional Screening Tool: A Randomised Control Trial. Oral. . 39th Annual Renal Society of Australasia Conference. Adelaide SA. 8 – 11 June

Bennett PN. 2011. Motivational presentations. Invited. 2nd Nephrology Educators Network Conference Melbourne 17-18 Feb.

Bennett, PN 2010 Bridging the gap between clinical practice and publication. Oral. 8th International Academy of Nurse Editors International Conference, 5th- 7th August Coolum, QLD

Sinclair, PM & Bennett, PN 2010 The Nephrology Educators’ Network: Transcending geographical and organizational barriers. Poster. American Nephrology Nurses’ Association 41st National Symposium, San Antonio, Texas 2-5 May

Polaschek, N., Bennett, PN. & McNeill, L. 2010 Developing the Dialysis Workforce: Implications of the 2010 Australian and New Zealand Workforce Study. Oral. European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association 39th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 September

Bennett, PN. 2010 Characteristics of successful dialysis exercise programs. Oral. 38th Annual Renal Society of Australasia Conference. Cairns, QLD. 3 – 5 June

Bennett, PN 2009 Community dialysis nursing: A critical ethnography. Oral. Health in Transition 4th International Conference on Community Health Nursing Research Adelaide 16-20 August

Bennett, PN 2009 Critical Appraisal of Evidence Based Practice. Invited. 1st Nephrology Educators Network Conference Sydney July 27th-28th

Bennett, PN 2008 Bridging the gap between clinical practice and publication. Invited. Transplant Nurses Association/Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association Conference Sydney August 8th-9th

Bennett PN 2008 'Bad bridge building: a critical examination of Kt/V and nephrology nursing'. Oral. 37th EDTNA/ERCA International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 6-9 September

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6th July 2012