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Research Staff
Directors
Jane Koziol-McLainLynne Giddings
Researchers
Claire Gear, Research Officer
Amanda Young-Hauser, Post-Doctorate Research Fellow
Faculty staff
Brenda Costa-ScorseHelen Curreen
Dene Hancock
Patria Hume
Maria Rameka
Jan Wilson
Research Associates
Jacquelyn CampbellJefferey Coben
Dr Janet Fanslow
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, FAAN, RN, PhD
Associate Dean for faculty affiars / Professor
John Hopkin's University (USA)
Email: jcampbel@son.jhmi.edu
Dr. Campbell’s overall research and policy initiatives focus in the area of family violence and violence against women. She has been Principal Investigator on three National Institute of Health (NIH), two Centre for Disease Control (CDC), one Department of Defence and one National Institute of Justice research grants on battering. Specific research areas include risk factors and assessment for intimate partner homicide, abuse during pregnancy, marital rape, physical and mental health effects of intimate partner violence, prevention of dating violence and interventions to prevent and address domestic violence. Dr. Campbell’s awards include Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing, the Kellogg National Leadership Program, a Robert Wood Johnson Urban Health Fellowship, three honorary doctorates, the Simon Visiting Scholar at the University of Manchester in the UK, and elected membership in the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Campbell also has worked with wife abuse shelters and advocacy organizations for the last twenty-five years. She has facilitated support groups and served on the board of four shelters. Currently, she is on the Boards of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco, the House of Ruth in Baltimore, and has served on the congressionally appointed Department of Defence Task Force on Domestic Violence.
Jeffery H. Coben, MD
Professor Departments of Emergency Medicine and Community Medicine
Injury Control Research Centre (ICRC)
and Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine
West Virginia University (USA)
Email: JCOBEN@wpahs.org
Dr. Coben is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed a combined residency program in Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine at Northwestern University Medicat Centre. He is currently scientific director for the Injury Control Research Centre and Director of the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University. Dr. Coben's research utilises public healtha nd health services research methods to examine topics relevant to emergency medicine and trauma prevention. Major areas of concentration include intimate partner violence and transportation-related injuries.
In 2000-2001, Dr. Coben served as Senior Scholar in Residence for Domestic Violence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, during which he completed a project identifying performance measures for evaluating hospital-based family violence programs. The resulting product, the Delphi Instrument for Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Programs, is currently being used in an evaluation project monitoring New Zealand healthcare system responsiveness to women and children victims of family violence. Dr Coben serves as a co-investigator on that project that is funded by the Ministry of Health.
Brenda Costa-Scorse, BHSc (nursing), Dip Adult Tertiary Teaching, RGON
Department of Paramedicine and Emergency Management
Email: Brenda.Costa-Scorse@aut.ac.nz
Brenda's enthsuiasm for Paramedicine and Emergency Management is contagious. Proposed projects include: trauma scoring, effectiveness of assessing Paramedic clinical judgement with high fidelity clinical simulation compared with use of a viva voce, comparison of patterns of injury in two NZ skifields, and disaster recovery research to explore ways in which to promote community resilience.
Helen Curreen MA, PGDip SocSciRes, Dip Tchg
Senior Lecturer
Email: Helen.Curreen@aut.ac.nz
Helen teaches the Diploma in Violence and Trauma Studies, a one year undergraduate programme which has a primary focus on family violence and crisis intervention. Helen has extensive experience working in the Family Court, with women's Refuge and men's stopping violence programmes. Her research interests stem from reviewing the Family Courts use of men's programmes and being part of a research team exploring male partner violence towards women using discourse analysis. More recently Helen has developed an interest in exploring the educational and personal processes experienced by students who are receiving education about violence and trauma.
Lynne Giddings, PhD, RGON, RM (Co-Director)
Associate Professor
ITRU Co-Director
Email: Lynne.Giddings@aut.ac.nz
Lynne's passion is to research issues in education and practice that focus on women's health issues and social justice. Current collaborative research projects focus on: trauma (discourse analysis), qualitative researchers experience of seeking ethical approval (grounded theory), on-line learning (survey), Women Seeking Healthcare In Aotearoa/New Zealand: Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (qualitative descriptive), and the life stories of nursing and midwifery researchers in Aotearoa/New Zealand (case study). Lynne's work is strongly influenced by the critical, poststructural (postmodern) and feminist research philosophical approaches, especially those that use participatory methods. She has experience in using grounded theory and other qualitative interpretive methodologies as well as various quantitative methods and historical research (life-history and narrative inquiry).
Email: Dene.Hancock@aut.ac.nz
Dene has had 20 years experience teaching anatomy to physiotherapy, occupational therapy and medical students. Her research interests stem from her concern that some students are stressed by dissection or the observation of dissected prosections, and the different strategies students use to deal with a potentially traumatic situation. She has also been interested in the relationship between general psychological morbidity and stress associated with dissection. In her teaching Dene has begun developing some interventions to mitigate or alleviate the symptoms of stress associated with dissection.
Patria Hume, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Sport and Recreation
Email: Patria.Hume@aut.ac.nz
Patria's research focuses on reducing sporting injuries and improving sport performance by investigating injury mechanisms and injury prevention methods. Patria led the development of the ACC SportSmart injury prevention programme. Patria conducts epidemiological sports analysis for ACC.
Jane Koziol-McLain, PhD, RN (Co-Director)
Professor of Nursing
Email: Jane.Koziol-McLain@aut.ac.nz
Jane joined AUT and the ITRU in 2001 after completing an interdisciplinary violence prevention post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. Jane has 18 years experience in emergency nursing and 13 years experience in health care research. Emergency healthcare, injury prevention and family violence have been the focus of her research aimed at informing practice and policy. She is involved with several mixed method studies in New Zealand to improve healthcare system responsiveness to women and children living with partner violence. In addition to her nursing and research background she has worked or volunteered in women's refuges in both New Zealand and the US.
Maria Rameka, BAappSc, RGON
Principal Lecturer
Department of Nursing
Email: Maria.Rameka@aut.ac.nz
Maria Rameka, is a developing trauma researcher. As an ITRU member, she contributes to negotiating for cultural safety in the research process in accordance with the Treaty of Waitangi. Her current research activities include studying the experience of Maori students in tertiary education (her Master's thesis topic) and screening for partner violence in the healthcare setting.
Jan Wilson, PhD, DipEd, DipGuid & Counselling, MNZAC
Senior Lecturer
Department of Nursing and
Counsellor at the Health and Counselling Centre
Email: Jan.Wilson@aut.ac.nz
Jan Wilson has extensive experience as a counsellor. Her particular interest is working with women who have experienced depression or trauma. She is also a PhD student exploring the narratives of women whose lives have been seriously interrupted by depression, and who have found non-professional' responses useful in their journey beyond depression. In another study, she is collecting and analysing the stories of students completing the Bachelor of Health Science degree who are surprised that they managed to make it to the final stages of their programme. The research is designed to discover some of the things that these students found helpful in their struggle to succeed.