Dr Jessica Woodroffe
Lecturer and Project Co-ordinator
BA (Hons) MA, PhD
Contact Details
| Label |
Detail |
| Contact Campus |
Newnham Campus |
| Building |
Z Block |
| Room Reference |
229 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6324 4020 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6324 4040 |
| Email |
jjwhelan@utas.edu.au |
Additional Information
Profile
Jess has worked with the UDRH for the last 7 years and comes from a health sociology and social work background. She works in a number of areas of the UDRH including research higher degrees supervision, E-Health unit teaching, community engagement and community health development, health workforce and interprofessional education and practice. She works closely with the Launceston Clinical School on a number of projects.
Teaching Responsibilities
Jess currently co-supervises a number of research higher degrees students enrolled in the UDRH and other schools within the Faculty of Health Science.
She also teaches/supervises the following unit:
- CAM 724 – Masters in E-Health: Workplace Learning: Major Project
Research Interests
- Community Health Development and Engagement
- Social and health policy
- Health Sociology
- Interprofessional learning and practice
- Health workforce
Current Projects
- West Tamar Community Health and Wellbeing Mapping Project and Community Plan
- Northern Midlands Community Health Needs Assessment
- West Tamar Council Positive Ageing Strategy
- Future Options for Research and Analysis- Baptcare Devonport Study
- Health Literacy for Older People Pilot Project
- Exploring Interprofessional Practice (IPP) and Learning (IPL) in Rural Clinical Settings
- Break O'Day i-phone for Information Literacy Project
- Older Tasmanians and Food Security
- Health and Wellbeing of International Medical Graduates- Acculturation into the Tasmanian Rural Context
- Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) in Paramedic Practice
- Genetic Cardiac Disease in Tasmania- Perspectives of Patients and Doctors
Selected Publications
- A 'RIPPER' Project: advancing rural inter-professional health education at the University of Tasmania Whelan, JJ and Spencer, J and Rooney, KF, 2008 * International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health 8 (3) EJ ISSN 1445-6354
- A RIPPER Project: Advancing Rural Interprofessional Health Education at the University of Tasmania Whelan, J, Spencer, J and Rooney, K 2008 * The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health 8 1017
- Building Rural Health Care Teams through Interprofessional Simulation-Based education Whelan, J, Spencer, J and Dalton L 2009 * National Rural health Conference, Cairns
- Rural Interprofessional Program Emergency Retreat (RIPPER): A simulation-enhanced undergraduate rural interprofessional program at the University of Tasmania Woodroffe, JJ and Spencer, J and Rooney, KF 2010 * A Bright Future for Rural Health: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Rural and Remote Australian Health Care, ARHEN, ARHEN (ed), Canberra 85-87. ISBN 97809775
- The Quality of Life and Social Needs of International Medical Graduates: Emerging Themes in Research Terry, D and Le, Q and Woodroffe, JJ and Ogden, K, 2011 * International Journal of Innovative Interdisciplinary Research I 1 (1) 59-67. ISSN 1839
- Community Health Needs Assessment: A platform for promoting partnerships and community-engaged research to improve community health and wellbeing Woodroffe, JJ and Spencer, J and Auckland, SRJ, 2011 * Australasian Journal of University Community Engagement 6 (2) 57-79
- The RIPPER Exerpience: A three-year evaluation of an Australian International Rural Health Education Pilot Woodroffe, JJ and Spencer, J and Rooney, KF and Le, Q and Allen, P, 2011 * Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education 2 (2) 1-18
Full Publication List
Research Project/s
