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Brutal neglect: Australian rural women's access to health services
qualifications: PhD
position: Professor
Australia
Margaret Alston is Professor of Social Work and Human services and Director of the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. Her research interests revolve around rural social issues and issues of significance to rural women
qualifications: PhD
position: Researcher
Australia
I am a social worker, researcher and academic working in rural health and welfare service provision, particularly with marginalised groups. I take a human rights approach to service access and provision. My field is research on practice.
qualifications: PhD
position: Senior Lecturer in Midwidery and Nursing
Australia
Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga in rural Australia). Key research interests: Midwifery, women's health, maternity services, traditional midwifery in Africa, qualitative research methods, violence against women, sexual assault. I work with women who have survived torture and traditional midwives in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Kenya in a voluntary capacity for 4 - 6 weeks per annum.
qualifications: PhD
position: Lecturer
Janki Shankar PhD Research interests-Mental Health and Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Support Needs of rural, remote, indigenous and CALD consumers ( and Carers) of mental health and disability services, Welfare Reform Policy.
qualifications: PhD
position: Lecturer
Australia
Interested in all issues relating to health and migration, ethnicity, acculturation, integration, multiculturalism, mental health, carers. Involved currently in a project entitled Personal Attitudes regarding Gene Modification in Humans - A Four Country Research Project.
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