Bill Genat – Research And Teaching Profile

Bill Genat – Research and Teaching profile

Personal Information

Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal Health Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit Room 418, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010

Tel: +61 3 8344 9375 Fax: + 61 3 8344 0824 Email: [email protected]

Research Interests

Bill's research interests include interpretive and ethnographic methods, participatory processes and action research methods. He is particularly interested in decolonising methodologies, research methods that engage with local practices and ways of working, reveal situated knowledges (particularly Indigenous knowledges), and that support self-determination and positive social change. Current areas of research include capacity building and curriculum development in Indigenous public health, pedagogy and Indigenous Health, Aboriginal health workers, Indigenous community development and primary health care.

Two of Bill's current research projects are:

(i) The Public Health Education and Research Program (PHERP): 'Capacity Development in Indigenous Australian Public Health', which is based on a 2003 audit of all PHERP Master of Public Health programs nationally, and a subsequent national workshop that formulated recommendations about development and implementation of innovative curriculum in Indigenous public health. Within the current project, on the basis of a national consultation, Bill developed the National Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Framework which guides the integration of Indigenous content into the national Master of Public Health curriculum.

(ii) Student uptake of an on-line multimedia roleplay focused on Aboriginal health used for postgraduate training in public health, and with potential use as a professional development package in Indigenous public health. The on-line multimedia roleplay is set at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, Healesville, Victoria in 1862. Student roles are resourced with actual archival records from historical newspapers, letters and public inquiry documents from the period. On the basis of their historical character informed by actual on-line archives, the students interact in their character to address various health problems that actually arose historically at the station.

Supervision

. Aboriginal health

Bill Genat 1 . Qualitative research . Community health . Primary health care

Recent Supervision Projects:

. 'From Crisis Response to Community Health: Improving the Wellbeing of the Victorian Aboriginal Community' . 'Koori Community Development: Concepts and Practice' . 'Shifting to the Gaze of the Other—Cultural Safety and Curricula in Universities'

Master of Social Health

. 'How Are Challenges to Practice Experienced by a White Female Health professional in an Indigenous Setting' . 'Cultural Sensitivity in Health Development' . 'Exposure to Nature and the Wellbeing of Aged Care Residents' . 'Key Components of Recovery Programs for Urban Melbourne Koorie Men' . 'Marketing the Nurse: Representations of Nursing in Recruitment Literature, 1950– 2000'

Advanced Medical Science

. 'Does the Use of Fear Enhance or Diminish a Public Anti-Smoking Campaign?' . 'Health Needs of Sex-Trafficked Women: Australia's Response'

Teaching

. Joint Co-ordinator: Master of Social Health (Aboriginal Health) program . Subject Co-ordinator: . Policy Processes in Aboriginal Health . Critical Debates in Aboriginal Health

Recent Publications

Genat, W. 2008, National Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Framework, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

Genat, B., Naidu, S. & Fong, P. (forthcoming), 'Shifting Perspectives about Aboriginal Health and History: Using digital archives in an online role play'.

Genat, B. & Cripps, K. (forthcoming), 'The Social Determinants of Indigenous Health: Decolonising practice vs stolen land, stolen children, stolen wages', in H. Keleher & C. MacDougall (eds), Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach [2nd edn], Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.

Bill Genat 2 Genat, B. 2007, Briefing Paper: A National Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Framework, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

Genat, B. 2007, 'Core Competencies and National Curriculum Development in Indigenous Public Health', In Touch, Public Health Association of Australia Newsletter, August.

Genat, W. 2006, Aboriginal Healthworkers: Primary Health Care at the Margins, University of Western Australia Press, Perth.

Shain, K, Genat, W. & Wensing, E. 2006, 'Agreement-Making in the Local Context: Case Studies from Regional Australia', in M. Langton, O. Mazel, L. Palmer, K. Shain & M. Tehan (eds), Settling with Indigenous People: Case Studies in Agreement Making from Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Federation Press, Sydney.

Anderson, I., Brabham, W., Genat, W. et al. 2004, National Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Audit & Workshop Project Report, Discussion Paper No. 11, VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, October.

Genat, W. 2004, 'Indigenous Content in Master of Public Health Programs', Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, 2, p. 19.

Stringer, E. & Genat, W. 2004, Action Research in Health, Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle Creek, NJ.

Conference and Seminar Presentations

May 2008 Centre for Health and Society Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, presentation on 'Capacity Building in Indigenous Public Health: Recent Developments' November Public Health Seminar Series, La Trobe University, presentation on 'Co- 2007 constructing Meanings of Aboriginal Health Worker Practice Using Action Research' September ANAPHI Teaching and Learning Forum, Alice Springs, presentartion on 'The 2007 Indigenous Public Health Social Science Stream at the University of Melbourne' September Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia, Alice Springs, co- 2007 presentation with Paul Stewart on 'Is it Possible to Disrupt Whiteness Using an Indigenous Public Health Teaching Program? July 2007 Mettle Forum and Showcase, The University of Melbourne, presentation on 'Koori Health Past to Present: An On-line Interactive Multimedia Roleplay'; and poster on 'Back to the Future: Using Historical Archives in an On-line Aboriginal Health Roleplay' May 2007 Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (International Center for Qualitative Inquiry: University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana), Champaign/Urbana, IL, USA, co-presentation with Paul Stewart on 'Settler Colonialism, the History Wars and On-line Primary Sources: Deconstructing Administrative Discourse Concerning the "Natives"'

Bill Genat 3 December The Sociological Association of Australia (TASA) Annual Conference, University of 2006 Western Australia, presentation on ‘Experiencing Recycled Paternalism: On-line Reflexive Engagement with Administrative Discourses Concerning the "Natives"' November Australian Network of Public Health Academic Institutions (ANAPHI) Teaching and 2006 Learning Conference, The University of Melbourne, presentation on 'On-line Action Learning in Indigenous Public Health' September Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) Annual Conference, Darling Harbour, 2006 Sydney, presentation on 'Addressing History as a Determinant of Indigenous Australian's Health' October Centre for Health and Society Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, 2005 presentation on 'Indigenous Public Health: Towards a Decolonising Practice Framework' October Australian Indigenous Studies Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, 2005 presentation on 'Building a Culturally Safe Learning Community: Border Pedagogy with Small Groups' September Health Department of Western Australia, co-presentation with J. Jessen & L. 2005 Thorpe on 'Capacity Building in Indigenous Public Health' September Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) Annual Conference, Perth, Western 2005 Australia, co- presentation with J. Jessen & L. Thorpe on 'Innovations in Indigenous Public Health Curriculum' May 2005 1st International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, USA, presentation on 'Constructing Knowledge of Indigenous Health Worker Practice' December The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Annual Conference, Beechworth, 2004 presentation on 'Accounts of Turning-Point Moments' October Centre for Health and Society Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, 2004 presentation on 'From Community Development to Action Research' July 2004 International Action Learning Action Research Process Management Association (ALARPM), National Action Research Conference, Darwin, presentation on 'Epiphanies in Action: Illuminating the Experience of Aboriginal Health Workers' June 2004 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce Working Group (ATSIWWG), Interdisciplinary Workshop on Indigenous Curricula Development for Health Courses , Melbourne, presentation on 'Indigenous Public Health Curricula: National Audit, Workshop & Outcomes' October Centre for Health and Society Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, 2003 presentation on 'Dilemmas in Community Development'

Last updated October 2008

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