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Dr Melissa Carey

Dr Melissa Carey
Name Melissa Carey
Position Senior Lecturer (Nursing)
Section School of Nursing and Midwifery
Office I321
Location Ipswich Campus
Phone +61 7 3812 6032
Extension 6032
Email
Qualifications BNurs Western Sydney , GCertAdvNurs(AC) Coll Nursing , MNurs USQ , MAdvancedPrac Griffith , PhD QUT
Languages Maori (non accredited translator)
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80qx8/dr-melissa-carey
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Biography

Dr Melissa Carey (Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Huri) has worked as a registered nurse for over 20 years practising within the acute clinical setting in regional and rural Australia. Since 2006 Melissa has been employed within the tertiary education sector where she has developed and delivered various nursing education programmes for undergraduate and post graduate students. Completing a PhD in 2016 at Queensland University of Technology, Melissa is an experienced health researcher, in Ethnographic, Auto-ethnographic and Kaupapa Maori research methodologies. Her research areas include Indigenous knowledge and research, creativity and health education, cultural recovery and healing, cultural safety, cultural needs at end of life and healthy ageing for Maori. Melissa co-leads the Australia and New Zealand Aged, Palliative and End of Life Care research team within the Institute for Resilient Regions, Centre for Health Research and the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southern Queensland. In 2020 Melissa commenced a Postdoctoral Maori Career Development Fellowship funded by the Health Research Council New Zealand and the University of Auckland within the School of Nursing. The focus of this research is to develop and pilot a framework to support healthy ageing and end of life care for Maori people in South Auckland.

Research Career


  • Maori Health ( 111713 )
  • Public Health and Health Services ( 111700 )
  • Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative) ( 111002 )
  • Preventative Health Care ( 420605 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Te Hauora Me Te Oranga O Te Maori (Maori Health And Wellbeing) ( 451000 )
  • Aged Care Nursing ( 420502 )
  • Nursing Workforce ( 420505 )
  • Nursing ( 420500 )
  • Community And Primary Care ( 420503 )

Maori health and well-being
Indigenous Knowledges
Cultural Safety and Nursing
Aged , Palliative and End of Life Care Research


International Association for Contemporary Ethnography Across Disciplines
Australian College of Nursing
Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Te Aparangi
Queensland Maori Society
New Zealand Association for Gerontology


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)

Teaching


HEA8302 Culture as a Determinant of Health
HEA8303 Community Development and Health
HEA8105 Perspective on 'End of Life'


16 Years

Supervision


  • Maori Health ( 111713 )
  • Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative) ( 111002 )
  • Preventative Health Care ( 420605 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Te Hauora Me Te Oranga O Te Maori (Maori Health And Wellbeing) ( 451000 )
  • Aged Care Nursing ( 420502 )
  • Nursing Workforce ( 420505 )
  • Nursing ( 420500 )
  • Community And Primary Care ( 420503 )