Rate My Professor Hilary Floate

Prior to or concurrent with her lecturing position, Hilary Floate was a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. Her doctoral research centered on the effectiveness of large-scale unconditional cash transfer programmes in lower-income and middle-income countries, with a specific focus on pathways leading to nutritional change in households. This work highlights her academic interests in public health interventions and international development evaluation.

Floate's research outputs include the 2019 publication 'Cash transfer programmes in lower-income and middle-income countries: understanding pathways to nutritional change—a realist review protocol' in BMJ Open, co-authored with Geoffrey C. Marks and Jo Durham. In the same year, she co-authored 'Moving on from logical frameworks to find the "missing middle" in international development programmes' in the Journal of Development Effectiveness with Jo Durham and Geoffrey C. Marks, discussing improved approaches to programme evaluation.

As a registered nurse, Hilary Floate contributed a perspective piece to the Australian College of Nursing in 2020 titled 'Perspectives on men who care,' where she observed that men bring a different lens to nursing, demonstrating compassion and caring in a distinct manner from women.