1pm
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Melanie So Lin Cheng, Department of General Practice and Angela Clarke, CHS, University of Melbourne.
Brokerage is currently one of the many models being used to improve Aboriginal Australians’ access to medical services. In 2006 the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) launched [...]
1pm
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Therese Riley
There is now considerable evidence that civic engagement (defined as participation in group associations and activities) is good for an individual’s health and some evidence that it may also contribute to community wellbeing. At the same time there is increasing interest in the role of [...]
1pm
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Raelene West
This qualitative PhD study explores the experiences of adults who have acquired a permanent impairment of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) receiving support services in Victoria, with particular emphasis on the experiences and understandings of associated compensatory processes and rights.
The study explores both the support and [...]
1pm
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Anna Harris
Overseas doctors (international medical graduates) are often described as having to adapt to ‘the system’ in Australia. This system is neatly delineated in governmental policies, accreditation guidelines, bridging courses and hospital orientation manuals as something learnable and contained. From my ethnographic research I argue otherwise.
For [...]
Hans Baer and Melbourne University Bookshop invite you to the launch of two books:
‘Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health’ and ‘Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm’
To be launched on Tuesday 28th April from 6.00pm for 6.30pm start in the Executive Lounge, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry street, Carlton.
Please [...]
1pm
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Dr Belinda Robson
In this paper I will discuss the shift in the mode of care for people with mental illness from asylums to community. I will use the eyes of the first Chairman of the Victorian Mental Hygiene Authority, the English psychiatrist Eric Cunningham Dax (1908-2008) [...]
1pm
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Caitlin Murray
School of Historical Studies and CHS, University of Melbourne
In 1889, at a gathering of medical gentlemen in Melbourne, Dr F. Norton Manning asserted that insanity was increasing among Aboriginal people at an alarming rate. Manning argued that prior to contact with Europeans, Aboriginal people suppressed [...]
9.30-10.30am, Tues 3rd March 2009
Seminar Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Confirmation seminar presented by David Broderick
This research aims to increase understanding of young people’s experiences of and attitudes to school discipline, school community and notions of justice. For over 375,000 Victorian young people the secondary school environment is the primary source of social interaction and experiences [...]
Presented by Tara Nipe
Thursday 18th December, 10am,
Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
All Welcome.
Tara Nipe is a current PhD student in the Centre for Health and Society. Tara is a registered nurse, and has a Masters of Social Health (Ethics) and a Masters of Social Health (Anthropology). Her current research builds on a previous [...]
Friday 12th December, 3.00pm-5.30pm
(followed by drinks in the Hub)
Rm 410 (Centre for Health and Society) Level 4, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton
Associate Professor Lyndal Jones (Director Research, Creative Media, RMIT University)
The Avoca Project is an international art project in regional Victoria centred on the ‘Swiss House’ – a prefabricated gold-rush residence imported from Switzerland (or perhaps [...]
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