Associate Professor Myfanwy Maple
Associate Professor, Faculty of The Professions, School of Health
Qualifications
PhD, GCTE, GradCertAdolHlthWelf, BSW(Hons1)
Contact
| Email: | m.maple@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 an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Course Coordinator of the Social Work programs. Her professional background is in social work, where she worked primarily in health services, both in inpatient and community roles, prior to commencing in research and academia. Myfanwy led 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. Following this the Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) was developed, implemented and accredited for delivery commencing in 2011. Myfanwy 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. She currently teaches in the social work programs, with particular interests in the areas of suicide, mental health, trauma, grief and bereavement, and family.
Myfanwy is deputy lead of Theme A: ‘Self-care and mental health within regional communities’ in the Collaborative Research Network for Mental Health and Well-being in Rural Regions. This UNE lead CRN partners with the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales, along with Hunter New England Local Health District. Myfanwy’s research, primarily in the area of suicide, suicide bereavement and more broadly mental health, particularly in relation to rural and remote people and communities, is further being developed under this thematic area of the CRN.
Myfanwy is appointed by the NSW Minister for Mental Health as an Official Visitor under the Mental Health Act (2007), currently serving her third term. She is also serving her second term as an elected member of the Official Visitors Advisory Committee (2008-2010). 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.
Link to Dr Maple's publications list.
Dr Maple is the guest editor of Suicide Prevention Australia's February 2010 E-Newsletter (Vol. 8) accessed from the Suicide Prevention Australia website.
Listen to an interview (mp3) with Dr Maple about her research on suicide prevention and bereavement.
Areas of Teaching
Social Work
Social Work Honours
Research interests
Currently supervising Higher Degree Research students in the areas of:
Myfanwy is currently supervising PhD, MPhil and Bachelor (Hons) students in areas related to her own research, including suicide within families, young people and other groups within Australian society, missing people, grief and loss, and posttraumatic growth. 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.