Career Summary
Since graduating from a Masters of Public Health in 1999, Christine has combined her long-term and wide-ranging health care experience with academic research activities at UTas. Christine has secured research funds in the form of grants and consultancies. She has considerable consultancy experience, having undertaken projects for, amongst others, Emergency Management Australia, the Australian Rural Health Education Network Ltd, South Australian and Tasmanian Ambulance Services, the Tasmanian Government Department of Economic Development and various non-government organisations. Since completing her PhD, Christine’s current role has been as UDRH Assistant Director with thematic responsibility for workforce issues. She participates in committees at a university, state and national level.
Christine is responsible for providing research and evaluation expertise to support the UDRH. She is involved in supervising, undertaking, and designing research along with grant writing to inform rural health research. She disseminates the results of her research through report writing, journal articles and conference presentations.
Teaching Responsibilities: Half or one day workshops on evaluation, community needs assessment, and team leadership.
Research Interests
Christine’s research centres on community development, volunteers and rural health workforce issues, with a strong interest in evaluating how organisational processes interact with communities. Her research has included people and organisations in the South Pacific region, namely Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, and Melanesia. She has applied both phenemological and critical theoretical approaches to rural social and health issues.
Christine is also a Fellow of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia and a member of the Australian and Oceanic Network for rural social research and community development.
Selected Publications:- Stirling, C., O'Meara, P., Pedler, D., Tourle, V., Walker, J., 2007, 'Engaging Rural Communities in Health Care through a Paramedic Expanded Scope of Practice', The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy, 7, pgs. 839 EJ
- Warburton, J., Stirling, C., 2007, 'Factors Affecting Volunteering Among Older Rural and City Dwelling Adults in Australia', Educational Gerontology, 33 (1), pgs. 23-43
- Bell, E., Stirling, C., 2006, 'What Tools Help Make 'Whole-of-Patient' Practices Happen?', Holistic Nursing Practice, 20 (3), pgs. 130-136
- Stirling, C., Monaghan, J., 2005, 'Australian rural midwives: perspectives on continuing professional development', Rural and Remote Health, 5 (468), pgs. 1-8
- Stirling, C., 2003, 'Working with communities' to 'build social capital' - Reflecting on old and new thinking about volunteers', The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 18 (4), pgs. 12-17
- Stirling, C., Walker, J., Lennox, G., 2003, 'Flexible, Focused Training: Keeps Volunteer Ambulance Officers', Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care, 1, pgs. 1-2 EJ
- Stirling, C., Walker, J., Sleigh, A., 2002, 'Training can be a recruitment and retention tool for emergency service volunteers', The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 17 (3), pgs. 4-7
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