Dr Tania Pearce
Lecturer in Health and Community Care - School of Health
Mobile: 61438611251
Email: tpearc20@une.edu.au
Biography
Tania Pearce is a Lecturer in Health and Community Services in the School of Health at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW. She has over 20 years of experience in health information research and has worked on several research projects focusing on suicide prevention and program evaluation. In 2022 Tania completed her doctoral research on program evaluation, where she examined the use of co-creation and co-design as a way of increasing the research capacity of non-government organisations. Her teaching focus is on community services and mentoring of research projects for undergraduate, postgraduate and Honours social work students.
Qualifications
- 2022 Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England
- 2014 Master of Social Work, University of New England
- 1991 Graduate Diploma in Information Management, University of New South Wales
- 1990 Bachelor of Arts, University of New England
Teaching Areas
Dr Pearce teaches across the UNE Community Services and Social Work Program at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Her current teaching areas include:
HDCW213: Case Management in Community Services
HLTH310/510: Foundations for Mental Health Practice
HLTH305/405: Capstone Project
HLTH554A: Capstone Project (Mentor for Master of Social Work Students)
Primary Research Area/s
Co-creation; Suicide Prevention; Social WorkResearch Interests
- Co-creation and program evaluation
- Suicide (prevention, intervention and postvention)
- Systematic Reviews
Research Supervision Experience
Tania is currently supervising PhD, MPhil and Bachelor (Hons) students in areas such as peer worker supervision and leadership in mental health and suicide prevention and research approaches to self-disclosure and sexual assault. Tania specialises in supervising research such as systematic and scoping reviews as well as mixed method and qualitative methodologies.
