Richard Lakeman
Richard Lakeman, BN, RCpN (35), based in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia, works as a psychiatric nurse in a Mobile Intensive Team. He has designed web sites since 1996 and developed software packages to assist with drug calculations and creating and administering on-line tests and research instruments.

A Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses (ANZCMHN), Richard has a wide range of research and clinical interests. His honours thesis explored 'coping with voices' and he has published articles on this topic and others in a number of nursing journals, presenting at conferences and contributing to a number of textbooks.

Richard's practice experience includes roles as group facilitator and staff nurse in various psychiatric care facilities including day hospital, acute, intensive care and continuing care units. He has an interest in how nurses can use the Internet to facilitate global communication and share resources, on which subject he recently presented at the annual Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR) conference in Oxford, UK. An online version of this presentation can be accessed here. Richard is a director of GroupInterVisual Ltd., the company sponsoring this research through the provision of facilities for online communication amongst participants (for further details of this sponsorship, see Appendix I).

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