Staff

• Disability
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• Remote and Regional Communities
• Service Delivery in Remote and Regional Communities
• Community Development
• Impact of Extractive Industries on Remote Communities

Shara Smith

Discipline Lead and Course Coordinator Counselling and Mental Health Programs

Lecturer in Counselling and Mental Health

health_cc_couns@une.edu.au ssmit293@une.edu.au

• Public Health
• One Health
• Health Management
• eHealth
• Mental Health

• Mental health (including substance use)
• Patient safety issues
• Disasters
• Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Young peoples’ health

• Carer Support
• Disability
• Chronic Disease
• Family and Child Health

Matt Krug
Course Coordinator - Bachelor of Nursing

• Student Retention
• Health Management
• Rural Workforce
• Leadership
• Rural and Remote Nursing
• Emergency Nursing
• Data Analytics

(02) 6773 4351
mkrug4@une.edu.au

health_cc_bn@une.edu.au

• Emergency Nursing
• Prehospital Emergency Care
• First Responder
• Rural and Remote Nursing Care
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health
• Curriculum Development and Learning Design
• Mixed Methods Research and use of Medical Records for Data Extraction

Dr Anthea Fagan

Lecturer in Nursing

• Clinical confidence/competence in mental health nursing
• Clinical experiences of undergraduate nurses
• Grief and loss
• Mental health
• Mental health promotion
• Migration and acculturation
• Nurse education
• Therapeutic relationship

Professor Myfanwy Maple
Professor in Social Work

• Lived, and living, experiences of suicide
• Suicide (prevention, intervention and postvention)
• Traumatic loss and grief
• Mental health and illness, particularly in regional areas
• Family and community contexts
• Indigenous issues
• Rural student education, in particular for social work
• Embedded evaluations, co-creation methods
• Qualitative methods, in particular, narrative inquiry

• Practitioner experiences of practice, especially in child welfare
• Child protection policy
• Social work with vulnerable families in complex circumstances
• Unpacking complex organisational issues that impact social work practice
• Developing philosophy for practice
• Family and domestic violence in rural communities and primary prevention
• Community development

• Nature and prevalence of use of complementary medicine in Australia
• Models for the education and training of CAM practitioners, and the roles of and interactions between University and vocational sector providers
• CAM in medical curriculum
• Relationships between CAM and medical practitioners, particularly in rural areas
• Integration of vocational training into higher education

A/Prof Joy Spark 
Associate Professor of Pharmacy

• Person centred care
• Pharmacy education
• Pharmacy practice
• Compounding

Phone: 02 6773 1705
Email: jspark@une.edu.au

Phone: 02 6773 5100
Email: ben.greatrex@une.edu.au