Ms Jude Brown

Research Fellow, School of Social Science, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BSc Dip Ed (Macq), BA(Hons) (Macq), MappStats (Macq)
Contact
| Email: | jude.brown@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 142 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2139 (or +61 2 6773 2139 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Research interests
Research interests include the collection and analysis of time use data. Research projects include exploring the association between children’s physical activity patterns and obesity; socio-economic background, parental job quality, children’s activities and well being; patterns of mobile phone use and well-being and methodological issues associated with the analysis of time use data.
Refereed Journal Articles
Wajcman, J., Bittman, M. and Brown, J.E. (2008) ‘Families without Borders: Mobile Phones, Connectedness and Work-Home Divisions’ Sociology 42 (4): 635-652.
Brown, J.E., Bittman, M. & Nicholsen, J (2007) Time or money: the impact of parental employment on time that 4 to 5 year olds spend in language building activities, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 10, 149-165.
Saunders, P. and Brown, J. (2004) "Explaining Welfare to Work Transitions Among the Unemployed", The Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 7, 395-410.
Meiser, B., Collins, V., Warren, R., Gaff, C., James, D., St John, B., Young, M., Harrop, K. Brown, J. & Halliday, J. (2004) "Psychological impact of genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer"(HNPCC), Clinical Genetics , 66: 502-511.
Meiser, B., Butow, P. Friedlander, M., Barratt, A., Schnieden, V., Watson, M., Brown, J. & Tucker, K (2002). "Psychological impact of genetic testing in women from high-risk breast cancer families", European Journal of Cancer , 38:2025-2031.
Tattersall, M., Butow, P., Brown, J. & Thompson, J. (2002) "Improving doctors letters", The Medical Journal of Australia . 177:516-520.
Butow, P.N., Brown, J.E., Coates, A.S., Dunn, S.M. "Psychosocial predictors of outcome IV: Patients with early stage breast cancer", The Breast, 2001; 10: (Suppl 3), 182-9.
Brown, J., King, M., Butow, P., Dunn, S. & Coates, A. (2000), "Patterns over time in quality of life, coping and psychological adjustment in late stage melanoma patients: An application of multilevel models.", Quality of Life Research, 9, 75-85.
Brown, J., Brown, R., Miller, R., Dunn, S., King, M., Coates, A.S. & Butow, P.N. (2000). Coping with metastatic melanoma: The last year of life. Psycho-oncology, 9, 283-292.
Brown, J., Butow, P., Culjak, G., Coates, A. & Dunn, S. (2000). "Psychosocial predictors of outcome: time to relapse and survival in patients with early stage melanoma", British Journal of Cancer , 83, 1448-1453.
Hobbs, C., Tennant, C., Rosen, A., Newton, L., Lapsley, H., & Brown, J. (2000). "Deinstitutionalisation for long-term mental illness: a 2-year clinical evaluation", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 34, 476-483.
Refereed Monographs
Saunders, P. Brown, J . and Eardley, T. (2003), Analysis of Economic and Social Participation Among FaCS Customers, Policy Research Paper, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra, 2003.
Unpublished Reports
Eardley, T. Brown, J. , Rawsthorne, M., Norris, K. & Emrys, L. 'The Impact of Breaching on Income Support Recipients', Report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services. Forthcoming
Bradbury, B. & Brown, J. (2004) Veterens' Home Care Cost Effectiveness Project. Report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Veterans Affairs.
Saunders, P. & Brown, J. (2003) Exploring the Determinants and Impact of Participation Among FaCS Customers: Stage I . Report Prepared for the Department of Family and Community Services , Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales.
Conference and Workshop Presentations
Brown, J.E., Nicholson, J.M. & Broom, D.H. 'Do working parents grow couch potato kids? Impact of parental working hours on children’s time in screen use, physical activity and sleep and body mass index. International Association of Time Use Research, Sydney, December, 2008.
Brown, J.E. Television viewing patterns among young Australian children. International Association of Time Use Research, Sydney, December, 2008.
Brown, J. & Bittman, M. Social gradient, lifestyle and overweight/obesity in four year old children. 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference - Families Through Life. Melbourne, 2008.
Brown, J., Bittman, M and Hine, D. Time and Money: Parental employment, income and developmental outcomes in 4 and 5 year old children. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children Research Conference (LSAC), Melbourne, 2007.
Brown, J. Time or Money: The impact of parental employment on time that 4 to 5 year olds spend in language related activities. International Association of Time Use Research, Washington, U.S.A., 2007.
Brown, J. & Dunn P. Analysis of LSAC Time Use data: Opportunities and Challenges. The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research, Inc. (ACSPRI), Sydney, 2006.
Brown, J. & Dunn P. Too little time? A fresh look at right skewed data and how Poisson-gamma distributions may provide a viable solution . International Association of Time Use Research, Copenhagen , Denmark , 2006
Brown, J. & Bittman, M. Social gradients, lifestyle and obesity in Australian 4-year-old children. International Association of Time Use Research, Halifax , Canada , 2005.
Brown, J. & Bittman, M. Social disadvantage and children's activities: the transmission of social inequality? Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney , 2005.
Brown, J., Part-time Work and Other Predictors of Time to Exit from Newstart Allowance. Presentation to Department of Statistics, Macquarie University , August, 2004.
Bittman, M. and Brown, J. Part-time Work and Unpaid Work. Workshop on Part-time Work. RMIT, Melbourne , July, 2004.
Saunders, P. and Brown, J. 'Exploring the Determinants and Impact of Participation Among FaCS Customers – Preliminary Survey Results', Workshop on Social Policy Research Services , Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra, 24 November.
Brown, J., Tattersall, M., Butow, P. & Thompson, J. Promoting an improved format and content in letters from oncologists to referring doctors. National Breast Cancer Conference. Canberra , 2001.
Brown, J., Butow, P., Dunn, S., Coates, A., Remond, L. & Tennant, C. Evaluating a targeted psychosocial intervention programme for metastatic cancer patients. Clinical Oncological Society of Australia . Adelaide , 2000.
Brown, J., P Butow, G Culjak, A Coates & S Dunn. Psychosocial predictors of relapse and survival in early stage melanoma. Clinical Oncological Society of Australia . Melbourne , 1999.
Brown, J., King, M., Butow, P., Dunn, S. & Coates, A. Unravelling quality of life: Does coping style explain changes in quality of life? Clinical Oncological Society of Australia . Sydney , 1998.
