Rate My Professor Robert Batterbee

Robert Batterbee serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing within the College of Health and Education at Murdoch University. He holds the position of Academic Chair for the Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Mental Health (course code C1166). His academic qualifications include a BSc (Hons), Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (PGDip CBT), registration as a nurse (RN), credentialing as a Mental Health Nurse, and a PhD awarded in 2024. The PhD thesis, titled 'Nursing education, transformative learning, and critical reflection: A cognitive behavioural approach,' was conducted through Central Queensland University and Murdoch University. Batterbee brings extensive clinical experience as a mental health nurse, having practiced in primary care settings across the United Kingdom and Australia. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Batterbee's research focuses on integrating cognitive behavioural techniques into nursing education to enhance critical reflection and transformative learning, with particular emphasis on mental health nursing curricula. He originated a cognitive behavioural model of reflection, evaluated in a 2025 mixed-methods study published in Nurse Education Today. This research involved 421 undergraduate nursing students across two campuses and demonstrated superior outcomes in transformative learning compared to traditional reflection methods. Notable publications include 'The use of a cognitive behavioural model of reflection to facilitate transformative learning in undergraduate nursing education: The quantitative results of a mixed methods study' (Nurse Education Today, 2025, with Julie Bradshaw, Andrew Frost, Susan Hunt); 'An alternative approach to critical reflection in mental health nursing: The cognitive behavioural model' (2023); 'The inclusion of cognitive behavioural therapeutic techniques in undergraduate mental health nursing curricula' (Nurse Education Today, 2020); and co-authorship in 'Presence in Mental Health Nursing' (2025, with Catherine Hungerford and Karen Heslop). Additional outputs encompass the book chapter 'Living with depression' and supervision of master's theses such as 'Required wound care content for nursing curricula in Australia' (2022) and 'Exploring the Lived Experiences of Male Spouse Caregivers' (2024). Batterbee contributes to recovery-oriented language in mental health nursing and has discussed UK mental health models in regional media.