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Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health

Rebecca Jones

Doctoral Student

Telephone: +61 3 5128 1000
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: Rebecca.Jones@med.monash.edu.au

Rebecca Jones joined staff at School of Rural Health in 2001. Her particular areas of interest are ecological approaches to health, environmental health, health history and social aspects of health.

Academic Qualifications


  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons) The University of Melbourne
  • Master of Arts, Monash University
  • PhD, Monash University

Teaching Commitments

Rebecca is unit advisor for CRH1047: Health Ecology and Environmental Change" a unit of the Master of Health Sciences and Master of Public Health. In the past she has taught Environmental Medicine, a subject for third year medical students, Health, Knowledge and Society, a subject which examines the social and cultural aspects of health and has tutored undergraduate student rural placements in Gippsland.

Selected Publications
Journal Articles


  • Rickard, C., McGrail, M., Jones, R., O'Meara, P., Robinson, A., Burley, M., Ray-Barruel, G., (2009). "Supporting academic publication: Evaluation of a writing course combined with writers support group." Nursing Education Today 29(5): 516-521.
  • Jones, R. 2008 ‘Soil: A Real and Imagined Environment for Australian Organic Farmers and Gardeners in the 1940s’ Environment and History 14: 205-215.
  • Jones, R. and Chesters, J. 2006. ‘Muck, Bugs and Decay: the preoccupations of early Australian Organic Gardening’, Studies in Australian Garden History 2: 63-79.
  • Jones, R., Chesters, J. and Fletcher, M. 2003 ‘Make yourself at home: people living with psychiatric disability in supported housing’, International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation 7: 71-85
  • Jones, R. 2004 ‘Blended voices: crafting a narrative from oral history interviews’, Oral History Review 31(1): 23-42.

 

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