Dr. Vicki Saunders
Bpych, MPH, PhDPostdoctoral Research Fellow - STRIDE-700114
School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences
Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research, First Nations Academy
Dr Saunders (BPsych, MPH, PhD) is a Gunggari woman with connections to the Maranoa region of Southern Central Queensland. She is currently research fellow with the Jawun Research Centre (formerly the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity) Central Queensland University and the Centre for Research Excellence-Strengthening Systems STRengthening systems for InDigenous health care Equity (CRE-STRIDE). She brings expertise in building First Peoples research capacity, public health research and arts-based, Indigenist and poetic inquiry. She is also Adjunct Research Associate with the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre through the Listening to Country project (see www.listeningtocountry.com). She has published in mostly health related journals and 2 book chapters on arts informed research methods. She has previously been part of the Collaborative Research in Empowerment and Wellbeing (CREW) team in Far North Queensland, and the James Cook University led Building Indigenous Research Capacity (BIRC) project. She is currently a member of the Maya Kawayu Indigenous data governance committee (ANU) and the Muliyan research consortium, which is a community of independent academics/educational researchers working with the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives. With an extensive background in social emotional wellbeing, psychology and public health research, she has been involved in a range of creative health and wellbeing research projects with Indigenous and community-based organisations.
Universities Studied At
James Cook University
Universities Worked At
James Cook University
Griffith University
University of New England
Awards
JCU College of Health Science - Deans thesis award
Previous teaching
Biostatistics in Tropical Health Public Health
Qualitative research -Indigenous research methodologies module
Indigenous health research
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
- 4501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history
- 4506 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sciences
- 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation
- 4206 Public health
- 4208 Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine
Current Capacity
Other creative arts and writing - Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
Health services and systems - Mental health services
Health services and systems - Mental health services
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural determinants of health
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander theory of change models for health
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sciences - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge management methods
