Staff profile

Dr Janice Pascal

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Health and Environment

HH-1.11, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

B.Ed. Psych, (Uni Melb) BSW Hons, PhD (La Trobe)

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Association of Social Work; Rural Social Work Action Group; Australian Association of Oncology Social Workers

Area of study

Public Health

Brief Profile

Jan is a senior academic and postgraduate course work coordinator  in the La Trobe Rural Health School, Bendigo campus. Her research interests include psychosocial well-being during illness, crisis and loss, using phenomenolgical and hermeneutic approaches. Jan is a qualified social worker and is interested in the whole person in health contexts. Teaching includes research methods; epidemiology;  counselling skills and health promotion. Jan supervises PhD and Masters candidates.

Research interests

Chronic disease

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Teaching Units

PhE1 IDH; PHE2AHR; PHE3EPI, PHE3COS

Recent Publications

 

Thompson, N and Pascal, J. (2011).  Reflective practice: An existentialist perspective. Reflective Practice: International and multidisciplinary perspectives. 12, 2 pp 15-26.

Pascal, J and Endacott, R. (2010) The existential and ethical challenges of a cancer diagnosis. Journal of Medical Ethics.  36 (5), pp 279-283.

Pascal, J. (2010) Space, place and psychosocial well-being: Women’s experience of breast cancer at an environmental retreat. Illness, Crisis, Loss. 18, 3 pp 201-216

Pascal, J. (2010) Phenomenology as a research method for social work contexts: A case study of cancer survival. Currents: New scholarship in human services.9, 2 pp 1-23

Pascal, J., Johnston, N., Dore, C. and Trainor, R (2010). The lived experience of doing phenomenology: Perspectives from beginning health science postgraduate researchers. Qualitative Social Work (first on line 18 May, 2010).

Pascal, J and Sawtell, J (2009). Ethics of being emic: Considerations of well-being when researching “inside” small communities. Well-Being. Dec Issue, 2009.

Pascal, J and Brown, G. (2009).   Ontology, epistemology and methodology of teaching research methods. In M. Garner, C. Wagner and Kawulich, B. Teaching research methods in the social sciences. Ashgate: UK

Pascal, J. Endacott, R and Lehmann, J. (2009). For the time being: Exploring the temporality of cancer survival. Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer, 8,2 pp 141-149

Ward-Carter, A. Pascal, J and Hill, A. (2008). The Otis Experience. In Garlick, B. Jones, D and Luscombe, G. Beyond Beige: Improving architecture for older people and people with disabilities. ACT: Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

Pascal, J (2005). My story/their story of cancer survival: Reflections from inside the rural research fieldwork experience. Journal of Rural Social Work and Community Practice, 10, 1 p 10-18.

Recent Conference presentations:

Pascal, J (2009). Space, place and psychosocial well-being: Women’s experience of breast cancer at an environmental retreat. Union Internationale Contra Cancer (UICC) Conference, Brisbane, 2009 (paper written by Dr J Pascal and presented by Mr A Barling, FRACS.

Pascal, J (2009). Space and place for oncology social work practice. Paper presented at the Rural Social Work Action Group 9th National Conference, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 2009.

Pascal, J and Mackay, G (2009). Our post post-graduate narratives of rural undergraduate and postgraduate social work. Paper presented at the Rural Social Work Action Group 9th National Conference, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

 

 

Research projects

Women's experience of breast cancer in rural communities.

The lived experience of cancer survival: Heideggerian perspectives.

The psychosocial experience of women with breast cancer at an environmental retreat

The experience of SE Asian migrants to a regional community: Understanding social capital and well-being

Future narratives of regional communities affected by climate change