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Carole Burkett - PhD Candidate and Lecturer

Telephone: +61 3 5128 1021
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: carole.burkett@med.monash.edu.au

Carole has worked in a range of community based services her work has included coordinating the development and delivery of adult education programs within the social and community services area in aged, disability and youth/child. Planning and developing a range of residential and day placement options for people with intellectual disabilities relocating from institutions to community living, and management of residential accommodation services for people with complex support needs, including case management and behaviour intervention services.  Her most recent work in this area was to undertake a review of an organisation that provides a range of services for children and young people with disabilities, to determine opportunities for improvement and develop an operational plan.  In addition, Carole has extensive experience in coordinating and managing the provision of support services to off-campus learning students within the university system.

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD Candidate (Current)

  • BA (Hons)

  • BA (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Organisational Affiliations

Carole is a member of the Australasian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability (ASSID), and a member of the Board of Management for a community based not for profit disability organisation.

Teaching Commitments

Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Rural Health Practice (Double Degree)

  • SRH4001 - Rural Health Issues 2: Rural Health Policy and Practice

Graduate Diploma in Rural Health

  • CRH1002 - Rural Health Politics and Policies

Current Supervisor

  • Dr Eli Ristevski - School of Rural Health

  • Dr. Meredith Fletcher - Director, Centre for Gippsland Studies

  • Dr. Mark Oakley Brown - Professor of Regional Psychiatry, LRH

Research Interests

  • Disability

Details of Thesis

The aim of the study is to describe, interpret, and explain from the perspective of people living with an intellectual disability and their families how changes in service provision have influenced and shaped the lives of people with an intellectual disability, their families and communities in the Latrobe Valley since 1950