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Name
Dr Leonie Cox
Position(s)
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School - Nursing
IHBI Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Nursing - CDA
Discipline *
Anthropology, Nursing
Phone
+61 7 3138 3877
Email
Location
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Identifiers and profiles
Twitter
Qualifications

PhD (Social Anthropology) (University of Sydney), Graduate Certificate Education [Higher Education] (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1) Social Anthropology (University of Sydney), MENTAL HEALTH NURSE REGISTERED (Other)

Professional memberships
and associations
Keywords

Cultural Safety, Mental health, Ethnography, Existential Psychiatry, Health And History, Indigenous Health And Well-Being, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges in Higher Education, Phenomenology, Social, Political & Cultural Health Determinants, Suicide

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

Biography

Leonie is a social anthropologist with extensive experience in teaching,  research and supervision on cross cultural issues and their impact on health and health service provision. Leonie is also a mental health nurse with over two decades clinical experience in acute psychiatry and in the alcohol and other drugs field. In terms of teaching Leonie has a special interest in the philosophy and practice of cultural safety as it applies to nursing in the Australian context. She coordinates, designs and  teaches a major unit focusing on cultural safety in the Bachelor of Nursing and teaches in this area at undergraduate and post-graduate level across the Faculty of Health and founded a faculty wide curriculum group in this area.

Research interests and approaches Leonie’s   phenomenological  ethnography explores:

  •     historical issues and health
  •     a critique of individualism
  •     the medicalisation and criminalisation of difference and poverty
  •     suicide
  •     studies of knowledge, power, class and racisms
  •     social, political and cultural determinants of health
  •     the interface between individuals, communities and government institutions
  •     community driven research and community research priorities
  •     constructivist pedagogy
  •     Indigenous retention and participation in higher education
This information has been contributed by Dr Leonie Cox.

Teaching

Teaching and learning areas

  • health, culture and diversity
  • cultural safety encompassing power, racisms, corporate and professional self-reflection
  • Indigenous health and social and emotional well-being
  • psychiatry and mental health nursing
  • sociology/anthropology and nursing

Current Coordination

Current teaching and curriculum design School of Nursing and Faculty of Health

  • Lectures, online modules and tutorials NSB102 Professional Practice and Cultural Safety
  • Lectures, online modules and tutorials NSB204 Mental Health Self and Others on cultural safety, suicide, personality disorder, self-harm, Indigenous social and emotional well-being, psychosis, mental health assessment
  •  Tutorials  NSB202 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Well-Being
  • Lectures Masters of Psychology PYN030/PYN603: cultural safety and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional well being: Australian history and society, social and emotional well-being and mental health
  • Workshop lecture series Clinical Sciences, Bachelor of Laboratory Science LQB883: Cultural safety and intercultural communication
  • Lecture LQB184  Biomedical Skills 1  cultural safety
  • Lecture/workshop Masters of Public Health PUN632 : Cultural safety in health management
  • Lecture Bachelor of Social Work SWH202: Cultural safety and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional well being
  • Lecture MA in Clinical Psychology and the MA in Education and Developmental Psychology PYN030/PYN603 -cultural safety and Indigenous Social and Emotional Well-being
  • Creative Industries: Indigenous Knowledges Minor:OUB100 Yatdjuligin – Cultural Safety in Indigenous Australian context. Whiteness, white privilege. cultural safety.
This information has been contributed by Dr Leonie Cox.

Experience

QUT Research Projects

  • 2017 ongoing Introducing Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students to concepts relevant to intercultural issues in pathology practice
  • 2013 ongoing Cultural Safety in Consumer and Carer led mental health research
  • 2012-ongoing: ‘Learning, teaching and practising social equity’, to the Innovation & Development Program, 2012, Competitive Grant
  • 2011-ongoing: Recruitment and retention of Indigenous nursing students at QUT (Funded by OCNO)
  • 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 (funded T and L Project)
  • 2007-ongoing: consultant on an Indigenous social and emotional well-being project with the Mater CYMHS “Bringing up children Gran’s Way” (AIATSIS Funding)
  • 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
2019
Details
In 2015 I was first invited to present cultural safety workshops to nursing staff groups at the RBWH. In 2015 I was invited to present to the Metro-North Mental Health Services staff team. In 2018 I was invited to present workshops to the Clinical Education Team and on March 1st 2019 I delivered the first of 3 cultural safety workshops to the RBWH Cancer Care Transition Program. The remaining two are scheduled for April and September.
Type
Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
Reference year
2018
Details
Invited to present and presented 3 mandatory workshops to approximately 150 NMBA state board members on cultural safety at their annual national conference, June 2018.
Type
Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
Reference year
2017
Details
Workshop co-faclitator on national roadshow for Nursing and Midwifery National Health Curriculum Framework
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2016
Details
Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award for curriculum innovation and development
Type
Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
Reference year
2016
Details
Invited to national roundtables and appointed to select national working group to produce the Nursing and Midwifery National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2015
Details
Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award for innovation of cultural safety in biomedical sciences
Type
Advisor/Consultant for Industry
Reference year
2015
Details
Invited to attend national symposium HAVING THE HARD CONVERSATIONS Good practice in working with resistance to Indigenous health and cultural safety
Type
Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
Reference year
2013
Details
Visiting Research Fellow July-December 2013 working with mental health consumers' advisory group [SUGAR] and teaching cultural safety
Type
Advisor/Consultant for Industry
Reference year
2011
Details
Invited to national meeting on teaching mental health nursing in undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing curricula
Type
Advisor/Consultant for Industry
Reference year
2010
Details
Invited to a National Teaching Mental Health Workshop in Melbourne June 2010

Supervision

Current supervisions

  • Reciprocity: Supporting Aboriginal Peoples' and Torres Strait Islanders' Aspirations of Sovereignty in Australia Nursing Undergraduate Curriculum
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Dr Odette Best, Professor Mark Brough
  • Talk About Food Insecurity: The social construction of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander food insecurity in southern Brisbane
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Danielle Gallegos
  • Reparative and Therapeutic Functions of Musical Narratives in Therapy with Adolescents from Refugee Backgrounds
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Robert Schweitzer
  • What is the workplace experience of LGBTIQ paramedics in Australian Ambulance Service?
    Masters by Research, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Vivienne Tippett
  • A remote mission, a box of letters: a conduit to new knowledge
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Carol Windsor

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)