Associate Professor Myfanwy Maple
Associate Professor, Faculty of The Professions, School of Health
Qualifications
PhD, GradCertAdolHlthWelf, BSW(Hons1)
Contact
| Email: | mmaple@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Pat O'Shane Buidling (C13) 310 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3661 (or +61 2 6773 3661 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3666 |
Myfanwy is a senior lecturer in the School of Health and Course Coordinator of the Social Work program. She lectures in the social work and counselling programs and has particular interests in the areas of suicide, mental health, trauma, grief and bereavement, and family. Myfanwy lead the development of the Bachelor of Social Work at UNE, which in May 2009 was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Innovation. She is keenly interested in curriculum development and blended learning models for on campus and distance students, with the development of online communities as a focus.
Myfanwy is an active researcher primarily in suicided related research and more broadly mental health, particularly in relation to rural and remote people and communities.
In 2007, Myfanwy was awarded the Emerging Researcher Award from Suicide Prevention Australia on World Suicide Prevention Day for her work toward understanding the experience of family members affected by suicide death. She has published in national and international journals in the area of suicide bereavement.
Myfanwy is appointed by the NSW Minister for Health as an Official Visitor under the Mental Health Act (2007) and is currently serving her second term as an elected member of the Official Visitors Advisory Committee (2008-2010).
Dr Maple is the guest editor of February 2010 E-Newsletter (Vol. 8) accessed from the 'Continuing improvement in suicide prevention' website.
Myfanwy’s professional background is in social work, where she has worked primarily in health services, both in inpatient and community roles, prior to commencing in research and academia.
Listen to an interview (mp3) with Dr Maple about her research on suicide prevention and bereavement.
Link to Dr Maple's publication list.
Areas of Teaching
Social Work
Social Work Honours
Research interests
Currently supervising Higher Degree Research students in the areas of:
Myfanwy is currently supervising eleven PhD students in areas related to her own research, including suicide within families, missing people, posttraumatic growth, experiences in counselling, supervision of counsellors and social workers, and the use of ICT in supervision. She specialises in supervising research using narrative inquiry methodology.
Research interests:
- Traumatic loss and grief
- Suicide (prevention, intervention and postvention)
- Mental health and illness
- Family and community contexts
- Indigenous issues
- Rural student education, in particular for social work
- Qualitative methods, in particular narrative inquiry.