Rate My Professor Rhonda Wilson

Professor Rhonda Wilson, a Wiradjuri woman, is an experienced nurse and internationally recognised mental health nursing scientist holding a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New England. She serves as Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where she is also Deputy Head of School (Central Coast Campus) and Head of the School’s Indigenous Portfolio. A Registered Nurse and Credentialled Mental Health Nurse in Australia, she has over three decades of experience as a clinical nurse, researcher, and academic in Australia, New Zealand, and Denmark. She returned to Australia in 2019 after working as Associate Professor of E Mental Health and Head of Research for the Telepsychiatric Centre at the University of Southern Denmark from 2016 to 2019. Previous roles include Professor of Nursing at Massey University, Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Canberra, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England, and Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of New England.

Professor Wilson’s research specializations encompass digital health, e-mental health, and precision digital therapeutics to enhance recovery and wellbeing, with a focus on hard-to-reach populations in regional and rural communities, particularly young people and Indigenous peoples, through her Technology Enhanced Mental Health Lab. Key publications include co-authorship of the textbook Mental Health 3ed: A Person-Centred Approach (2022), Mental Health: A Person-Centred Approach second edition (2017) and first edition (2013), and chapters such as ‘E-Mental Health’ (2017) and ‘Digital Clinical Decision Making in Nursing’ (2019). In 2018, a co-edited textbook was awarded Best Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource – Blended Learning at the National Educational Publishing Awards. She serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, acts as a scientific assessor for the National Health and Medical Research Council and the European Research Council, and is a member of the Australian Nurses and Midwives Registered Nurse Course Accreditation Committee. Her work in Denmark led to national adoption of routine telepsychiatric treatment, scaled for COVID-19 response, and she supervises higher degree research students while promoting Indigenous health scholarship.