Dr Tinashe M. Dune
CRN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of The Professions
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (Sexual Health)Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Psychology
Contact
| Email: | tdune@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Botany (S2) 259 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3848 (or +61 2 6773 3848 overseas) |
Professional summary
Tinashe’s research, teaching and publications focus on sexual marginalization and health inequities. Namely she explores the phenomenological experiences of sexual health, GLBTIQ people, ageing populations, women’s health, cross-cultural understandings of sexuality, sex work and physical disability. Her academic pursuits and interests are supported by several years of hands-on work with the Attendant Services programme at Carleton University, focused on client-directed and dignified provision of personal care for students with moderate to severe disabilities. She has also dedicated herself to the Sex Worker Outreach Program (SWOP) in Sydney and made trips to Western Australia and Queensland to provide support to sex workers from various backgrounds. Tinashe has also interned at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr Thomas Shakespeare and Alana Officer (WHO - Disability and Rehabilitation Unit), in conjunction with the WHO - Reproductive Health Research Unit. She also functions as an Honorary Research Associate for the Australian ICF Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program (AIDARRP) under the supervision of Dean Gywnnyth Llewellyn and Ms Ros Madden at the University of Sydney.
Tinashe is presently working as a postdoctoral research fellow for the Collaborative Research Network Mental Health and Well-being (funded by the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations) with a focus on sexual identity, health and well-being under the supervision of Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor and Dean Professor Victor Minichiello (UNE), Associate Professor Gail Hawkes (UNE), Professor John Scott (UNE), Professor Gary Dowsett (La Trobe University) and Professor Marian Pitts (La Trobe University). Her major current activities with academic and industry colleagues include the following projects:
- UNE Post Doctoral/Early Career Researcher Award: Culturally Specific Understandings of Sexual Wellbeing and Ageing amongst older Indigenous Women (Grant held by Dr Tinashe Dune - collaborating with UNE's Oorala Aboriginal Centre and Family Planning Queensland)
- ARC Discovery Grant: Sexual Well-being and Ageing: A Study of Older Australian Women (Grant held by Professor Marian Pitts, Professor Victor Minichiello and Associate Professor Gail Hawkes)
- Exploring Understandings of Sexuality and Ageing among Older Zimbabwean Women in Australia: A Pilot Study (funding held by Dr Tinashe Dune and Dr Virginia Mapedzahama)
- The subjective experience of gender and life in a cross-cultural sample of female-to-male transgendered people (funding held by Associate Professor Gail Hawkes, Dr Amy Lykins, Dr Tiffany Jones, Dr Tinashe Dune and Dr Mitra Rashidian)
- UNE Sexual Health for University and Residential College Students (partners include: UNE Student Assist, UNE Medical Centre, UNE Head of Colleges, Hunter New England Local Health District, UNE CRN for Mental Health and Well-being)
- Supervision of 2 PhD students and 1 Masters student.
Areas of Teaching
Psychology, Health Sciences, Sociology, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods, Rehabilitation, Counseling.
Research interests
Sexual marginalization, sexual health, sex work, sexual agency and empowerment, GLBTQ.
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
Dune, T. M. (2012). Constructions of Sexuality and Disability: Implications for People with Cerebral Palsy. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-8465-9227-4
BOOK CHAPTERS
Dune, T. M., Mpofu, E., Evans, D., & Sullivan, G. (in press). Queering Multicultural Education. International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice eds. E. L. Brown, R. Craven, G. McClean (Volume 8: Gender and Sexuality). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Gwirayi, P., Mpofu, E., Hossain, Z., Dune, T. & Maruatona, S. L. (in press). Sexual and Reproductive Health. Keith, K.D. (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Reid, K. M., & Dune, T. M. (2010). Buy My Love: On Sex Workers, Golddiggers, and "Rules Girls". Dating: Philosophy for Everyone (pp. 101-113). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Dune, T. M. (2013). Re/Developing Models for Understanding Sexuality with Disability within Rehabilitation Counselling. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 16 (April).
Lukersmith, S., Hartley, S., Kuipers, P., Madden, R. H., Llewellyn, G. & Dune, T. (in press). Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) monitoring and evaluation methods and tools: a literature review. Disability and Rehabilitation.
Dune, T. M. (2013). Understanding Experiences of Sexuality with Cerebral Palsy through Sexual Script Theory. International Journal for Social Science Studies, 1(1), 1–12.
Dune, T. M. (2012). As I Am: A True Story of Adaptation to Physical Disability (Book Review). Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, 18(1), 66–69.
Dune, T. M. (2012). Sexuality and physical disability: Exploring the barriers and solutions in healthcare. Sexuality and Disability, 30(2), 247–256.
Dune, T. (2012). Sexual expression, fulfilment and haemophilia: reflections from the 16th Australian and New Zealand Haemophilia Conference. Haemophilia, published online.
Mpofu, E., Dune, T. M., Hallfors, D.D., Mapfumo, J., Mutepfa, M.M. & January, J., (2011). Apostolic Faith Church Organization Contexts for Health and Wellbeing in Women and Children. Ethnicity and Health, 16(6), 551–566.
Shuttleworth, R., Russell, C., Weerakoon, P., & Dune, T. (2010). Sexuality in Residential Aged Care: A Survey of Perceptions and Policies in Australian Nursing Homes. Sexuality and Disability, 28(2), 187-194.
Dune, T. M., & Shuttleworth, R. P. (2009). “It’s Just Supposed to Happen”: The Myth of Sexual Spontaneity and the Sexually Marginalized. Sexuality and Disability, 27(2), 97-108.
UNDER REVIEW
Hawkes, G. & Dune, T. (under review) Current Narratives of the Sexual Child. Sexualities.
Mpofu, E., Hallfors, D. D., Mutepfa, M. M. & Dune, T. M. (under review)A Mixed Methods Mapping of Church versus Secular School Messages to Influence Sexual Decision-Making as Perceived by Zimbabwean Orphan Girl Students. Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Mpofu, E., Dune, T. M., Hallfors, D. D., & Mutepfa, M. M. (under review). Influences of Church and Secular Schools on Sexual Decisions by Orphan Teenage Girls in an African Setting. American Journal of Public Health.
Madden, R., Dune, T., Lukersmith, S., Kuipers, P., Llewellyn, G., Hartley, S. H. &Gargett, A. (under review). The relevance of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in monitoring and evaluating Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR). Disability and Rehabilitation.
CONFERENCES
Hawkes, G., MacPhail, C., Dune, T., Pitts, M. & Minichiello, V. (2013, August 9th–11th). 'Beyond ageism and sexism - creating their own scripts: some reflections on social media participation by older Australian women’. The Society for the Study of Social Problems, 63rd Annual Meeting, Re-imagining Social Problems: Moving Beyond Social Constructionism (New York, USA).
Mapedzahama, V. & Dune T. (2013, May 6th–9th). "What kind of woman are you?": Zimbabwean Migrant women in Australia Negotiating the politics of dress. 7th Annual International Conference on Sociology (Athens, Greece).
Dune, T. & Hawkes, G. (2013, February 11th–13th). Pseudo-feminist theory and the transexual body. 2nd Global Conference: Queer Sexualities (Sydney, Australia).
McKay, K., Dune, T., MacPhail, C., Mapedzahama, V. & Maple, M. (2013, February 11th – 13th). Fairytales, Folklore and Femininity: Making sense of (un)sexed female body across time and space. 1st Global Conference: Time, Space andBody (Sydney, Australia).
Madden, R., Lukersmith, S., Phayboun, B., Nguyen, V. N., Ching, P., Phetsouvanh, B, , Soukhathammavong, S., Chomlath, K., Phuong Anh, T. T., Phuong, T. T., Huynh Thi, C. T., Chan, N. H., Llewellyn, G., Hartley, S., Kuipers, P., Dune, T. & Gargett, A. (2013). The ICF as foundation in the collaborative development of a CBR monitoring toolkit. Quality and Implementation of WHO FIC (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Dune, T., Hawkes, G. & Pitts, M. (2012, November 19–21st). Older Australian women’s perceptions of their bodies, ageing and sexuality: Implications for sexual health and wellbeing. First National Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference (Melbourne, Australia).
Hawkes, G. & Dune, T. (2012, July 6th). 'It just is': older women's accounts of living in the ageing body in 21st century Australia. BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group Conference 2012, Critical Perspectives; Future Challenges.
Dune, T. M. (2011, October 22nd). Enjoying your sex life: Issues and solutions for men with physical impairment. 16th Australian & New Zealand Haemophilia Conference.
Dune, T. M. (2011, May 20th). Sexuality in Rehabilitation Counselling: Breaching Barriers. Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors (ASORC) National Conference.
Dune, T. M., & Pearce, C. (2010, December 3rd). Friend or Fetish: Images of (A)Sexuality. The Image Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
Dune, T. (2009, November 3-4th). Expectations of spontaneous sex and cerebral palsy. Biennial Faculty of Health Sciences Research Higher Degree Student Conference: Emerging Researchers in Health Sciences (Lidcombe, Australia.)
Dune, T. (2008, November 11-12th). “It’s just supposed to happen”: The myth of sexual spontaneity. Faculties of Health Research Conference: “From Cell to Society 6” (Blue Mountains, Australia).
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Dune, T., Hawkes, G., Pereira, M. Scott, J. & Jones, T. (2012). eduONE module: Homophobia
Dune, T. M. (2010, September 1st). Sexuality Counselling in Rehabilitation. BACH 2143: Counselling and Behaviour Management for CD. Lecture conducted from University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Dune, T. M. (2010). Sexuality Counselling in Rehabilitation for the Masters in Special Education, Zimbabwe Open University, Harare, Zimbabwe.
NEWSLETTERS
Dune, T. M. (2011). Using the ICF to understand sexuality and Cerebral Palsy. WHO Family of International Classifications Newsletter, 9(2).
OTHER ARTICLES
Minichiello, V., Dune, T. 'From homophobia to homophilia: The future face of medicine'. The Conversation, May 2012.
McKay, K., Dune, T., MacPhail, C., Mapedzahama, V. & Maple, M. (in press). Fairytales, Folklore and Femininity: Making sense of (un)sexed female body across time and space, In the 1st Global Conference: Time, Space and Body E-book.