Personal details
- 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
- leonie.cox@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- 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 and she coordinates, designs and teaches a major unit focusing on 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 racism
- 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
- 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
- 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 LQB833: Cultural safety and intercultural communication
- 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
This information has been contributed by Dr Leonie Cox.
Experience
QUT Research Projects
- 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
- Cox L, Simpson A, (2015) Cultural safety, diversity and the servicer user and carer movement in mental health research, Nursing Inquiry p306-316
- Cox L, Taua C, (2017) Understanding and applying cultural safety: philosophy and practice of a social determinants approach, Potter and Perry's fundamentals of nursing - Australian Version, 5th Edition p260-287
- Cox L, (2016) Social change and social justice: cultural safety as a vehicle for nurse activism, Proceedings of the 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing and Health Care International Conference p1-11
- Cox L, (2015) Cultural safety and diversity: Refocusing our energies in mental health nursing practice, education and research (Conference Abstract), International Journal of Mental Health Nursing p9-10
- Cox L, Rodgers T, Goulter N, (2014) Exploring changing culture and building capacity in research with consumers, carers and consumer companions (Conference abstract), International Journal of Mental Health Nursing p7-8
- Simpson A, Jones J, Barlow S, Cox L, (2014) Adding SUGAR: Service user and carer collaboration in mental health nursing research, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services p22-30
- Cox L, Drummond AJ, (2013) Sociological understanding of mental health and Indigenous social and emotional well-being, Introducing mental health nursing: A service user-oriented approach [2nd edition] p183-212
- Bond C, Brough MK, Cox L, (2014) Blood in our hearts or blood on our hands? The viscosity, vitality and validity of Aboriginal 'blood talk', International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies p1-14
- Bird J, Brough MK, Cox L, (2016) Transnationalism and the Karen wrist-tying ceremony: An ethnographic account of Karen settlement practice in Brisbane, The Australian Journal of Anthropology p104-120
- Lenette C, Cox L, Brough MK, (2015) Digital storytelling as a social work tool: Learning from ethnographic research with women from refugee backgrounds, The British Journal of Social Work p988-1005
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
- What is the workplace experience of LGBTIQ paramedics in Australian Ambulance Service?
Masters by Research, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Vivienne Tippett
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- "Why are you crying? You got what you wanted!" Psychosocial experiences of sex reassignment surgery (2016)
- "Talking with lips" : Settlement, transnationalism and identity of Karen people from Burma living in Brisbane, Australia (2013)
- Chaotic Soul-Messy Heart: The Phenomenon of Experiencing Auditory Hallucinations (2012)
- Narratives of complexity: an ethnographic exploration of resilience and wellbeing among single refugee women in Brisbane (2011)
- "When you're black, they look at you harder" : narrating aboriginality within public health (2007)
- Food to go round': Negotiating Healthy Eating for Management and Prevention of type 2 Diabetes among some Urban Indigenous Australians (2006)