Rate My Professor Karen Adams

Under Adams’ direction, Indigenous student enrolments in the faculty rose from 55 in 2015 to 103 in 2019, an 87% increase. She developed the evidence-based Allies in Indigenous Health curriculum, yielding mean student satisfaction of 4.2 out of 5 and improvements in attitudes, confidence, knowledge, and critical thinking. Key projects encompass the Growing Indigenous Graduates Program, ADHD research in Indigenous Australian children using the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, cognitive skill development via digital training, and objective structured clinical exams for internationally qualified nurses. Her 82 research outputs include “Truth-telling is required for health equity for Aboriginal peoples: A qualitative study” (2025, International Journal of Nursing Studies), “Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis” (2025, Critical Policy Studies), “Yarning about e-mental health tools: First Nations Australian youth perspectives of well-being and e-health” (2024, AlterNative), and “Colonial shapeshifting: Re-remembering medical education’s burden on Indigenous peoples” (2023, Medical Education). Adams received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion and the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2018 for the NUR1013 Teaching Team. She mentors Indigenous researchers, convenes the Indigenous Health Graduate Research Circle, and serves as Senior Editor for First Nations Health and Wellbeing.