Gabrielle Brand RN, BN, MN (Research) PhD, SFHEA
Professor and Director of Graduate Research
School of Nursing & Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine,
Nursing & Health Sciences,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Dates of Visit: November 18, 2025
Biography
Professor Gabrielle Brand is the Director of Graduate Research at Monash Nursing & Midwifery and is a passionate nurse, educator and qualitative researcher. She has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare education. Her research interests include narrative medicine, health humanities and creative and critical pedagogy. She is recognised as an education leader in the co-design of education with healthcare consumers and is the co-founder of the ‘Depth of Field’ © an arts-based teaching methodology used across Australia and New Zealand to teach current and future health professionals to move beyond “diagnosis’ to a more humanistic models of care. More recently her research has included planetary health education, integrating tolerance of uncertainty pedagogy into higher education and co-designing simulation-based education with healthcare consumers to address cognitive bias in healthcare. Gabrielle has published and presented her research in Australia and internationally, authored over 100 research outputs, including several book chapters.
Purpose of Visit
During her visit to CHES, Dr. Brand will be meeting with individual members of the CHES community to discuss their research ideas, offer advice, and explore areas of joint interest. Dr. Brand will also be presenting at the CHES Cutting Edge Speaker Series on November 18.