Rebecca Jones
Lecturer
Telephone: +61 3 5128 1000
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: Rebecca.Jones@monash.edu
Rebecca Jones is interested in the interaction of human health and the environment over time. Her research interests are in environmental history, ecological approaches to health, health history and social aspects of health. Her book Green Harvest: a history of Australian Organic Farming and Gardeningis to be published by CSIRO Publishing in September 2010.
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:
• Refereed Books
- Rebecca Jones (2010). Green Harvest A History of Organic Farming and Gardening in Australia, CSIRO Publishing.
Journal Articles:
• Environmental History
- Rebecca Jones (2008) Soil: A Real and Imagined Environment for Australian Organic Farmers and Gardeners in the 1940s, Environment and History, 14 (2): 205-216.
- Rebecca Jones & Janice Chesters (2006) Muck Bugs and Decay: the preoccupations of early Australian organic gardening, Australian Studies in Garden History, 2: 63-79.
- Rebecca Jones (2004) Blended Voices: Crafting a Narrative from Oral History Interviews, Oral History Review, 31(1): 23-42.
- Rebecca Jones (1994) “An Ideal Holiday Experience: Guesthouses of the Gippsland Lakes”, Gippsland Heritage Journal, 17.
• Mental health
- Chesters, J., Fletcher, M., Jones, R., (2005) Mental Illness Recovery and Place, Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health 4(2) (online).
- Jones, R., Chesters, J. & Fletcher, M. (2003) Make Yourself at Home: People Living with Psychiatric Disability in Public Housing, International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 7: 67-79.
• Health research
- Rickard, C.M., McGrail, M. R., Jones, R., O’Meara, P., Robinson, A., Burley, M., Ray-Burruel, G., Supporting Academic Publication: Evaluation of a Writing Course Combined with Writers Support Group, Nurse Education Today, 29: 516-521.
- McGrail, M.R., Rickard, C.M., Jones, R. (2006) Publish or perish: a systematic review of interventions to increase academic publication rates, Higher Education Research and Development, 25(1):19-35.
- McGrail, Jones, R., Robinson, A., Rickard, C.M., Burley, M., Drysdale, M. (2005) The Planning of Rural Health Research: Rurality and Rural Population Issues, Rural and Remote Health, 5: 426 (online).
- Robinson, A. Burley, M., McGrail, M.R., Drysdale, M., Jones, R., Rickard, C.M. (2005) The Conducting and Reporting of Rural Health Research: Rurality and Rural Population Issues, Rural and Remote Health, 5: 427 (online).
