My name is Michelle Redman-MacLaren. I am an Anglo-Celt born on Gubbi Gubbi country, with most of my childhood spent on a farm on Gamilaraay country (near what is now known as Narrabri). I have a professional background as a social worker, and continue to draw on my passion for inclusive, developmental and decolonising processes developed during my undergraduate and Master of Social Work studies at the University of Queensland.

Since 2005, I have contributed to higher education as a tutor, lecturer, field educator, public health researcher and more recently, as a supervisor for higher degree students.

I am currently the Associate Dean, Research Education in the College of Medicine and Dentistry, where I strive to create spaces that support successful higher degree students and their advisors. I am also a public health researcher who facilitates qualitative and mixed methods research. I co-research with Indigenous peoples, especially Pacific Islander and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to improve sexual and reproductive health, reduce transmission of infectious diseases and strengthen health systems. My NHMRC-funded PhD research, undertaken in the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University, was a transformational grounded theory study focused on HIV prevention with women in Papua New Guinea.  

I am also exploring arts-based approaches to research through poetic inquiry, as I presented in a recent TEDx talk. For more details on my scholarly work please visit my JCU Publications page, my Google Scholar page or my OrcidID.

Teaching

• HS5102: Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals (Level 5; TSV)
• HS7405: Research Methodologies for Health Professionals (Level 7; TSV)
• RM8301: Research Planning in Tropical Health and Medicine (Level 8; CNS & TSV)
• RM8302: Research Project in Tropical Health and Medicine (Level 8; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Research

• Participatory approaches to research
• Decolonising research
• Research capacity strengthening
• Pacific peoples health
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Social and cultural determinants of health
• Poetic inquiry

Experience

• 2020 to present - Associate Dean Research Education, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2018 to present - Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2017 to 2018 - Research Fellow, Central Queensland University (Cairns)
• 2008 to 2016 - Research Officer/Fellow, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2006 to 2009 - Casual Lecturer/Tutor, James Cook University (Cairns)

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)
• Specialist Studies in Education (1303)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Indigenous Health (9203)
• Public Health (9204)

Awards

• 2020 - Winner, Early Career Researcher category, 3MT College of Medicine and Dentistry, JCU.
• 2016 - Distinguished Friend of Pacific Adventist University, Papua New Guinea.
• 2016 - Dean’s List for Excellence, Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine) 2015
• 2013 - PhD Category Award winner (awarded $2,500). ‘So you think you can research?’ North Queensland Festival of Life Sciences

Fellowships

• 2020 - Adjunct Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow, School of Health Science, Pacific Adventist University
• 2019 - Fellow of ALARA (Action Learning Action Research Association)
• 2018 - Fellow, The Cairns Institute
• 2017 - Adjunct Academic, Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research, CQUniversity Australia

Memberships

• 2019 - Pacific Society for Reproductive Health
• 2017 - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• 2016 - Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies
• 2010 - International Association for Community Development
• 2009 - Reconciliation Queensland Inc
• 2006 - Action Learning & Research Association, Australia and New Zealand
• 2004 - Australian Association of Social Workers
• 2017 to 2020 - Health Systems Global
• 2012 to 2016 - Australasian Society for HIV Medicine
• 2012 to 2015 - Tropical Research Network
• 2009 to 2015 - Public Health Association Australia

Other

• 2012 to 2015 - Doctor of Philosophy: Implications of male circumcision for women in Papua New Guinea, including for HIV prevention. College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University
• 2002 to 2007 - Master of Social Work (Community Development and Human Service Management), University of Queensland
• 1990 to 1993 - Bachelor of Social Work (Major: Community Work), University of Queensland

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Guenther J, Benveniste T, Redman-MacLaren M, Mander D, McCalman J, O’Bryan M, Osborne S and Stewart R (2020) Thinking with theory as a policy evaluation tool: the case of boarding schools for remote First Nations students. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 20 (1), pp. 34-52, DOI:10.1177/1035719X20905056.
• Harrington R, Redman-MacLaren M, Harvey N, Puia M, Carlisle K and Larkins S (2020) Barriers and enablers to using contraceptives for family planning at Atoifi Hospital, East Kwaio, Solomon Islands. Pacific Journal of Reproductive Health, 1 (10), pp. 586-597, DOI:10.18313/pjrh.2020.003.
• Kelly-Hanku A, Worth H, Redman-MacLaren M, Nosi S, Boli-Neo R, Ase S, Hou P, Aeno H, Kupul M, Amos A, Badman S, Vallely A and Hakim A (in press) Perpetration of violence by female sex workers in Papua New Guinea: 'We will crush their bones'. The British Journal of Criminology, , DOI:10.1093/bjc/azaa058.
• Kelly-Hanku A, Redman-MacLaren M, Boli-Neo R, Nos S, Ase S, Aeno H, Nembari J, Amos A, Gabuzzi J, Kupu M, Williie B, Narokobi R, Hou P, Pekon S, Kaldor J, Badman S, Vallely A and Hakim A (2020) Confidential, accessible point-of-care sexual health services to support the participation of key populations in biobehavioural surveys: lessons for Papua New Guinea and other settings where reach of key populations is limited. PLoS ONE, 15 (5), Article: e0233026, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0233026.
• Redman-MacLaren M (in press) Pacific women, HIV, and me: a positioned critical poetic inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, , DOI:10.1177/1077800420934141.
• Asugeni R, Redman-MacLaren M, Asugeni J, Esau T, Timothy F, Massey P and Maclaren D (2019) A community builds a “bridge”: an example of community-led adaptation to sea-level rise in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands. Climate and Development Journal, 11 (1), pp. 91-96, DOI:10.1080/17565529.2017.1411239.
• Marks M, Toloka H, Baker C, Kositz C, Asugeni J, Puiahi E, Asugeni R, Azzopardi K, Diau J, Kaldor J, Romani L, Redman-MacLaren M, MacLaren D, Solomon A, Mabey D and Steer A (2019) Randomized trial of community treatment with azithromycin and ivermectin mass drug administration for control of scabies and impetigo. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 68 (6), pp. 927-933, DOI:10.1093/cid/ciy574.
• Marks M, Toloka H, Baker C, Kositz C, Asugeni J, Puiahi E, Asugeni R, Azzopardi K, Diau J, Kaldor J, Romani L, Redman-MacLaren M, MacLaren D, Solomon A, Mabey D and Steer A (2019) Randomised trial of community treatment with azithromycin and ivermectin mass drug administration for control of scabies and impetigo. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 68 (6), pp. 927-933, DOI:10.1093/cid/ciy574.
• McPhail-Bell K and Redman-MacLaren M (2019) A co/autoethnography of peer support and PhDs: being, doing, and sharing in academia. The Qualitative Report, 24 (5), Article: 12.
• Redman-MacLaren M, Mafile'o T, Tommbe R and MacLaren D (2019) Meeting in the middle: using Lingua Franca in cross-language qualitative health research in Papua New Guinea. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, DOI:10.1177/1609406919883459.
• Redman-MacLaren M, Benveniste T, McCalman J, Rutherford K, Britton A, Langham E, Stewart R, Saunders P, Kinchin I and Bainbridge R (2019) Through the eyes of students: the satisfaction of remote Indigenous boarding students’ with a transition support service in Queensland, Australia. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 48 (1), DOI:10.1017/jie.2019.3.

Book Chapters

• Bainbridge R, McCalman J, Redman-MacLaren M and Whiteside M (2019) Grounded theory as systems science: working with Indigenous nations for social justice. In: The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory. Sage, London, UK, pp. 611-629

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 60+ research outputs authored by Dr Michelle Redman-MacLaren from 2010 onwards.

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Social Workers' Lived Experience of Working within the End-of-Life Care Context (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Family planning service provision in Solomon Islands: A Case Study Approach (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood: Experiences of Adolescent Females in Papua New Guinea. (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Perception and Practives of Utilizing Sexual and Reproductive Health Information and Services among Young People in Papua New Guinea (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Healthy Ageing in the Torres Strait: Developing and Implementing a Framework for Best-Practice Aged Care within Primary Health Care Centres (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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