Keynote & Conference Presentations (selected)

Invited keynote: ‘Mental health futures’ Central Coast Local Health District Mental Health Symposium, Gosford Hospital, Gosford, NSW, Australia. March 19, 2025.

Invited keynote: ‘The future of rural mental health nursing’ Tamworth Mental Health Nursing Symposium, Tamworth, NSW, Australia. December 2, 2024.

Wilson Lab: The Incredibles – Wilson, R.L., 2024. President presentations; Together with my team we had 20+ abstracts accepted at the International Conference of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses. Melbourne, September 2023 https://www.acmhn2023.com/_files/ugd/b1f296_82b9703b8d304928939c6528eed4dac3.pdf

Invited keynote: Culturally aligned methods and models for priority populations Royal College of Nursing International research conference, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 11-13 September 2024. https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/inrc?utm_campaign=2763115_INRC%20FA%20Email%20%20PDL-MASK-105353-0506%20%2019.6.24&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&dm_i=4JL6,1N817,6KNZ85,7PZVM,1#Keynote-speakers

Invited keynote: Internationalisation in mental health nursing Collab24: Mental health nursing Melbourne, Victoria Australia. 8-9 August 2024. https://thecollab.org.au/keynotes-2024 

Invited Plenary Speaker: A call to action: Registered nurse regulatory endorsement to promote public safety for dual diagnosis clients. Drug and Alcohol Nurses Association (DANA) https://www.danaonline.org/public/188/files/Events/DANA%20Adelaide%20Program%20FNL%205%20July%20(1).pdf7-9 August 2024 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Invited plenary speaker: Methods and models designed to support trauma informed mental health care for priority populations. ENTER Mental Health Symposium Warsaw, Poland 27-28th June 2024. https://konferencje.aps.edu.pl/enter/img/ProgramEN

Invited keynote: Renewal, Refresh, Rebuild Darwin. Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) Northern Territory Winter Symposium, NT Australia, 18-19 July 2024. https://acmhn.org/common/Uploaded%20files/PDFs/Event%20PDFs/North%20Australia%20Winter%20Symposium%20(6).pdf 

Invited keynote: Yarning knowledge: Strengthening clinical practice, health Aboriginal mental health and wellbeing forum, NSW Health. Fullerton Hotel, Sydney, Australia May 2024. 

Higgins, O., Chalup, S. K., Short, B. L., & Wilson, R. L. (2021). Interpretations of Innovation: The intersection of technological advancement and psychosis University of Newcastle School of Nursing and Midwifery Research Symposium, Newcastle, Australia

Higgins, O., Chalup, S. K., Short, B. L., & Wilson, R. L. (2021). Disruptions of The Familiar: Psychosis Echoes Technological Advancement TheMHS 2021 Hope into Action, Melbourne. 

Higgins, O., Chalup, S. K., Short, B. L., & Wilson, R. L. (2022a). Interpretations of Innovation: The intersection of technological advancement and psychosis ACMHN's 46th International Mental Health Nursing Conference, Mental Health Nursing, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/inm.13050

Higgins, O., Chalup, S. K., Short, B. L., & Wilson, R. L. (2022b). Interpretations of Innovation: The intersection of technological advancement and psychosis International Association for Youth Mental Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Higgins, O., Chalup, S. K., Short, B. L., & Wilson, R. L. (2022c). Interpretations of Innovation: The intersection of technological advancement and psychosis Research & Innovation Symposium: Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford 

Wilson, R. L., & Higgins, O. (2023a). Portable digital sensory rooms: Unleashing technological precision to address emotional dysregulation, de-escalation, distress and discomfort ACMHN's 47th International Mental Health Nursing Conference, Mental Health Nursing, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/inm.13209

 Wilson, R. L., & Higgins, O. (2023). Training artificial intelligence through collaborative engagement with mental health nurses Horatio: European Psychiatric Nurses Congress, Malta 

Invited Keynote: Digital Health: Who misses out and why? First International Symposium on Digital Inequality and Social Change (ISDISC) University of Canberra. 28 & 29 March 2022 https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/SciTech/research/rc-disc/isdisc

Wilson, R.L., Cronin, C. (2021) Explore, Build and Connect: A person-centred learning framework for nursing and mental health topics within the flipped classroom. Book of abstracts p38, session 3.2.1: Learning, teaching and assessment approaches and technologies. RCN Education Forum National Conference & Exhibition 20 & 21st April. Stepping up: education the nursing workforce in challenging times 

Cronin, C., Bidwell, G., J Carey, J., Donevant, S., Hughes, K., Kaunonen, M., Marcussen, J., & Wilson, R.L.(2022) Symposium: International nursing digital menopause taskforce: a programme for developing a digital solution to alleviate the discomfort of menopause. Co Led: Professor Camille Cronin & Professor Rhonda Wilson. 

o Paper 1 Menopause in the nursing workplace: an international collaborative project.

o Paper 2 Menopause in the nursing workplace: an international collaborative project using the Framework method to analyse data across different countries

o Paper 3 Menopause in the workplace – an organisation-based case study.

o Paper 4 Digital health proof of concept and prototype: Tailored response to supporting women in nursing during menopause. 

Donevant, S., Cronin C, Bidwell, G., J Carey, J., Hughes, K., Kaunonen, M., Marcussen, J., & Wilson R.L. (2022) Menopause in the nursing workplace: preliminary findings of an international qualitative study. Sigma's 33rdInternational Nursing Research Congress -- 21-25 July, Edinburgh.

Cronin, C., Bidwell, G., Carey, J., Donevant, S., Hughes, K., Kaunonen., Marcussen, J., Wilson R.L. (2021) Menopause in the nursing workplace: an international collaborative project. Preliminary Findings. International Nursing Research Conference, 7-9 September 2021, Bristol, UK (presentation) 

Cronin, C., Hungerford, C., & Wilson, R.L. (2021) Digital therapeutics to support women in menopause: A narrative review. International Nursing Research Conference, 7-9 September 2021, Bristol, UK (presentation)

Invited presentation: Digital Health for Mental Health Nurses. Nursing in mental health: the changing role of nurses in mental health and psychiatry in Europe. ENTER Mental Health Network in collaboration with Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire, Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences Paris, France. 14 & 15 May, 2020

Invited presentation:  The safe and precise use of digital therapeutics for people with mental health conditions. 1st International Scientific and Training Conference on Methods of Psychological Help “Mental health promotion - from theory to practice”. The Department of Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology, The Maria Grzegorzewska University Warsaw, Poland, November 7-8, 2019.

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) implications and the safe use of digital therapies for people with depression and/or anxiety. 20th ENTER Mental Health Conference, Bodø, Norway. 13 June 2019  

The safe administration of digital therapeutics. CHARM conference, Canberra, Australia. July 2019 

Wilson, R.L., Marcussen,J., Hounsgaard, L., Thoude, F. Integrated care for double bereavement associated with parental cancer and death in divorced families: Interventions targeting child and young adult mental health and well-being. International Conference of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, Sydney, Australia, October 2019

Wilson, R.L, Marcussen, J., Hounsgaard, L., Thoude, F. Parental cancer and death in divorced families – Double bereavement and interventions targeted the related child´s and young adult´s mental health. Royal College of Nursing Research Conference, Sheffield, UK. September 2019 

Jensen, A.M., Hounsgaard, L., Pedersen, B.D., Olsen, R.B., Wilson, R.L. Acute hospital care experiences of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. 29th Alzheimer Europe Conference: Making dementia a European priority The Hague, Netherlands. 23-25 October 2019.

Søgaard Nielsen, A. & Wilson, R.L. (2018). Human Computer Interaction implications for E Mental Health Interventions among people with depression and/or anxiety. 44th International Mental Health Nurses Conference, Cairns Australia. October 2018.

Wilson, R.L. (2018). Bring your own (BYO) wearable or smartphone technology to mental health care. 44th International Mental Health Nurses Conference, Cairns Australia. October 2018.

 Wilson, R.L. (2017): (invited) E Mental Health in Denmark.CPS‐konference 2017 Psykiatrisk Sygepleje – Ulighed, Tvang, Relation & Teknologi (CPS Conference 2017 Psychiatric Nursing: Inequality, Compulsion, Relationships & Technology). Hindsgavl Slot (Castle), Laden, Tranesalen, Hindsgavl Alle 7, 5500 Middelfart, Denmark, 14 November, 2017 

Wilson, R.L. (2017) E Mental Health Research Seminar Ecological approaches to evidence-based e-mental health practice. E Mental Health Research Unit, Institute Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark and the TelePsychiatric Centre, Region of Southern Denmark. The Auditorium, Faculty of Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 2 March 2017