Rebecca Jones

Research Fellow 

1.   Health Ecology
2.   Environmental History
3.   Health History
4.   Social Aspects of Health
5.   Qualitative Methods

Rebecca has worked at the School of Rural Health as a Research Fellow and Lecturer since 2001.  She is unit advisor for ‘Health Ecology and Environmental Change’ a unit of the Master of Health Sciences and Master of Public Health.  She has also taught social, environmental and rural health to medical and health sciences students.  Rebecca Jones has recently submitted a PhD at the School of Rural Health.  Her doctoral thesis crosses the fields of health ecology and environmental history and explores the relationship between human health and the environment in Australian organic farming and gardening. Rebecca commenced doctoral studies supported by an APA scholarship, in June 2004. 

R Jones, 2008: 'Soil: A Real and Imagined Environment for Australian Organic Farmers and Gardeners in the 1940s', Environment and History, 14 (2): 205-216.

R Jones, & Chesters, J., 2006: 'Muck Bugs and Decay: the Preoccupations of Early Australian Organic Gardeners Australian Studies in Garden History', 2: 63-79.

R Jones, 2004: 'Blended Voices: Crafting a Narrative from Oral History Interviews', Oral History Review, 31(1): 23-42.

R Jones,, 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.

McGrail, M.R., Rickard, C.M., R Jones, '2006: Publish or perish: a systematic review of interventions to increase academic publication rates', Higher Education Research and Development, 25(1):19-35.

'From the Ground Up: An Environmental History of Australian Organic Farming and Gardening.' 
An exploration of health and environment in Australian organic gardening from the 1940s to the 2000s.

'Multi-site Testing of the Supportive Care Resource Kit: A model to improve supportive care provision for cancer patients.'
A project conducted through Gippsland Regional Integrated Cancer Services to enhance the provision of evidence-based supportive care in surgical wards and chemotherapy units in Gippsland.  The study involved training clinical staff, administering a tool to patients to assess their supportive care needs and interviewing patients and staff on the acceptability of the tool.