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Biography
Professor Ellie Fossey is Head of Occupational Therapy in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.
Professor Ellie Fossey completed her professional qualification in occupational therapy at Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy (now part of Oxford Brookes University) in England in 1980; graduated from City University, London with a Master degree in Health Psychology; and completed a Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Melbourne. She has worked as an occupational therapist in mental health services in London (UK), New Zealand and Australia, predominantly in community teams, supported housing and employment programs. Her academic career in occupational therapy began at the University of South Australia and includes undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research at Coventry University and La Trobe University, prior to joining Monash University in 2015.
She is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Occupational Therapy Mental Health Academics (ANZOTMHA) Steering Group; The Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand (TheMHS) Network; and the National Mental Health Achievement Awards Assessment panel.
Research interests
Ellie's research is predominantly directed towards understanding participation and disability, experiences of everyday living with mental health issues, and the ways in which people's participation in occupations of daily life may be impacted by ongoing health conditions. She is particularly interested in qualitative, collaborative and participatory approaches to undertaking research.
Her recent funded projects have focused on tertiary education experiences and support of students with disabilities, implementation and evaluation of recovery-oriented practices in mental health care, and evaluation of Prevention and Recovery Care services in Victoria; and typically involve interdisciplinary and interagency collaborations.
Supervision interests
Professor Ellie Fossey currently supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students. Recent completed supervised research projects include:
- Constructing recovery through occupational engagement: a participatory Photo-Voice study with people experiencing persistent mental health issues (PhD thesis)
- Moving clients forward: a grounded theory study of employment specialists’ views and practices (PhD thesis)
- Work participation after spinal cord injury in Bangladesh and the usefulness of the Worker Role Interview (PhD thesis)
- Capable and different: A grounded theory of studying at university for students with mental ill-health (PhD thesis)
- Perspectives of student disclosure of mental illness in postsecondary education (PhD thesis)
- Factors influencing participation in the workforce: Perspectives of people with upper limb loss (ClinScD thesis)
- Play matters: Evaluation of a schoolyard based group intervention (ClinScD thesis)
- Implementing recovery-oriented practices in primary mental health care (Masters thesis)
- Use of CAPE in Early in Life Mental Health Services to evaluate the occupational participation (Masters thesis)
- Implementing the Action over Inertia program: perspectives of adults experiencing persistent mental illness and occupational therapists (Masters thesis)
- Program evaluation of vocationally-focused workshops to assist consumers with mental illness in their journey to employment (Masters thesis)
- Time use and occupational engagement of adults with intellectual disability in supported living (Masters thesis)
- A consumer and staff collaboration initiative in a community mental health service (Masters thesis)
- Mixed methods investigation of weight stigma and occupational engagement (Honours thesis)
External positions
Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
2015 → …Honorary Research Associate, The University of Melbourne
2007 → …
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Projects 2013 2021
Early vocational intervention for people who have experienced trauma
Ross, P., Ponsford, J., Olver, J., Fossey, E., Barclay, L., Hilton, G., Downing, M., McKenzie, D., Nunn, A. & Mortimer, D.
1/06/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Allied health use of iSAP for case-based and theoretical learning: Effectiveness for student learning outcomes, staffing and resource efficiency
Chu, E., Hewitt, A., Murphy, L., Lalor, A., Lee, A., Bay, U., Barclay, L., O'Brien, L. & Fossey, E.
Monash University – Internal School Contribution
29/05/18 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
Building the evidence base for prevention and recovery care services
Meadows, G., Fossey, E., Pirkis, J., Farhall, J., Mihalopoulos, C. & Newton, R.
1/07/16 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
OTARF: Occupational Therapy Research Foundation Grant
Barclay, L., Fossey, E., Bourke-Taylor, H., Lalor, A., Farnworth, L., Haines, T. & Smith, A.
30/05/17 → 29/05/18
Project: Research
Research Output 1997 2019
REFOCUS-PULSAR recovery-oriented practice training in specialist mental health care: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial
Meadows, G., Brophy, L., Shawyer, F., Enticott, J. C., Fossey, E., Thornton, C. D., Weller, P. J., Wilson-Evered, E., Edan, V. & Slade, M., 1 Feb 2019, In : The Lancet Psychiatry. 6, 2, p. 103-114 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
A home but how to connect with others? A qualitative meta-synthesis of experiences of people with mental illness living in supported housing
Watson, J., Fossey, E. & Harvey, C., 1 Jan 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Health and Social Care in the Community. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Going Online Together: The Potential for Mental Health Workers to Integrate Recovery Oriented E-Mental Health Resources Into Their Practice
Williams, A., Fossey, E., Farhall, J., Foley, F. & Thomas, N., 1 Oct 2018, In : Psychiatry (New York). 81, p. 116-129 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
How effective is cognitive remediation in enhancing vocational outcomes for job seekers with severe mental illness in Australia?
Contreras, N. A., Castle, D. J., Crosse, C., Morgain, D., Fossey, E., Harvey, C. & Rossell, S. L., Apr 2018, In : Australian Psychologist. 53, 2, p. 144-150 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Managing reading and related literacy difficulties: University students’ perspectives
Serry, T., Oates, J., Ennals, P., Venville, A., Williams, A., Fossey, E. & Steel, G., 2018, In : Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties. 23, 1, p. 5-30 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review