Monthly Archives: July 2009

McCaughey Centre Public Lecture 26-Aug-09: The Spirit Level, presented by Prof Richard Wilkinson

The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better
Presented by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
6.00 – 7.00pm, Wednesday 26 August, 2009
Sunderland Theatre, Corner Grattan St and Royal Parade, Medical Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville

MSPH Seminar 5-Aug-09: Postponed until further notice

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 5th Aug 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne and Dr Rebecca Bentley, Melbourne School of Population Health
Please note that the seminar on “Precarious employment and psychosocial stressors at work: relationships with mental health in two samples of working Australians” will be postponed until further notice.
All [...]

McCaughey Centre Seminar 30-Jul-09: Community University Partnerships in Practice

10am – 12pm, Thursday 30 July, 2009
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
This seminar will introduce participants to the work of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) at the University of Brighton. CUPP’s university staff, students and local communities develop real solutions to real problems, using University resources to tackle disadvantage and [...]

McCaughey Centre Seminar Series 09: Semester Two Program

The program for the McCaughey Centre’s Semester Two Seminar Series is now available. Included in this semester’s program are seminars around the subjects of community-university partnerships, grant writing, family violence and a range of the McCaughey Centre’s projects.
The full program can be viewed below, and further detail about individual seminars will be posted on this [...]

KCWHS Research Seminar 3-August-09. Disappointed Hope: The Experiences of Non-Indigenous Health Practitioners in a Remote Northern Territory Settlement

11am – 12noon, Monday 3rd August 2009
Seminar Room, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton (Centre for MEGAEpi)
Presented by Dr Rosememary Mann, Research Fellow, McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
All enquiries to Fulya Torun, Tel: 03 8344 0616

MSPH Seminar 22-Jul-09: Narrative based medicine – theoretical considerations and empirical examples of the use of stories in healthcare research

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 22nd Jul 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care, University College London
A story (narrative) is an account of events unfolding over time, in which there is a breach from the expected and in which literary devices, especially emplotment (the juxtaposition of events [...]

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