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Dr Narelle Warren

Biography

Since completing her BA (Hons)/BSc, majoring in Sociology and Psychology, at the ANU in 1997, Narelle has worked in a range of research positions and contexts, including assisted reproduction, decision-making regarding family formation, and healthy eating and physical activity.

She was recently awarded her PhD through the University of Melbourne exploring the health, health-management and health-seeking of midlife women in an isolated Victorian community.

Since joining Professor Manderson’s team in 2002, Narelle has worked as research assistant on the ‘Disrupting the Idea of Woman’ project, as research fellow for the ADAPT study exploring the social aspects of amputation in urban and rural Victoria, and as research fellow on a clinical trial into the effects of using complementary (MPM) therapy for patients undergoing total knee replacement.

  

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Professional Activities

Narelle is a current member of:

  • The Society for Applied Anthropology,
  • The International Society for Quality of Life Studies,
  • The Australian Sociological Association and
  • The Australian Breastfeeding Association.
  • She is also on the board of management for an Australia-wide amputee support group, Limbs 4 Life, providing information and research support based on the ADAPT study.

Research Interests

  • Qualitative Research
  • Rural Health
  • Chronic Disease
  • Gender and Health
  • Ageing and Health
  • Research Ethics

Awards, grants and prizes

Warren N (November 2007) DEST Endeavour Post Doctoral Research Award

Warren N (October 2007) National Heart Foundation of Australia Postgraduate Travel Grant, to attend the 8th International Society for Quality of Life Studies Conference, San Diego, USA

Warren N (May 2006) Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Travel Grant, to attend the 7th International Society for Quality of Life Studies Conference, Grahamstown, South Africa

Bourne K, Oke N, & Warren N (September 2005) ‘”Wanted: woman who cares”: advertising for oocyte donors.’ Prize for best psychosocial research paper, Fertility Society of Australia Annual Meeting, Christchurch, New Zealand

Teaching

Narelle has been involved in teaching workshops on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods (South Africa and Australia) and on Gender and Health (Malaysia).

She is also involved in the supervision of the following postgraduate research projects:

  • Chhordaphea Chhea. Tuberculosis: Health seeking behaviour of patients and families in Cambodia. PhD Candidate
  • Simonetta Cengarle. Stem-cell banking in Thailand. PhD Candidate
  • Sophie Read-Hamilton. Evaluation of humanitarian response to sexual violence in situations of armed conflict. PhD Candidate
  • Jordan Schaan. Are dogs meeting modern psychological needs, and is there a requirement for increased community services and increased public inclusion of dogs to adequately meet these needs? PhD Candidate
  • Sophie Clark. Employed motherhood: beyond the conflict and crisis model. Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychology

Collaborations

Through her work with Professor Manderson, Narelle is involved in a multi-site research project, collaborating with Limbs 4 Life and amputee rehabilitation professionals at Grace McKellar Centre (Barwon Health) and Caulfield Hospital (the Alfred/Bayside Health); she has previously collaborated with these groups before, along with Grampians Health and Melbourne Health. She is also involved in developing an international research project on rural health under the leadership of A/Prof Liz Cartwright from Idaho State University.

Publications

Warren N, Manderson L & Misajon R (2009). More than SF-36? Using narratives to elaborate health and well-being data in recent lower-limb amputees. In Moller V & Huschka D (Eds). Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge: Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research. New York: Springer. Pp: 59-80.

Manderson L & Warren N (2009) Infectious gynaecological conditions. In World Health Organization (Ed). Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health: a global review of the literature. Geneva: World Health Organization & United Nations Population Fund, pp. 92-100.

Manderson L & Warren N (2009) Malignant conditions. In World Health Organization (Ed). Mental health aspects of women’s reproductive health: a global review of the literature. Geneva: World Health Organization & United Nations Population Fund, pp. 100-104.

Markovic M, Manderson L & Warren N. (2008). Pragmatic narratives of hysterectomy among Australian women. Sex Roles, 58(7-8): 467-476

Markovic M, Manderson L & Warren N (2008) Endurance and contest: women’s narratives of endometriosis. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 12(3): 349-367

Manderson L, Warren N & Markovic M. (2008). Circuit-breaking: Pathways of treatment-seeking for women with endometriosis in Australia. Qualitative Health Research, 18(4): 522-534.

Warren N & Manderson L (2008). Constructing hope: Dis/continuity and the narrative construction of recovery in the rehabilitation unit. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 37(2): 180-201.

Warren N (2007). A day in the life… Medical Sociology Online, 2(2): 95-96

Warren N, Manderson L & Disler P (2007) Amputation in the case of cancer: a case study. Amplified, 9 (Spring): 16-17

Warren N, Markovic M & Manderson L (2006) Gynecological and reproductive health and advocacy among rural women in Australia. Women & Health, 43(4): 27-47

Warren N & Manderson L (2006) Peer support for amputees. Amplified, 4 (June):16-17

Manderson L, Disler P, Markovic M & Warren N (2006) ADAPT: Social aspects of amputation in urban and rural Victoria. Amplified, 3 (March): 18-20

Andajani-Sutjahjo S, Ball K, Warren N, Inglis V & Crawford D. (2004) Personal, social and environmental barriers to weight maintenance among young women: A community survey. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 1:1-15

Ball K, Crawford D & Warren N. (2004) ‘How feasible is healthy eating and physical activity for young women?’  Public Health Nutrition, 7(3): 433-441

Warren N & Blood J. (2003) ‘Who donates? Why donate? An exploration of the characteristics and motivations of known egg donors: the Victoria, Australia experience.’ Journal of Fertility Counselling, 10(3): 20-24