Global Utilities

School of Public Health

Research Supervision

Staff available for supervision

Supervision is available across the following areas of research:
* Staff available for principal supervision of students

Simon Barraclough*

Public policy in health; tobacco and health; international relations in health; comparative health systems; health in Southeast Asia; export activities of the Australian health industry.

Peter Foreman

Work and health; occupational rehabilitation; stress; case management.

Kathleen Gregory

Buddhist philosophy/psychology, postmodern/constructivist theories, psychoanalytic theory; philosophy of mind; critical psychology; critical/reflective enquiry into the practice/theory of counselling.

Rick (F.A.) Hayes Men's health promotion in Australia; strategic frameworks for health promotion; older men's access to health and welfare services (MAHRS); health promotion with emerging communities in Australia; the use of Antonosvky's "sense of coherence construct" for developing health promotion theory and practice; creating supportive environments for health and personal health development through groups in "healthy settings"; community-campus partnerships and community-based participatory research.

Sandra Leggat*

Performance monitoring and improvement; human resource management, especially the link to organisational performance; teaching and learning teamwork skills; health system marketing, planning and evaluation.

David Legge*

Health policy; health promotion; primary health care; public health; community development in health; political economy of health; management of performance in health care; clinical governance; health system reform; health policy in China; Indigenous health.

Zhanming Liang

Health Reforms and the change of management practice; Evidence-based management practice; Competencies for senior health executives; Turnover among senior healthcare workforce.

Pranee Liamputtong*

Medical anthropology; international health; women's health; children's health; migrants' health; Aboriginal health; health sociology; qualitative research methods.

Vivian Lin*

Public health policy; comparative health systems; health planning; social determinants of health; globalisation and health; work and health; ethnicity/gender/class and health; health governance; public health systems.

Chaojie Liu* Health policy development in China; modeling China health insurance schemes; managing for performance in the Chinese hospital system - information systems and decision making.

Hannah Menahemi

Experiential art therapy processes; narrative in images and words; visual culture; perception; limitations of seeing and insight; PTSD; 'hardiness' resilience and the capacity for change.

Lawrie Moloney*

Conflict management; decision-making principles and processes in family law; child-focused and child inclusive dispute management processes; policy responses to family transistion.

Gregory Murphy*

Injury rehabilitation; human resource management; human service organisations; workplace health promotion; organisational behaviour; rural health and rehabilitation; employment and disability.

Paul O'Halloran*

Psychological benefits of physcial activity; determinants of physcial activity; physical activity and type 2 diabetes; physical activity and mental health; stress; performance psychology; psychosocial aspects of sports injury.

Likun Pei* Management training for health administration; evaluation of ehalth service management education programs; human resource management; performance management in Chinese hospitals; health policy reform in China

Jane Pierson*

Gerontic neuropsychology; cognitive and psychosocial aspects of dementia and stroke; stroke rehabilitation; changes in cognitive function associated iwth normal ageing.

Stephen Polgar Psychosocial theory building; smoking and mental illness; reconstructive neurosurgery; memory models.
Kerin Robinson Health information policy and practice, including electronic health information and related issues; health information ethics; health care quality and clinical risk management.

Priscilla Robinson*

Epidemiology; communicable diseases (particularly meningococcal disease); the environment and health; communicable diseases in developing countries; public health and public health law; newspaper reporting of health events.

Bruce Rumbold*

Palliative care; social aspects of caring relationships; illness narratives; pastoral and spiritual care.

Jean Rumbold*

Client experience of therapy; client/therapist constructions of therapy; collaborative and arts-based research methodologies.

Margot Schofield* Counselling and psychotherapy process and outcomes; clinical supervision process and outcomes; counselling and psychotherapy workforce, policy and service delivery; mental health; relational violence; positive psychology; spirituality and health; quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Hal Swerissen*

Health services research (including program evaluation and cost effectiveness studies) in primary health care; chronic illnesses, health promotion and rural health; health policy analysis.

Rae Walker*

Health promotion services; trust between organisations; inter organisational relationships; primary health care services; collaboration and the coordination of services; violence prevention.

Dianne Williamson Health information management, especially in relation to standards.

George Wills*

Investigations into process experiential therapy from the viewpoints of the client and the counsellor.

 

Additional Resources

Research and Graduate Studies Office

Postgraduate Handbook

Writing in English

Gowers, E. & B. Fraser (1973). The complete plain words. London, HMSO.

Strunk, W. & E. B. White (1979). The elements of style. New York, Macmillan Publishing.

Adademic Writing

There is a useful website at http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html

Guide to Essay Writing

Guide to essay writing for students in the Department of Counselling and Psychological Health is available.

 

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Last Updated: 3 July, 2008