Dr. Michael Barbagallo
Senior Lecturer, Healthcare
Campus
Biography
Dr Michael Barbagallo’s research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, reflective practice, community evaluation, and the biosciences.
Dr Barbagallo has extensive research experience in data collection and analysis techniques, and a growing research portfolio with publications in peer reviewed journals and competitive grants.
Michael has worked at the School of Health at Federation University Australia’s Gippsland campus since 2016. Michael’s main teaching roles include Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology and Research Methods courses, as well as teaching into the Masters program. Michael has also supervised Honours projects within the school and he is experienced at supervising higher degree by research students.
Michael works as a member of the University’s Collaborative Evaluation Unit, which collaborates extensively with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Latrobe Health Assembly.
Fields of research
- Nursing not elsewhere classified
- Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
- Health and community services
- Publications
Exploring student nurses' perspectives of research and evidence-based practice: a pre- and postintervention study using authentic assessment
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.teln.2025.12.027