International Advisory Committee

Professor Wendy Moyle is a Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She is the current President of Aus-Hartford, a gerontological nursing association that aims to promote gerontological nursing.

Wendy’s research expertise is in dementia, depression and delirium. She has focused her research on finding evidence for best practices in the care of older people and, in particular, those with dementia, improving quality of life, and evidence for managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) using controlled trials to test psychosocial interventions. She has a keen interest in technologies and, within a social robotics laboratory, she develops and evaluates assistive technologies and social robots. She works with a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Australia and internationally.

She has a well-established publication and research grant record and has achieved several awards in recognition of her teaching, supervision of higher degree students (2022 VC Research Excellence Award (Research Supervision), and research, including two International Women’s Day Awards (2016), an International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (Sigma) for her research (2019) and she was recognised by Robohub as one of 30 women in robotics globally you need to know in 2019 and an international award for social robotics from Analytics Insight (2020). Her research features widely in the media with, to date, 15 television appearances, and over 142 radio and social media interviews.

Wendy is a highly successful PhD supervisor, having supervised 27 students to completion, with the majority of these students receiving reports of no revisions or minor revisions. Wendy is open to supervision opportunities, especially in the areas of Aging, Dementia; Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia; Loneliness; Carer Burden; Delirium; and evaluation and development of Technologies for older people.

• Diploma in Applied Science, Flinders University
• Bachelor of Nursing, Flinders University
• Masters Health Science, Queensland University of Technology
• Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology

• Registered Nurse, Dunedin Public Hospital