Ms. Tamasin Ramsay (PhD candidate)

Biography

While enjoying a career as an actor, Tamasin decided to spend 6 months at the Royal Melbourne Hospital doing something completely different. During this time working as a medical orderly she discovered a deep interest in the health sciences. After being employed as a paramedic with the Metropolitan Ambulance Service, and receiving a number of commendations, Tamasin moved into academia, enrolling in a Masters in Social Health (Medical Anthropology) at the University of Melbourne before deciding to transfer across to Monash University to undertake a PhD with Professor Lenore Manderson. BHSc. (Paramedic) Victoria University, G.Dip.Soc.Hlth (Medical Anthropology) University of Melbourne.

Research Interests

Interesting in posstraumatic growth, existentialism, the philosophy of spirituality, religion, suffering and the anthropology of disaster. Currently undertaking research to determine the way in which members of a spiritual community move through the inner suffering experienced as a result of environmental (natural or intentional) disaster.

Fieldwork sites:
Manhattan, USA and Orissa, India.

Publications

Journal Articles

RAMSAY, Tamasin. 2005. The unresearched factor in disaster management: Spiritual preparedness. International Journal of the Humanities, Melbourne: Common Ground. 2,2: 1101-1110.

Associate Editor

International Journal of the Humanities, Melbourne: Common Ground.

Conference Presentations

RAMSAY, Tamasin. A Psycho-spiritual Program of Response to Disaster 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine. Tokyo, November, 2006.

RAMSAY, Tamasin. The Missing Piece: Spiritual Preparedness. 2nd International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Prato, Italy, August, 2004.