Role within the department
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Anu is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Occupational and Aviation Medicine Unit at the University of Otago. She assists with teaching research methods (AVME 785/885) and supervises postgraduate research students. With a professional nursing background, she holds a PhD in Health Sciences from this unit, where she focused on non-technical skills in high-acuity maternity aeromedical transport.
Research interests
Anu's research covers patient safety, non-technical skills, human error, quality of care, teamwork, occupational health and wellbeing, organisational culture, and aeromedical transfers. She also collaborates on studies in Sri Lanka exploring medication errors, fatigue, and nurses’ quality of life. She serves as a reviewer for the International Journal for Quality in Health Care (Oxford University Press), a leading Q1-ranked journal in safety and quality.
Contact details
Tel +64 27 645 8379
Email anu.perera@otago.ac.nz
Publications
Le Roux, C., Perera, A., & Myers, J. A. (2025). The professional quality of life of flight nurses: A cross-sectional study. Contemporary Nurse, 61(1), 10-20. doi: 10.1080/10376178.2024.2424786 Journal - Research Article
Perera, A., Myers, J., & Griffiths, R. (2022). Non-technical skills in Obstetric Aeromedical Transfers (NOAT): A non-technical skills framework for multidisciplinary teams transferring pregnant women by air. Proceedings of the Aeromedical Society of Australasia (ASA) and Flight Nurses Australia (FNA) Conference. Retrieved from https://www.aeromedconference.com/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Perera, P. A. D., Myers, J. A., & Griffiths, R. F. (2022). Non-technical skills: Building safer and healthier workplaces. Sri Lankan Journal of Nursing, 1(2), 3-9. doi: 10.4038/sljn.v1i2.32 Journal - Research Other
Pathirage, A. D. P. (2022). Non-technical skills of health professionals and teams in the high-acuity maternity aeromedical transport setting (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/14129 Awarded Doctoral Degree
Perera, A., Griffiths, R., & Myers, J. A. (2022). Integrative review of non-technical skills frameworks to apply for air medical transfer of pregnant women. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 51, 257-277. doi: 10.1016/j.jogn.2022.01.006 Journal - Research Other