Dr Margaret Simmons - Researcher Profile

Biography

Margaret is a sociologist in the Gippsland Medical School teaching graduate medical students a social perspective on health and also coordinating the Community Based Practice Program. Her PhD uses narrative analysis and poetic representation to tell the stories of Gippsland women evacuated as children in WWII Britain who immigrated to Australia in the postwar period.

Through her work in the medical school, she is also interested in ways of facilitating greater sociological understanding and pedagogies of practice for medical students.

 

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Research & Supervision Interests

·          Rural Health

·          Narrative analysis and less traditional forms of representation

·          Gender and rural issues

·          Ageing and notions of home and migration

 

 

Keywords

ageing, evacuation, home, migration, narrative analysis, poetic representation

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2010

HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2010

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2003

Publications

Book Chapters

Simmons, M., 2008, Paying the piper: female British WWII evacuees tell their mother's stories, in Children: The Invisible Victims of War: An interdisciplinary study, eds Martin Parsons, DSM Technical Publications, Denton Peterborough UK, pp. 167-182.

Journal Articles

Simmons, M., 2011, Operation Pied Piper: Fairy tales and other narratives, Children in War: The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies [P], vol 1, issue 8, DSM Technical Publications, UK, pp. 57-64.

Simmons, M., 2010, From bombs to briquettes: Women in Australia tell their stories of British WWII evacuation, Children in War: The International Journal of Evacu..., vol 1, issue 7, DSM Technical Publications, UK, pp. 45-58.

Simmons, M., 2006, British WWII child evacuees - revisited, revisioned and repositioned, Children in War: The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies, vol 1, issue 4, DSM Technical Publications, Peterborough UK, pp. 51-59.

Conference Proceedings

Simmons, M., 2010, Transformations: Transcripts to poetic representations, 2010 National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing: Getting the Right Skill Mix: Abstracts & Proceedings, 21 and 22 October 2010, Emerging Researchers in Ageing, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, pp. 130-133.

Simmons, M.H., 2009, A toolkit for stories of women who were child evacuees in WWII Britain and also postwar British immigrants to Australia, 8th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing, 22 October 2009 to 23 October 2009, Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Care, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 173-176.

Other

Gray, K., Brown, J., Cook, C., Jones, D., Kassell, L., Lu, G., Murshed, M.M., Simmons, M.H., Villanueva, E.V., 2012, Corridor conversations: exploring IP camera use in GP registrar education in a regional setting, Corridor conversations: exploring ip camera use in gp registrar education in a regional setting, General practice education and training ltd, Canberra ACT 2601.

Brown, J., Cook, C., Gray, K., Jones, D., Kassell, L., Lu, G., Murshed, M.M., Simmons, M.H., Villanueva, E.V., 2012, Using web based cameras for remote education and supervision. Managing the tyranny of distance and maximising the supervisor resource, Using web based cameras for remote education and supervision. Managing the tyranny of distance and maximising the supervisor resource, General practice education and training ltd, Canberra ACT 2601.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

In the aftermath of the 2009 Gippsland fires: Young adults' perceptions of social support informational links post disaster.

Supervisors:

Willems, J (Main), Simmons, M (Associate).