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Staff profile

Zoe Callaghan
Ms Zoe O’Callaghan

PhD Student
Phone: +61 (0)2 6024 9706
Email: zeocallaghan@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

  • RN – St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours – Sociology, Anthropology) – La Trobe University

Biography

  • Honours thesis by research – "Hero to zero: A study of success and failure narratives of elite athletes"
  • Zoe has worked in nursing, as a researcher, research assistant and a sessional lecturer and tutor in sociology and qualitative research methods for health professionals
  • Research interests encompass ageing, rurality, farming, identity, storying and biography.

Research Title


Men on the land: The identities of baby boom farmers in the border country.
A study investigating how male farmers within the first wave of baby boomers see themselves in old age