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Student Theses

Resilience in transition, health service volunteering and undergraduate rural placements are just a few of the research topics that have captured the imaginations of the rural health research higher degree students. Our Master of Medical Science and PhD candidates are enrolled either full or part-time through the UDRH. They have diverse backgrounds including nursing, medicine, pharmacy, teaching and project management, a diversity that reflects the multidisciplinary nature of rural health.

PhD Projects

  • Brookes, Heather
    Rural Community Development: discourses, processes and their impact upon community members
  • Cane, Rosemary
    An analysis of the social dynamic factors and psychosocial resources impacting on oral health care within the rural primary health care setting
  • Carnes, Debra
    How is quality and safety dealt with in relation to the clinical nursing practice of nurses working in remote health settings?
  • Chiu, Cecilia
    Aged care for older Tasmanian people: A spatial approach for addressing disparities and planning services.
  • Dalton, Lisa - Graduated
    Us and them: Rural 'other' in undergradaute nursing pharmacy and medical discourse on rural difference
  • Elmer, Shandell
    Community particpation processes in health service organsiations in relation to national health policy and industry standards
  • Fitzpatrick, Alex
    Children caring for a parent WMID
  • Hannah, Chona
    Health and wellbeing of intermarried Filipino Women in Rural Tasmania
  • Harris, Martin
    "Resilience in transition" thriving in an environment of geographical dislocation
  • Henshaw, John
    Does prereferral direct and indirect communication between referrals and physician improve initial patient outcomes at a rural specialist pain service?
  • Hetherington, Sharon
    Physical Activity and Healthy Ageing: The Effects of Enhanced Social Support
  • Hoang, Ha
    Maternity car and services in rural Tasmania: The perspectives of rural women and health professionals
  • Johns, Susan
    Finding common ground: An examination of the development, sustainability and community outcomes for health, education and community partnerships in Tasmanian rural communities
  • Lancaster, Anne-Marie
    Emotional Archeology - emotional literacy as an underpinning to self reflection and emotional wellbeing in teachers
  • Minstrell, Melinda
    Specialist breast nurses: developing an evidence-base for Tasmanian practice
  • Routley, Georgina
    The changing culture of dementia diagnosis
  • Spinaze, Anna
    Evolving primary health and wellbeing systems for sustainable positive health outcomes in rural and remote Tasmanian communities; in the context of workforce dynamics and socal change
  • Squibb, Kate
    Bioethics and rural radiography and the implications for expanded scope of practice
  • Stirling, Christine - Graduated
    The trouble with volunteers
  • Tran, Chau
    Perception of Vietnamese rural-background migrants on preventative health: An intercultural perspective
  • White, Robert
    Qualitative investigation into stages of development within a gay male population
  • Yue, Yun (Maria)
    Health and wellbeing of international students in an Australian tertiary discourse
  • Zuydam, Yvonna
    The impact of changes to health service delivery on rural communities with particular reference to how change affects the working lives of the nurses
  • van Derploeg,Winifred
    The prevalence of functional health literacy of the North West Local Government areas of Tasmania
  • van Galen, Ree
    Primary health care and rural community nurses
 

Masters Projects

  • Arvier, Peter - Graduated
    The training and education of emergency medicine doctors in rural and regional Australia
  • Aslin, Glenn
    Ambulance involvement in the treatment of palliative care clients within the rural areas
  • Edwards, Dale
    Community perceptions of the role of ambulance services and the development of a health promotion strategy to improve knowledge and understanding
  • Diep, Thi-Le
    Vietnamese-born health professionals' views and attitudes towards rurality and rural health
  • Harris, Andrew
    Developing culturally appropriate therapeutic pathways for African men in Tasmania
  • Hoang, Ha - Graduated
    A cross-cultural study of the views and attitudes towards maternity care held by migrants in rural Tasmania
  • Jones, Fiona
    What is the impact of a generic, integrated multiskilled model of volnteer service delivery on rural volunteers within the rural health system
  • Lowe, Shelagh
    Primary health care in rural and remote Australia: GP lead multidiscplinary teams - how have Australian Government rural health policies been put into practice?
  • McCall, Michael
    Advanced airway management training - efficiency of the intuating layrngeal mask airway as a rural option
  • Mulholland, Peter
    Foundations in ongoing education and training enhancing the role of the rural ambulance worker
  • Smith, Lorraine
    Is there a role for the pharmacist in counselling patients who take medications which have some influence on sexual function?