Ms Rebecca Jones - Doctoral Student

Rebecca Jones is currently undertaking a PhD at the School of Rural Health.  Her doctoral thesis crosses the fields of health ecology and environmental history and will examine the organic movement in Australia focusing on the values and practices of organic producers (farmers and gardeners) and the relationship between human health and the environment through food production. The thesis will also explore the way the Australian environment has shaped the development of the organic movement in Australia.  Rebecca commenced doctoral studies supported by an APA scholarship, in June 2004.  Her PhD is supervised by Dr Janice Chesters.

Prior to commencing a PhD, Rebecca worked as a Research Fellow with the School of Rural Health from August 2001 until June 2004. Her particular areas of interest are ecological approaches to health, environmental history and social aspects of health. In the last couple of years she has undertaken research and evaluation in the areas of mental health, health service and education evaluation and drug use and has taught Health, Knowledge and Society, a component of the first year MBBS which examines social and cultural aspects of health.  Before joining the School of Rural Health, Rebecca undertook environmental history, oral history and social research for the Victorian, Commonwealth and Local governments, Museum Victoria and community organizations.

Academic Qualifications

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

Teaching Commitments

Her current teaching involvement is as co-convener of Environmental Medicine a subject for third year medical students, a subject that examines the health issues associated with human accelerated environmental change; unit advisor for a Graduate Diploma/Master of Rural Health elective subject, examining drug and alcohol issues in rural communities; and tutor for second year medical students on their two week rural placement.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• 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.