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About

Michelle is known for her ability to facilitate action-oriented research in a culturally respectful way for positive public health outcomes. She achieves this by facilitating participatory, decolonising public health research with Pacific Islander and Indigenous Australian peoples that is sensitive to culture, spirituality and gender. Michelle has worked in the Pacific (Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea) and in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities for over 20 years.

Michelle has taught community development, social policy and research subjects, and facilitated public health research with universities in Australia, PNG and Solomon Islands for over 10 years. Michelle previously worked as a social worker/community development worker in hospital and community health settings, facilitating community development, health promotion, health worker training, and national and international NGO management (including support of refugees).

During her NHMRC-funded PhD research, Michelle explored the implications of male circumcision practices with women in PNG, including women's risk of HIV transmission. As an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Michelle works in the Pacific to facilitate public health research and research capacity strengthening.

For more information about the Solomon Islands research, please visit: Atoifi Research Home Page

On Twitter Michelle shares about the Pacific, action research, women, health and poetry @shelmaclaren

Interests

Research

Participatory action research
Decolonising research
Research capacity strengthening
Pacific Islands
Indigenous

Experience

2008 to present - Senior/Research Officer, James Cook University (Cairns)
2006 to 2009 - Casual Lecturer/Tutor, James Cook University (Cairns)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Publications

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Journal Articles

Heyeres M, McCalman J, Bainbridge R and Redman-Maclaren M (2017) Staff capacity development initiatives that support the well-being of Indigenous children in their transitions to boarding schools: a systematic scoping review. Frontiers in Education, 2. pp. 1-10
McCalman J, Bainbridge R, Redman-Maclaren M, Russo S, Rutherford K, Tsey K, Ungar M, Wenitong M and Hunter E (2017) The development of a survey instrument to assess Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ resilience and risk. Frontiers in Education, pp. 1-13
Redman-Maclaren M, Klieve H, McCalman J, Russo S, Rutherford K, Wenitong M and Bainbridge R (2017) Measuring resilience and risk factors for the psychosocial wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding school students: pilot baseline study results. Frontiers in Education, 2. pp. 1-22
Charlson F, Redman-Maclaren M and Hunter E (2015) Evaluation of a Leadership in Mental Health course for Pacific Island Nation delegates. Australasian Psychiatry, 23 (6). pp. 38-41
MacLaren D, Redman-MacLaren M, Timothy-Harrington R, Asugeni R, Muse E, Jimuru E, Moutoa K and Speare R (2015) Strengthening capacity for local evidence to inform local responses to HIV in a remote Solomon Islands health service. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 6 (2). pp. 1-8
Redman-MacLaren M (2015) Becoming a researcher: an auto-ethnographic account of a doctoral researcher re-presented in poetry. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 28 (3). pp. 207-214
Redman-MacLaren M and Mills J (2015) Transformational grounded theory: theory, voice, and action. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 14 (3). pp. 1-12
Usher K, Redman-Maclaren M, Mills J, West C, Casella E, Hapsari E, Bonita S, Rosaldo R, Liswar A and Zang Y (2015) Strengthening and preparing: enhancing nursing research for disaster management. Nurse Education in Practice, 15 (1). pp. 68-74
Redman-MacLaren M, Api U, Darius M, Tommbe R, Mafile'o T and MacLaren D (2014) Co-interviewing across gender and culture: expanding qualitative research methods in Melanesia. BMC Public Health, 14. pp. 1-7
Redman-MacLaren M, Mills J and Tommbe R (2014) Interpretive focus groups: a participatory method for interpreting and extending secondary analysis of qualitative data. Global Health Action, 7. pp. 1-6
Usher K, Park T, Trueman S, Redman-MacLaren M, Casella E and Woods C (2014) An educational program for mental health nurses and community health workers from Pacific Island countries: results from a pilot study. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 35 (5). pp. 337-343

Book Chapters

O'Dwyer S, McDonough S, Jefferson R, Goff J and Redman-Maclaren M (2017) Writing groups in the digital age: a case study analysis of Shut Up & Write Tuesdays. In: Research 2.0 and the Impact of Digital Technologies on Scholarly Inquiry. Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management (AKATM). IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 249-269

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 36+ research outputs authored by Dr Michelle Redman-MacLaren from 2010 onwards.

Current Funding

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Century Mining Ltd - Grant

Documenting Indigenous Plant Knowledge to Strengthen Cnservation Management in Kwaio, Solomon Islands

Indicative Funding: $26,184
Summary: The project is designed to deliver ongoing capacity-strengthening activities and training in project management, organizational governance and financial management to enhance local conservation efforts in the central mountains of the island of Malaita, Solomon Islands. Our larger goals include setting up a Kwaio CSO to manage conservation activities in the area (see ?Project Objectives? below), protect and conserve priority species on Malaita, and in the longer-term, work toward creating Protected Areas to protect globally threatened species. We also hope the project will serve as a conservation model for other Malaitan and Solomon Islands communities. The project is taking place with people of the Kwaio language group. The mountain Kwaio people are the largest Solomon Islands group still practicing their indigenous ancestral religion. The biodiversity conservation project is documenting the deep local knowledge of medicinal plants and bush foods found in the rainforest of Malaita, and building capacity to undertake similar projects in the future.
Investigators: David MacLaren, John Laete?esafi, Esau Kekeubata, Jackson Waneagea, David Akin, Tommy Esau, Peter Massey, Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Ben Speare, Darren Crayn, Frank Zich, Humpress Harrington and James Asugeni (College of Medicine & Dentistry, Kwainaa Cultural Centre, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, New South Wales Health, Tropical Health Solutions Pty Ltd, College of Science & Engineering, Division of Tropical Environments & Societies, Pacific Adventist University (Atoifi Campus) and Atoifi Adventist Hospital)
Keywords: Kwaio; Traditional Medicine; Solomon Islands; Medicinal Plants; Traditional Knowledge; Biodiversity Conservation

Collaboration

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