Rate My Professor Monica Lawrence

Ms Monica Lawrence serves as a Casual Researcher, Casual Teaching Lecturer, and Casual Employee in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the College of Health at Adelaide University. As a research assistant at the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre (RBRC), a collaborative initiative between the University of South Australia and the Rosemary Bryant Foundation focused on strengthening the nursing and midwifery workforce through evidence-based healthcare, partnerships, policy influence, and research capacity building, she also acts as the program developer and mentor for the Deadly Outstanding Workforce Leadership Research Program. Lawrence has recently submitted her PhD titled "Cultural Safety in clinical, teaching and research practice in Australian Indigenous health. An auto-ethnography." Her extensive background includes 15 years of curriculum development and instruction in Indigenous health and cultural safety across disciplines such as nursing, midwifery, allied health, and medicine. Prior to her academic roles, she worked as a remote area clinical nurse in various Aboriginal Primary Health Care Clinics in the Northern Territory and Cape York, Far North Queensland.

Lawrence's research interests center on advancing the nursing and midwifery disciplines and patient care in areas including population and public health, workforce reform, safety and quality, clinical practice, patient outcomes, and the integration of research evidence into educational practices. She is dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of nurses and midwives to cultivate resilient, sustainable, and collaborative workforces, alongside contributing to health system planning, evaluation, resourcing, clinical care outcomes, and evidence translation into practice. At Adelaide University, she teaches a range of courses such as NURS 1003 Social and Political Determinants of Health (2026), HLTH 1036 Global and National Health (2025), HLTH 1063 Aboriginal Health: Culture, Community and Country (2025, 2024), HLTH 1047 First Peoples' Health (2024), and SCCHS 90013 Professional Certificate: The Outstanding Workforce Leaders (OWL) Research Program SC (2025). A notable publication co-authored by Lawrence is Reilly, R., Micklem, J., Yerrell, P., Banham, D., Morey, K., Stajic, J., et al. (2018). Aboriginal experiences of cancer and care coordination: lessons from the Cancer Data and Aboriginal Disparities (CanDAD) narratives. Health Expectations, 21(5), 927-936.