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  Professor Jane  Farmer <em></em>  </h2>
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  Head of School, Associate Dean, Regional  </p>
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    La Trobe Rural Health School  
    
        
      
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      <h3>Qualifications</h3>
  <p>MA St.Andrews, PhD Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland,  PG Diploma, Information Science, PG Cert Tertiary Level Teaching, raduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)</p>
      
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          <h3>Brief Profile</h3>
    <p>Jane is Head of the La Trobe Rural Health School. Based in Bendigo, LRHS has other campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Shepparton and Mildura. Responsible for leading the growth of undergraduate and postgraduate health and human sciences courses to provide services workers in regional and rural Australia, Jane is also leading development of a programme of research called World Class Regional Health System, designed to address models for contemporary and future rural communities. Her current research interests focus on rural community participation, measuring well-being produce and designing and developing innovative rural service delivery models. Current projects include: sustainability community participation partnership to develop health services and health enhancement initiatives that are prioritized by local people.</p>
<p>Until 2010, Jane was Chair of Rural Health Policy and Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Health at the University of the Highlands &amp; Islands (UHI) in Inverness, Scotland.</p>
<p><strong>Other appointments &amp; awards</strong></p>
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    <li>Scottish Government Health Service Independent Scrutiny Panel, 2009.</li>
    <li>Scottish Government Remote &amp; Rural Implementation Group 2009-2010.</li>
    <li>Member of National Advisory Committee on Rural Development 2008-2010.</li>
    <li>Member of Scottish Parliament Cross-party Rural Group 2007-2010.</li>
    <li>Steinerowski A, Jack S, Farmer J (2009) &lsquo;Who are the social entrepreneurs and what do they actually do?&rsquo; Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. (Won The Lewis Institute Award at Babson College, Boston, USA for the Best Paper Exploring the Significance of Social Entrepreneurship.)</li>
    <li>European Union Regional RegioStars 2012 Finalist: Older people for Older people project.</li>
    <li>Best Scottish Industry-Academy Partnership Project in the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Scotland Awards for Remote Service Futures, 2011</li>
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<p><strong>Research interests</strong></p>
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    <li>Rural health</li>
    <li>Rural healthcare policy     &nbsp;</li>
    <li>Community participation in service design &amp; delivery</li>
    <li>Rural community sustainability</li>
    <li>Innovative rural service models</li>
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      <h3>Research interests</h3><h4> Health Services and policy reform </h4><p>- rural health, rural healthcare policy, community participation in service design & delivery<h4> Rural and Regional Health </h4><p>- Community Participation   
    
  

 
    
    <h3>Recent Publications</h3>
    <div><p><strong>Books</strong></p>
<p>Farmer J, Hill C, Munoz S-A (2012) Community Co-Production: Social enterprise in remote and rural areas. Northampton MA, Edward Elgar. [Aug 2012]</p>
<p><strong>Chapters in books</strong></p>
<p>Farmer J, Prior ME, Nimegeer A (2012) How important are health professionals to sustainable rural communities? In: Martin J ed. The sustainability of Australia&rsquo;s country towns. Ballarat Australia, VURRN Press.</p>
<p>Steinerowski A, Bradley S, Munoz S-A, Farmer J, Fielding S (2011) Participation for health and wellbeing: factors associated&nbsp; with older people&rsquo;s participation in remote and rural communities. Ch.13. pp.179-191. In: Angus DA &amp; Boutsioli Z eds. Health studies: economics, management and policy. Athens: Athens Institute of Education &amp; Research.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Munoz S-A, Steinerowski A, Bradley S (2010) Health, wellbeing and community involvement of older people in rural Scotland. Ch.12. pp. 128-144. In: Le, Q ed. Health and wellbeing: a social and cultural perspective. New York: Nova Science.</p>
<p><strong>Papers in refereed journals </strong></p>
<p>Farmer J, Nimegeer A, Farrington J, Rodger G (2012) Rural citizen&rsquo;s rights to accessible health services: an exploration. Sociologia Ruralis, 52(1), 134-144.</p>
<p>Nimegeer A, Farmer J, West C, Currie M (2011) Addressing the problem of rural community engagement in healthcare service design.&nbsp; Health &amp; Place, 17, 1004-6.</p>
<p>Dawson P, Farmer J, Thomson E (2011) The power of stories to persuade: the storying of midwives and the financial narratives of central policymakers. Journal of Management &amp; Organization, 17, 146-164.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Currie M, Hyman J, West C, Arnott N (2011) Evaluation of physician assistants in NHS Scotland. Scottish Medical Journal, 56, 130-4.</p>
<p>Caldow J, Hundley V, van Teijlingen E, Reid J, Kiger A, Tucker J, Ireland J, Harris F, Farmer J, Bryers H (2011) General practitioner involvement in remote and rural maternity care: too big a challenge? International Journal of Childbirth, 1,1, 27-38.</p>
<p>Prior M, Farmer J, Godden D, Taylor J (2010) More than health: the added value of health care to rural communities in Scotland and Australia. Health &amp; Place, 16, 1136-1144.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Philip L, King G, Farrington J, MacLeod M (2010) Territorial tensions: misaligned management and community perspectives on health services for older people in remote rural areas. Health &amp; Place, 16, 275-83.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Clark A, Munoz, S-A (2010) Is a global remote and rural health research agenda desirable or is context supreme? Australian Journal of Rural Health, 18, 96-101.</p>
<p>Tucker J, McVicar A, Pitchforth E, Farmer J, Bryers H (2010) Maternity care models in a remote and rural network: assessing clinical appropriateness and outcome indicators. Quality &amp; Safety in Health Care, 19(2), 83-9.</p>
<p>Farmer J Kilpatrick S (2009) Are rural health professionals also social entrepreneurs? Social Science &amp; Medicine, 69, 1651-8.</p></div>
            <h3>Older Publications</h3>
    <div><p>Matsumoto M, Inoue K, Farmer J, Inada H, Kajii E (2009) Geographic  distribution of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain. Health  &amp; Place, 16, 164-166.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Currie M (2009) Evaluating the outcomes of rural health policy. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 17, 53-7.</p>
<p>Pitchforth E, van Teijlingen E, Watson V, Tucker J, Kiger A, Ireland  J, Farmer J, Rennie A-M, Gibb, S, Thomson E, Ryan M (2009) &lsquo;Choice&rsquo; and  place of delivery: a qualitative study of women in remote and rural  Scotland. Quality &amp; Safety in Health Care, 18(1), 42-8.</p>
<p>King G, Farmer J (2009) What older people want: evidence from a study  of remote Scottish communities. Rural and Remote Health, 9, 2009, 1166.</p>
<p>Thomson E, Farmer J, Tucker JS (2008) Informing debate or fuelling  dispute? Media communication of reconfiguration in Scotland&rsquo;s rural  maternity care.&nbsp; Social Policy and Administration, 42(7), 789-812.</p>
<p>Pitchforth E, Watson V, Tucker J, Ryan M, van Teijlingen E, Farmer J,  Ireland J, Thomson E, Kiger A, Bryers H (2008) Models of intrapartum  care and women&rsquo;s trade-offs in remote and rural Scotland: a mixed  methods study. British Journal of Obstetrics &amp; Gynaecology, 115(5),  560-69.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Steinerowski A, Jack S (2008) Starting social enterprises  in remote and rural Scotland: the best or the worst of circumstances?&nbsp;  International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 6(3),  450-464.</p>
<p>Steinerowski A, Jack S, Farmer J (2008) Social entrepreneurship in a  rural context: an ideological &ldquo;state&rdquo;?&nbsp; Journal of Rural Enterprise and  Management, 4(1) 20-38.</p>
<p>Hundley VA, Tucker JS, Teijlingen EV, Kiger A, Ireland JC, Harris F,  Farmer J, Caldow JL, Bryers H.&nbsp; (2007) Midwives&rsquo; competence: is it  affected by working in a rural location?&nbsp; Rural and Remote Health 7:  764.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Farmer J (2007) Connected care in a fragmented world: lessons from  rural health care.&nbsp; British Journal of General Practice, 57(536) 225-30.</p>
<p>Farmer J, Dawson P, Martin E, Tucker J (2007)&nbsp; Rurality, remoteness  and the change process: evidence from a study of maternity services in  the north of Scotland.&nbsp; Health Services Management Research, 20(1),  59-68.</p>
<p>Saltman D, O&rsquo;Dea N, Farmer J, Veitch C, Rosen G, Kidd MR (2007)  Groups or teams in healthcare: finding the best fit. Journal of  Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 13(1) 55-60.</p>
<p>Ireland J, Bryers H, van Teijlingen E, Hundley V, Farmer J, Harris F,  Tucker J, Kiger A, Caldow J (2007)&nbsp; Competencies and skills for remote  and rural maternity care: a review of the literature.&nbsp; Journal of  Advanced Nursing, 58(2) 105-11.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Farmer J, Iversen L, Campbell C, Guest C, Chesson R, Deans G, MacDonald J. (2006) Rural/urban differences in accounts of patients&rsquo; initial decisions to consult primary care.&nbsp; Health and Place, 12, 210-221.</p>
<p>Lauder W, Reel S, Farmer J, Griggs H (2006) Social capital, rural nursing and rural nursing theory.&nbsp; Nursing Inquiry, 13(1) 73-9. Farmer J, Hinds K, Richards H, Godden D. (2005) Scottish rural and urban health care: a survey of access, satisfaction and expectations. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 10(4), 212-9.</p>
<p>Farmer J, West C, Whyte B, Maclean M (2005) Primary healthcare teams as adaptive organisations: exploring and explaining work variation using case studies in rural and urban Scotland. Health Services Management Research, 18, 151-164.</p>
<p>Richards HM, Farmer J, Selvaraj S (2005)&nbsp; Sustaining the rural primary healthcare workforce: survey of healthcare professionals in the Scottish Highlands.&nbsp; Remote &amp; Rural Health, 5, 365-378.</p>
<p>Tucker J, Kiger A, Bryers H, Caldow J, Farmer J, Harris F, Hundley V, van Teijlingen E. (2005) Sustainable maternity services in remote and rural Scotland?&nbsp; A qualitative survey of staff views on required skills, competencies and training.&nbsp; Quality and Safety in Health Care, 14, 34-40. &nbsp;</p></div>