Martha MacLeod, PhD, RN, comes from a professional and practice background in nursing management and continuing education. She has been at UNBC since 1994, and is professor in both the School of Nursing and the School of Health Sciences. She is currently the Chair of the School of Nursing and Coordinator of Nursing Graduate Studies and Research. Martha teaches in the areas of leadership, qualitative research, knowledge development and moving knowledge into practice.
Martha leads the Rural and Northern Practice Research Team, and her research, broadly speaking, takes a qualitative approach to examining health services and health human resources. Specifically, she studies the nature of everyday experience and practice, and how professional practice may be developed or hindered within health care organizations, particularly those in rural, remote and northern settings. She has published and presented widely on rural and northern nursing issues, nursing practice, education, knowledge translation, and network development. Currently, Martha is undertaking partnered research with BC's Northern Health Authority in primary health care, and she is active in national and regional research and knowledge translation networks.
Martha reviews for several journals, including the Journal of Clinical Nursing, the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, and Rural and Remote Health e-journal. Her service contributions include membership on the UNBC Canada Research Chair Review Committee, chairing the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Knowledge to Action Review Committee and membership on the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Scientist Review Committee. She also serves on the InspireNet Leadership Team.