Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Rural Health
- Narrative analysis and less traditional forms of representation
- Gender and rural issues
- Ageing and notions of home and migration
Biography
Margaret is the Deputy Director at Monash Rural Health, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia, teaching first year graduate-entry medical students a social perspective on health. She also coordinates the Community Based Practice Program which aims to equip students with an interprofessional understanding of the social and community aspects of health through a community placement.
Margaret’s PhD used poetic representation to tell the stories of Gippsland women evacuated as children in WWII Britain who immigrated to Australia in the postwar period.
Margaret’s qualitative research interests focus on narrative analysis, gender issues, stories of illness, ageing and notions of home and migration and pedagogies of practice in medical education.
Margaret has also taught qualitative social research methods, gender, sexuality and identity and other sociological concepts in addition to which, she has been a Language and Learning Skills adviser.
Keywords
- Ageing
- Evacuation
- Home
- Migration
- Narrative Analysis
- Poetic Representation
Network
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Projects 2018 2020
Building capacity to teach climate change and environmental sustainability in health professions education
Brand, G., Schwerdtle, P., Barbour, L., Collins, J., Ilangakoon, C., Bonnamy, J., Simmons, M., Carr, B., Wotherspoon, R. & Bedi, G.
Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution
1/05/19 → 30/04/20
Project: Research
Implementation of faculty evaluation strategy: Impact and outcomes of Monash University health science and health profession courses using Contribution Analysis
Palermo, C., Ilic, D., Diug, B., Morphet, J., Kumar, A., Lindley, J., Wee Ming, L., Brooks, I., Wright, C., Simmons, M., Powell, A., Bonham, M., Volders, E., Brock, T., White, P. & Sarkar, M.
Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution
1/04/18 → 31/03/19
Project: Research
Research Output 2006 2019
An exploration of the use of contribution analysis to evaluate health sciences and health professional courses
Choi, T., Sarkar, M., Ilic, D., Diug, B., Morphet, J., Brooks, I., Kumar, A., Lindley, J., Wright, C., Simmons, M., Powell, A., Bonham, M., Volders, E., Brock, T., White, P., Wee Ming, L. & Palermo, C. E., 2019, p. 108-108. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Other › peer-review
Open Access
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Beyond the 2009 Gippsland bushfires: Acknowledgement and young rural adults' recovery
Forbes, R. J., Simmons, M. & Willems, J., Jan 2018, In : The Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 33, 1, p. 32-37 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
File
Emotional freedom techniques (EFT) as a practice for supporting chronic disease healthcare: a practitioners’ perspective
Kalla, M., Simmons, M., Robinson, A. & Stapleton, P., 2018, In : Disability and Rehabilitation. 40, 14, p. 1654-1662 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Creative piece as a tool of assessment
Simmons, M., 2016, Melbourne, Australia: Monash University. 1 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
Stories of illness: Theirs, mine and ours
Simmons, M., Apr 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Other
Open Access