Staff profile

Dr Francine Hanley

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Health Sciences Research Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology)

Area of study

Deaf studies and Auslan
Health Policy

Brief Profile

Dr Francine Hanley completed her PhD at Victoria University with a critical and theoretical investigation into the methodological assumptions structuring psychological knowledge on the body image.

She joined the Australian Centre for Primary Care and Ageing in 2010 after completion of a project and review of best practices in psychosocial rehabilitation to veterans through the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include questions around: access to mental health services; the place and importance of client-centred analyses to the provision of quality services in health and mental health; contested paradigms in the delivery of health and mental health services; and the structure of knowledge in the human sciences and its relationship to method.

 

 

 

Research interests

Health Services and policy reform

- Access to appropriate mental health services

Recent Publications

Hanley, F., Matthews, L. R., Lewis, V. J. (2011). Exploring the meaning of best practice: A discussion on the way client-centred psychosocial rehabilitation services might address the needs of Australian veterans in the future. International Journal of Disability Management, 6,10-21.

Hanley, F., Matthews, L., Lewis, V., & Gardner, L. (2010). A psychosocial approach to veteran rehabilitation. Traumatic Stresspoints: Newsletter of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 24, 2-3.

 

Older Publications

Hanley, F., Lewis, V. & Matthews, L. (2009). Psychosocial Rehabilitation for Veterans: Final report. Melbourne: Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Retrieved at http://www.dva.gov.au/rehabilitation/research/Pages/psychosocial_rehabilitation.aspx

Hanley, F. (2005). The dynamic body image and the moving body: Re-visiting Schilder’s theory for psychological research. Scan, 2 (2). Accessed at http://www.scan.net.au/scan/journal/journal_about.php

Hanley, F. (2004). The Dynamic Body Image and the Moving Body: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. PhD thesis thesis, Victoria University. Accessed at http://eprints.vu.edu.au/311/

 

 

 

Research projects

Pathways to mental health care for the Deaf: Identifying mechanisms and processes supporting ongoing access to services for Vicdeaf clients. Research Support Grant from the Institute for Social Patrticipation, La Trobe University.