Dr Ruth McConigley

Dr Ruth McConigley is currently an investigator for the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) project  ‘The development of impact statements relating to patient and caregiver experience:  Exploring data collection methods’; the CanNET Great Southern Evaluation and Scoping Project; The NHMRC funded project ‘An educational program for health professionals to guide palliative care for people with Motor Neurone Disease’. She is the Lead Investigator on a project to examine the decision making process of people with cancer who live in rural areas and is an investigator on a number of the PaCCSC clinical trials of medications in palliative care.

For the last four years Dr McConigley has worked as a Project Manager on a number of projects relating to cancer, palliative care and aged care.  Ruth was the Project Manager for the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing funded project to develop the PMG Kit for Aged Care, which was subsequently distributed to all Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia.  She was the initial project manager on the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing funded project to develop Guidelines for a Palliative Approach to Community Aged Care.  She is also the co-author of An Outline of Palliative Medicine, which is available to General Practitioners Australia-wide via the Australian General Practice Network.

Dr McConigley had maternity leave in 2006 and 2008, and now works part time for the WA Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care.

Dr McConigley continues to provide education to undergraduate and post graduate nurses in the areas of nursing research and palliative care and is currently supervising a PhD student and a Masters student.  Dr McConigley has also recently been invited to sit on the WA Country Health Services Research Ethics Committee.

Dr McConigley has expertise in qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including interview and focus group techniques, qualitative data analysis and quantitative instrument development and testing.  She also has a sound working knowledge of the health care system in rural Western Australia.

Dr Ruth McConigley

(61 8) 9266 1766
r.mcconigley@curtin.edu.au