Rate My Professor Karen McNeil

Dr. Karen McNeil serves as a Professional Casual in the Department of Management at Macquarie University. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Newcastle, awarded in 2015 for her dissertation titled 'The Dynamic Interplay between Professional Identity, Threat and Context within Interprofessional Health Care Teams.' She also earned an MBA with Merit in 2004 and a Bachelor of Commerce in Psychology and Industrial Relations in 1986, both from the University of Newcastle. Prior to entering the university sector in 2005, McNeil worked as a Human Resources Manager in the manufacturing and mining sectors. She has served as Senior Research Officer and Casual Academic at the University of Newcastle's Faculty of Business and Law, teaching primarily in the field of Human Resources Management. Since commencing in higher education, she has collaborated with researchers from business, nursing, and medicine, building strong interdisciplinary research and project management skills.

McNeil's current research at Macquarie University investigates mental health and well-being in the mining sector, working with teams from the Departments of Management and Marketing. Her research interests include organisational behaviour, resilience, teams and teamwork, gender diversity, healthcare management, health services research, and social identity theory. She excels in research project management and coordination, qualitative research design, ethics, data collection and analysis, grant application preparation, and co-authoring and editing reports and publications across disciplines. Key publications include 'Two sides of the same coin: Appraising job-related attributes as resilience enhancing or undermining' (Human Resource Management Journal, 2024), 'Workplace stress and resilience in the Australian nursing workforce: A comprehensive integrative review' (International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2020), 'Mobile memory clinic: implementing a nurse practitioner-led, collaborative dementia model of care within general practice' (Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2021), 'Driving assessments for older adult patients: Interviews with general practitioners to gauge current strategies and future directions' (Australian Journal of General Practice, 2022), and 'A study of macro-, meso- and micro-barriers and enablers affecting extended scopes of practice: the case of rural nurse practitioners in Australia' (BMC Nursing, 2019). She coordinates projects such as Resilience and Mental Health in Mining Pilot (2023-2025), Communication and Cognitive Retention (2022-2024), and Alcohol in Mining (2022-2024), contributing to 31 research outputs overall. McNeil is a Certified Professional (CAHRI) with the Australian Human Resource Institute.