**About the Editors**

#### **Richard Gray**

Professor Richard Gray has been working at La Trobe University since 2017, becoming Theme Lead (Healthy Peoples Families and Communities) in 2021. He provides research leadership across La Trobe University, with an overall responsibility over the research theme of "Healthy People Families and Communities", facilitating research and industry opportunities in consultation and collaboration with Deans, Associate Deans, and Research Center Directors. Prof. Gray supports the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the leadership and management of research at La Trobe University. He originally trained and worked as a Mental Health Nurse at the Maudsley Hospital in London before training in epidemiology and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropic Medicine. Subsequently, he has worked as a mental health services researcher focused on improving physical health outcomes for people experiencing mental ill-health, initially at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and later at the University of East Anglia and finally, La Trobe University. He is an Elsevier highly cited researcher, and his work has directly impacted the care and treatment of people experiencing mental ill-health in Australia and internationally. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Reports and is actively involved in the open science movement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.

#### **Sonia Udod**

Dr. Sonia Udod has an active program of research in organizational leadership, the role of the nurse leader and nurse work environments. Her research focuses on nurse leader development, important for the creation of high-quality healthcare workplaces, leading to quality nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes. She is passionate about enhancing nurse leader capacity in the workplace and teaching students to be effective leaders. She has teaching expertise in leadership and management and advanced qualitative methods. She is committed to knowledge dissemination through peer-reviewed publications.

She has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the following: the Professional Nursing Award of Excellence in Research from the Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba, Top Researcher in Socio-Health, New Investigator Establishment Grant Award, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, Gail Donner Fellowship in Nursing, and Rosenstadt Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.

She has held several positions in service as Chair of the Leadership, Management and Policy Interest Group, Canadian Association Schools of Nursing, and International Director for the Association of Leadership Science in Nursing, and she is an inaugural member of the Leadership Institute in the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba.
