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Dr Leonie Cox

Faculty of Health,
School - Nursing

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Name
Dr Leonie Cox
Position(s)
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School - Nursing
Discipline *
Anthropology, Nursing
Phone
+61 7 3138 3877
Email
Location
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Qualifications

PhD (University of Sydney), Graduate Certificate Education [Higher Education] (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1) (University of Sydney)

Professional memberships
and associations
Keywords

Cultural Safety, Diversity Teaching, Ethnography, Existential Psychiatry, Health And History, Indigenous Health And Well-Being, Indigenous Higher Education, Phenomenology, Social, Political & Cultural Health Determinants, Suicide

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

Background

Leonie was awarded First Class Honours in 1993 and a PhD in 2001 both from the University of Sydney in social anthropology.

These studies explored barriers to achieving equity in Australia particularly social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Themes that underpin her honours and doctoral studies include

  • a critique of individualism
  • the medicalisation and criminalisation of difference and poverty
  • studies of knowledge, power, class and race relations.

These varied experiences contributed to her research interests in the social, political and cultural determinants of health and in the interface between communities and government institutions.

In terms of any future research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, she is committed to community driven research and community research priorities.

Leonie’s original profession was in mental health and she registered as a nurse in 1980.

Over two decades working in psychiatry and in the alcohol and other drugs field in Queensland and NSW included clinical roles in acute in-patient settings, in community crisis intervention and work on several research projects. She went on to practice as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and counsellor.

Leonie coordinates, teaches and tutors in mental health and Indigenous and multicultural perspectives.

Research interests

Her educational research focuses on constructivist approaches and issues impacting on Indigenous retention and participation in higher education.

Her anthropological background provides a strong grounding in multicultural issues in both education and health.

 

This information has been contributed by Dr Leonie Cox.

Teaching

Teaching and learning areas

  • health, culture and diversity
  • cultural safety
  • Indigenous health and social and emotional well-being
  • mental health nursing
  • sociology/anthropology and nursing.

Current Coordination

Research supervision

  • 2010: Principal Supervisor, Belinda Chaplin’s Honours Project: Psychosocial impacts of Sexual Reassignment Surgery on the daily lives and social functioning of the post-operative transgender person.
  • 2009: Principal Supervisor, Rachel Sambrano’s Honours Project: ‘Exploring Indigenous Peoples’ Experience of Seclusion’.
  • Principal Supervisor, Asako Tomsett’s Honours Project: ‘Exploring job enjoyment for registered nurses in Japan and Australia: a phenomenological study’
  • 2008 – present: Co-supervise with Dr Anthony Welch, Ms Suryani ‘s RHD project ‘The phenomenon of auditory hallucinations as described by Indonesian people living with schizophrenia’:
  • 2007 – present: Co-supervise with Dr Mark Brough Caroline Lenette’s RHD  with the School of Humanities and Human Services entitled ‘Resilience and wellbeing in the lived experiences of refugee women in Brisbane.
  • 2007: Principal Supervisor for two RHD completions (Dr Wendy Foley: Healthy eating and managing Type 2 diabetes in an urban Indigenous community; Dr Chelsea Bond: A Matter of Life or Death? Narrating Urban Aboriginal Identity within Public Health).
  • Principal Supervisor for Independent Study NSB421 by Rachel Sambrano-Indigenous Housing
This information has been contributed by Dr Leonie Cox.

Experience

QUT Research Projects

  • 2009 – 2011: Promoting resilience and effective workplace functioning in international students enrolled in health courses, ALTC Competitive Grant
  • 2009: From theory to practice: Cultural Safety (T and L Project)
  • Collaboration with government, industry and community: Research and Learning/Teaching research
  • 2007-ongoing: consultant on an Indigenous social and emotional well-being project with the Mater CYMHS “Bringing up children Gran’s Way”
  • 2010: member of a Queensland Health Community of Practice (COP) on cultural issues in nurse education and a related Queensland Health’s Steering Committee Implementing the Cross Cultural Learning and Development Strategy.
  • work with the Rotary Indigenous Mental Heath Forum Planning Committee and a resulting in a community forum with the Inala Elders on mental health issues which is being carried forward by an Indigenous colleague.
This information has been contributed by Dr Leonie Cox.

Publications


For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Awards

Awards and recognition

Type
Advisor/Consultant for Industry
Reference year
2010
Details
Invited to a National Teaching Mental Health Workshop in Melbourne June 2010
Type
Advisor/Consultant for Industry
Reference year
2009
Details
Consultant to Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Services: Indigenous Program for the Indigenous driven project Bringing Up Children Gran's Way. The project produced a community resource for Elders, has a publication under review and is seeking further funding to extend the project. I have consulted for the project from 2006 to the present time 2010.
Type
Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
Reference year
2009
Details
Appointed to the Queensland Health Multicultural Services Steering Committee for Implementing the Cross Cultural Learning and Development Strategy
Type
International Collaboration
Reference year
2009
Details
Invited to contribute a book chapter about ‘Aboriginal religion and nursing’ by Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, FAAN Professor of Ethics, Spirituality, and Faith Integration Senior Fellow, Institute for Faith Integration Azusa Pacific University WC Bldg 1, Rm 219 in Suite 209 (Honors) "The Surge" 901 E. Alosta (Rte. 66) P.O. Box 7000 Azusa, California 91702-7000. After discussion with Indigenous colleagues it was decided that my role would be to liaise with local Indigenous academics and the publishers. To this end I facilitated a connection between Nereda White and Joan Hendricks from ACU and Professor Fowler and the latter contacts me if needed to pursue progress.
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2008
Details
Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award
Type
Reviewer for an Academic Journal
Reference year
2006
Details
2009: Australian Health Review, Manuscript Draft, Manuscript Number: AHR824 2008: Australian Health Review ‘Telephone case management reduces distress and psychiatric hospitalisation’ 2008: Australian Health Review ‘Barriers to comorbidity service delivery: the complexities of dual diagnosis and the need to agree on terminology and conceptual frameworks’ 2008: Health and History ‘Too Much Sorry Business: Revisiting Indigenous Health and History: Life Expectancy in Traditional Aboriginal Society with a Particular Focus on the East Coast of Australia’ 2007:Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Special Issue Oodgeroo Unit, QUT, ‘Big worry: Implications of Anxiety in Indigenous Youth’. 2007: For Australian Health Review ‘A piece of the puzzle-the role of ethnic health staff in hospitals’ 2006: For Social Change Research “Personal and social transition and the concept of enforced liminality for Indigenous Australians with adult-acquired physical disability”