Research profiles
Researcher Profiles
Professor Victor Minichiello, is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of The Professions at the University of New England. He is a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Auditor for Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA).
Professor Minichiello is a gerontologist, health sociologist, and a sexual health and public health researcher who has published over 120 research articles in international medical, health and social sciences journals and written/edited ten books on ageing, HIV/AIDS and research methods. He has attracted over $15 million dollars of external research and program funding. His academic interests include: public health issues, health promotion, health policy, sexual health, aged care, ageism and health seeking behaviour.
Professor Minichiello was the Associate Editor of Educational Gerontology: An International Journal and the former Editor of Venereology: The Interdisciplinary, International Journal of Sexual Health (1994-98), and is on the editorial board of the Australasian Journal on Ageing and BioMed Central Public Health.
Research interests
- Health systems
- Workforce training and retention
- Primary Health Care
- Public Health
- Rural Health
- General Practice
- Mixed methodologies
Research projects
University of New England Research Linkages and Collaborative Grants Scheme 2008. Strengthening rural Thai health services to meet Millennium Development Goals: Developing Thai rural health professionals health management capacity through Collaborative Action Research (CAR).
Ministry of Public Health & National Security Office, Thailand. 2006. To Deliver Curricula for Primary Care Health Professionals in Health Management and Nursing in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand. Research Team of the School of Health, University of New England, Australia and Naresuan University, Thailand.
Rural Health Support and Education 2006 - Development of a Multidisciplinary Human Factors Training Module.
General Practice Education and Training - Submission for GP regional consortium in NW NSW, Developmental status obtained for 2002. New England Area Training Services funded in 2003.
Australian College Remote and Rural medicine - to conduct Acute Life Support Obstetrics Course.
Research interests
- Impact of delivery systems in health services
- Medical Devises Evaluation
- Paediatrics & Nursing
- Patient journey programs
- Oncology
Professor Campbell joined UNE as the Head of School of Health in January 2009. Prior to his UNE appointment he was based in the UK. He is currently involved in setting up a number of major research initiatives including the health component of the Spatial CRC project.
Professor Campbell undertook his undergraduate nursing degree a Manchester University (UK), at one of the pioneering nursing departments of its time. He undertook postgraduate training in children’s nursing before working in the area of paediatric oncology. He moved to the new Regional Unit in Newcastle UK, where he came to national prominence with his work on mouth care for children with cancer, the subject of his PhD. He took up his first academic appointment in 1990, as Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Newcastle Polytechnic, followed by a series of joint appointments including one at Southampton University UK. He was made founding Chair of Nursing Practice at Northumbria University in 2000, heading the Nursing Practice Research Centre at Sunderland Royal Hospital. He led a number of programmes of research while in that role on improvement of health care delivery and which were commended nationally including the Patient Journey (Voice) initiative that redesigned 18 clinical services. While in Sunderland he was Head of Nursing R&D, R&D Director as well as the NHS R&D Director for Technologies for Health, a Medical Device Evaluation company. He holds a number of other appointments including Editor-in-Chief of two journals.
Associate Professor Rafat Hussain
Research interests
- Domestic Violence
- Population health & health systems
- Women’s Health
- STIs & RTIs
- Disabilities
- Health & Behaviour
Research projects
Tait, K., Hussain, R. & Young L. 2009. ‘Vulnerability and rurality: Parental perceptions of quality of life for familiesand children with intellectual disabilities’. APEX Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disabilities.
Hussain, R, Briggs DS, & Wark S. 2009-10. ‘The ageing of people with disability in rural areas’.
Hussain, R, Guppy, M., & Roberstson, S. 2008-09 ‘Health and well-being of adolescents’.
Hussain R & Khan A. 2009. ‘Exploratory collaborative project on violence against women in Fiji’.
Associate investigator on Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health (funded by DOHA and co-located at Univ. Newcastle & Univ. of Queensland).
Research interests
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Trauma and Loss
- Aboriginal Health and Family Violence
- Building Resilience in Rural Australia
- Vicarious Traumatisation of Practitioners
- Counselling and Social Work in Rural and Remote Settings
- Increasing workforce capacity in Rural and Remote Areas
Research projects
- Principle investigator, with Dr Myfanwy Maple, on a DOHA grant entitled “Meeting the needs of rural and remote Australians through the ongoing development of the interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice at UNE”.
- Evaluating a Creative Arts Program designed to enhance the therapy process with child for whom there is an allegation of childhood sexual assault by an adult.
- Maintaining Ethical Boundaries: An exploration of regional, rural and remote counsellor practice.
Associate Professor Linda Turner
Research interests
- Responses to diversity in professional practice
- School based social work field education
- Rural contexts of social work practice
- Creative empowerment processes
- Pioneers in social work in Northern NSW
- Professional responses to addiction issues
- Social work education provision in partnership with Indigenous communities
Research projects
Rural and remote social work intern supervision.
Social work student engagement in social justice initiatives during practicum.
Use of fictional literature to develop empathy and awareness in tertiary teaching.
Promoting linguistic and cultural respect in health care.
Creativity and innovation in social work practice.
Empowerment in human service agencies.
Associate Professor Michelle Guppy
Research interests
- Acute Respiratory Infections
- Diabetes
- Evidence-based health care
- Adolescent health issues
- Iron deficiency.
Research projects
- Cochrane Review with Acute Respiratory Infections Group.
- Evaluation of a Rural Primary Care Diabetes Program.
- Systematic Review of Australian Diabetes Programs.
- Prevalence study of iron deficiency in adolescents.
- Prevalence study of health and well-being issues in adolescents.
Research interests
- Rich Media technologies
- E-portfolio tools for assessment
- Curriculum design and assessment
- HDR pedagogy
- Managing Educational change
Research projects
Rich media technologies: Project leader on an ALTC grant for the sector-wide sustainability, scalability, viability and pedagogy for such virtual learning tools (such as video communications, mobile devices and videoconferencing).
e-Portfolios in medical education – investigation of forms, products and possibilities for using e-portfolio tools for assessment across the Bachelor of Medicine.
Curriculum design and assessment - mapping and aligning curriculum and assessment to improve student learning outcomes.
HDR pedagogy – practice and theorising about effective pedagogy and strategies for successful completion of HDR students.
Research interests
- Health system strengthening particularly in rural areas
- Professional development of health managers and health professionals
- Models and networks of care delivery in rural communities
Research projects
- Strengthening rural Thai health services to meet Millennium Development Goals: Developing Thai rural health professionals’ health management capacity through collaborative Action Research (CAR). Aus UNE IRCL grant with matching funding from Naresuan University Thailand.
- Identifying common interests and challenges in education, training and research: Collaborative action research: Indonesia.
- The ageing of people with disability in rural areas. Faculty grant with R. Hussain, S. Wark.
- Building a healthy Thailand – developing health management and primary care nursing curriculum for rural primary health care. Funded by Thai National Health Security Office.
- The lived experience of health service managers. PhD research.
- Understanding the role of the Thai Community Hospital Director (CHD) in implementing the rural health care reform.
Research interests
- Millennium Development Goals research
- Public health in developing countries and Primary Health Care
- Social mobility, social movements, Migration and health
- Multiple drug resistant TB
- Intercultural education
- Occupational health and safety
- Tertiary education policy
Research projects
- Accessing the unreached in Thailand: Mapping migrant children with disabilities who are from Burma.
- Mapping migrant children with disabilities in Cambodia, Bangladesh and Nepal.
- Statelessness, rurality and poverty increase the risk of disability and educational marginalization. This research will identify and screen the children with disabilities in marginalized populations in three countries of the Asia Pacific rim.
Associate Professor Jeanne Madison
Research interests
- Leadership/management diversity and enquiry in leadership
- Management and governance
- Nurse practitioners
- Burnout and workplace behaviours
- Organisational citizenship behaviours
Research interests
- Gender and health
- Culture and health
- Pregnancy, birth and early maternal child health
- Teaching and learning, Inter-professional education/practice
- Community health/development
Has also supervised a number of phenomenological studies, case study methods and mixed method studies. Has significant experience in teaching research methods and issues in research courses at higher degree level.
Research interests
- Suicide bereavement related research
- Family experience of the social-environmental
- Family experience of trauma and grief
- Family experience of service provision
- Rural student education, in particular for social work and through the use of online technologies
- Qualitative methods, in particular narrative inquiry
Research projects
Principle investigator, with Dr Sally Hunter, on a DOHA grant entitled “Meeting the needs of rural and remote Australians through the ongoing development of the interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice at UNE”.
Maintaining ethical boundaries: An exploration of regional, remote and rural counsellor practice.
Grief in young people : Understanding the experience of losing a sibling or friend to suicide during adolescence and young adulthood.
Mapping the social and geographical networks / strategies utilised by rural and remote families during emerging mental health problems of young people.
Research interests
- Organisational culture of healthcare workplaces
- Recruitment and retention of rural health workforce
- The use of simulation in health professionals’ clinical education
- Nursing in rural contexts
- Expanded scope of practice for General Practice Nurses (in relation to childhood obesity in particular)
- The role of e-learning in nursing education
- Strategies that build research and publication expertise in rural clinicians
- Challenges Confronting Health Care Professionals in Rural Acute Care Settings.
- A scoping study to explore the capacity of General Practice Nurses to improve the prevention and management of childhood obesity.
Research projects
- Challenges Confronting Health Care Professionals in Rural Acute Care Settings.
- A scoping study to explore the capacity of General Practice Nurses to improve the prevention and management of childhood obesity.
Research interests
- Palliative care
- Aged care
- Nursing in rural contexts
- Community based nursing
- Primary Health Care
- Clinical supervision
- Challenges faced by rural health professionals including rural acute care services
- Expanded scope of practice for General Practice Nurses (in relation to childhood obesity in particular)
Research projects
- Challenges Confronting Health Care Professionals in Rural Acute Care Settings.
- A scoping study to explore the capacity of General Practice Nurses to improve the prevention and management of childhood obesity.
- Establishment of a Significant UNE Research program on Networks of Rural Professionals.
- An Exploration of Factors that Contribute to Social Isolation Among the Residents of Rural Aged Care.
Research interests
- Preparing preceptors for their role as clinical teachers
- Transfer anxiety in patients, family and staff when patients are transferred from ICU
- The influence of clinical placement on student nurses seeking employment
- Critical Care Nursing
- Multiple births: twins
Research projects
- Exploring the clinical facilitation model for undergraduate nursing clinical placements.
- Clinical placements: models, experience and needs.
- Critical care: experiences – staff, patients and families.
- Rural health: experiences, challenges and needs; recruitment and retention.
- Postgraduates: experiences, challenges and needs.
Research interests
- New graduate nurses
- Rural Nursing Practice
- Recruitment and retention issues in Nursing
- Undergraduate clinical nursing education
Research projects
Collaborative study, funded by UNE Internal Research Grant, to identify recruitment and retention barriers for graduate nurses in Rural Northern NSW.
Research interests
- Mental Health Education
- Community Development
- Mental Health Research including mental health nursing practice.
- Young people’s mental health issues related to emergent mental illness.
- Exploring help seeking behaviours during emergent mental illness phases.
Research projects
Stewart, C & Wilson, R.L. 2009. Virtual clinical judgment development in an undergraduate nursing course utilizing Sakai wiki tools and purpose built tools.
Wilson, R.L., Maple, M. & Bartik, W. 2009. Mapping the social and geographical networks/strategies utilised by rural and remote families during emerging mental health problems of young people.
Parmenter, G., Paliadelis, P. Wilson, R.L. 2008-2009. A scoping study to explore the capacity of general practice nurses to improve the prevention and management of childhood obesity.
Research
Broad field interest Research Armidale Health and Wellbeing project with Professor Alison Sheridan.
Research Interests
- Social sciences
- Public policy and management
- Health care
- Public health.
Associate Professor Godfrey Isouard
Godfrey Isouard is Assoc Professor in Health Services Management at the University of New England. He has qualifications in medical science (clinical biochemistry and microbiology), public health and health services management. Prior to moving into academia he had a distinguished career within the health services, having held senior clinical and executive positions. He also has extensive senior academic leadership experience at the level of Head of School, Associate Dean, Provost and Chair of Faculty Board.
Assoc Professor Isouard is recognised as a leading scholar in the discipline of health management. He holds fellowships from the Australian College of Health Service Executives (ACHSE), and the Australian College of Biomedical Scientists (ACBS). He is the Immediate Past President of the Society of Health Administration Programs in Education after serving four years as National President. He is also a Director of the ACHSE, State Councillor and Vice-President of the ACHSE (NSW), Director of the Western Sydney Academy of Sport, and a NSW Vice-Chancellor’s Committee Representative Specialist for Health Programs, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Facta Universitatis and the Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management.
Assoc Professor Isouard’s health management research and consultancy interests focus on health care quality and safety, leadership and organisational performance, evidence based service improvement, and health sciences education and research. He is currently undertaking research involving the quality improvement of diagnostic imaging services, and also investigating new strategic parameters for advancing health leadership through international collaboration.
Shane Merritt
Research Interests
- Indigenous Mental Health
- Grief and Loss
- Resilience.
Research Projects
- Mentoring of Indigenous Students
- Resiliency and Coping in Indigenous Australians
- Post Graduate Mental Health Students - Motivations Challenges, and Insights.
Shane Merritt is a Kamilaroi man who is a registered psychologist. Shane has worked with disadvantaged children, has researched various aspects of parenting and childrens’ perceptions of their own abilities. He has also worked with people with disabilities and/or mental health issues, on various Government tribunals. He has been a member of the National Reference Group, the Conference Steering Committee and the Stream III Funding Selection Panel for AusEinet (The Australian Early Intervention Network for Young People with Mental Health Issues). Shane is currently undertaking his PhD within the discipline of psychology.