Research
School of Health Sciences
Academics within the School of Health Sciences have specific research interests in the following areas:
Nursing
- Aged care
- Change of identity and role in women who become mothers later in life
- Dementia and mental health problems in old age
- Mental health
- Palliative Care
- Qualitative research into the new prescribing powers that nurses have: changes in identity and feelings
- Quality of residential care
- Teaching and learning approaches in undergraduate nursing programs
Psychology
- Acoustic forensics
- Community mental health
- Ecopsychology
- Gambling
- Health Psychology, including mindfulness and health
- Human - animal relationships
- Men’s health
- Multicultural and Indigenous psychology
- Positive psychology
- Qualitative research methodology
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Virtual communities
- Women's health
Social Work
- Child and family welfare
- Clinical / professional issues
- Community development
- Community recovery / effects of disaster
- Juvenile justice
- Loss and grief
- Mental health
- Social networks
- Social work practice
For more information contact:
School of Health Sciences Research Champion
Dr Peter Forster
Phone: 08 8946 6818
Email: peter.forster@cdu.edu.au
