Professor Victor Minichiello -
Areas of Teaching
Professor Minichiello's teaching interests include: research methods (both qualitative and quantitative research designs), gerontology, sexual health, health policy, the health care system, public health, health promotion and sociological aspects of health and illness.
He has successfully supervised higher degree research projects using surveys, quasi-experimental designs, qualitative in-depth interviews and focus groups on topics as varied as, for example:
- Professional and personal responses of paramedics exposed to child death
- How stories change: A qualitative analysis of the role of narrative in making sense of life transformations
- Models of care in small rural communities
- The applicability of the NSW quality teaching model to the Jordanian primary school context
- Psychotherapy integration: When theory meets practice
- Music in the lives of older people
- The pressures of modern manhood: The role of homophobia in shaping the gender and sexual identities of Australian men
- Using photographs to understand the experiences of older people migrating to and living in a New South Wales coastal town
- Midlife career transitions for male scientists and engineers
- Exploring the links between SES and syphilis and the factors involved for rural clients accessing services for STI's in Northern NSW
- Parental portraits of suicide: Narrating the loss of a young adult child
- Managing sexually transmissible infections in clinical practice: Evidence from New South Wales, Australia
- The determinants of staff morale among registered nurses in a convenience sample of acute health care facilities
- Cystic fibrosis: Shaping an information model to meet the needs of patients and carers
- The experience of vunlnerability, connectivity and resilience in sex workers
- Understanding the views of Thailand community hospital directors in implementing the universal health coverage policy in primary health care
- Retirees in the 21'st century: The experience of retirement in a time of change
- Discourses in sexual health consultations: Interactions between practitioners and patients
- The lives of elderly widowed women who live on the land
- Nurses' perceptions of the interactions with patients regarding sexual issues
- Quality of care for residents in aged care facilities: Development, evaluation and review of clinical indicators of care
- HIV/AIDS counselling and suicide discourse
- The meaning of the acoustic neuroma experience
- Change: Its effect on the life of middle aged women
- How do older incontinent patients manage incontinence in their later years of life?
- Autonomy and independence: Does it exist in nursing homes?
- From ambiguity to action: An insider's perspective on the role of the community nurse in Australia
- Why men still have unsafe sex
- Becoming homophobic: Aspects of the formation of modern male self
- Tai Chi and emotional expression for people living with HIV
- Homosexuality, ageing and social support
- Sexual harassment and Australian registered nurses
- Male sex workers: Safe sex interactions and social contexts
- Grief and the experience of living with a life threatening illness
- Sexually transmitted diseases: Knowledge, confidence in sexual situations and unsafe sex behaviour in two groups of University students
- Mother's connecting: Views from women giving birth
- The spiritual dimension of ageing
- Developing family resilience when one member has cancer
- Constructing counselling awareness on sexuality
If you would like to discuss undertaking a higher research degree project with Professor Victor Minichiello, please do not hesitate to contact him.