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Pratima Durga

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Lecturer in Business

Biography

Pratima completed her MBA at Central Queensland University (CQU) in 2009 and is currently completing her PhD at the same university. Her research thesis is entitled: 'Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions.' Pratima is also part of a team that won an interdisciplinary research grant from CQU. The project title is 'Remote Health Access: Protecting vulnerable remote and regional populations with eHealth solutions.'

Pratima has spent 23 years of her professional life working in the public service and has held several management roles in the private sector before joining higher education.

She oversees the undergraduate programs in Arts and Business, as well as lecturing in Business studies.

Pratima is a member of the Holistic Human Health and Interculturality, Interfaith and Mission research clusters.

Qualifications

PhD (candidate) (Central Queensland University), Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions – 2024

Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management) (Central Queensland University) – 2009

Cert IV TAE (Ballistic Training Solutions) – 2016

  • Research Publications

    Book Chapters

    • 2023
      • Durga, P. (2023). Overcoming religious distance: Epiphanies in cross-cultural settings In Johannes M. Luetz, Denise A. Austin & Adis Duderija, Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices (pp. 283-298). Springer Nature, Singapore. | External link
    • 2022
      • Muurlink, O., Durga, P., Awan, N. & Taylor Robinson, A.W.(2022). Success and its consequences: Bangladesh’s health report card at 50 In H. Khondker, O. Muurlink, & A. Bin Ali, The Emergence of Bangladesh (pp. Chapter 18 (pp339-354)). Palgrave Macmillan. | External link

    Journal Articles

    • 2022
      • Durga, P., Caffery, L. A., Muurlink, O. T., & Taylor‐Robinson, A. W.(2022). Under the regulatory radar: unregulated rural health in Bangladesh and Australia. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2022; 00:1–9.. | External link

  • Scholarship

    Internal and External Grants

    • 2023
      • AC Conference Funding, $2000, AC
    • 2018
      • Remote Health Access, $15000, Central Queensland University

    Presentations

    • 2023
      • Scope of practice: Contrasting developments in rural and remote healthcare in Bangladesh and Australia (2023), World Rural Health Conference 2023, Sydney, Australia, 29 Oct 2023
    • 2020
      • Innovation from necessity: two contrasting cases of remote area access (2020), 17th World Rural Health Conference, Online, 16 Apr 2020
    • 2018
      • Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions (2018), CQU, Rockhampton, Australia, 02 Jul 2018
      • Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions (2018), Business and Law Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 01 Jun 2018

    Professional Memberships


    National Rural Health Alliance (since 2019)


  • Teaching

    BUS225 Business Ethics
    MKT351 International Marketing
    MKT301 Market Research
    MKT251 Marketing Communication
    MKT216 Strategic Marketing for Non-Profit Organisations
    MKT202 Consumer Behaviour
    MKT201 Sales Management
    MKT101 Foundations of Marketing
    MAN351 International Management
    MAN311 Strategic Management

  • Supervision