Linda is a proud Wiradjuri woman who has over 35 years' experience in the nursing profession and has a wide range of nursing expertise having worked in specialities such as aged care, primary health care, emergency care, peri-operative care, forensic nursing, leadership and nursing management. Linda has experience in both the public and private sector of the health industry. Currently Linda is the Head of School, Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences at Charles Sturt University. Prior to joining the Charles Sturt team, Linda worked for over 10 years in senior nursing leadership and management roles ranging from Nurse Unit Manager to District Director of Nursing and Midwifery. Linda has a keen interest in Indigenous health and nursing workforce issues and completed a PhD on this topic through Charles Sturt University (CSU). Linda has multiple qualifications in nursing and affirms a strong commitment to nursing education and building a skilled nursing workforce for the future.

Linda has a keen interest in nursing and health research and has a PhD  in Indigenous nursing workforce and education. Her research interests include; rurla and remote health workforce, Indigneous health, leadership and management, chronic care, palliative care.

Linda joined the Charles Sturt University academic staff on a full time basis in 2015. Currently Linda is the Head of School for the School of Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences within the Faculty of Science and Health at Charles Sturt. Linda's contribution to teaching and learning at the university level is demonstrated in the following ways;

• Leading and developing curriculum for undergraduate and post graduate courses
• Convening and teaching into courses at the undergraduate and post graduate level
• Utilising a range of teaching strategies to support student learning within the online and face to face environment
• Participating in ongoing professional development as a way to discover new and innovative ways to teach which support student learning in a range of environments

Linda has taught in and has an interest in the following areas of nursing: rural and remote health, nursing leadership and management, nursing workforce and organisational culture, Indigenous health, aged care, palliative care, chronic care, nursing research, practice development, and disaster management.

A highlight of Linda's career in academia has been the publication of the textbook – Chronic Care Nursing: A framework for practice. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the role of the nurse in dealing with chronic conditions across a variety of health care settings in Australia and New Zealand. This textbook was developed to support undergraduate nurses to understand the complexity of this area of nursing and how this applies to practice.