Professor Jayna McCalman
Fellow
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Role(s): Fellow Level: Full Status: Active
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Dr Janya McCalman is a Professorial Research Fellow at CQUniversity at the Jawun Research Centre and a public health researcher. She is recognised for her extensive research on the interactions between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians with schools, workplaces, health services and other community contexts which enable resilience, empowerment and wellbeing. Papers have focused on Aboriginal mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, youth health, maternal and child health, health services research, health promotion and implementation research. Her PhD was conferral in 2013; for this she won the Dean’s Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence. Her methodological expertise lies particularly in participatory and action-oriented quality improvement research approaches; grounded theory; systematic literature reviews; and research transfer and implementation. She supervises and mentors several Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and non-Indigenous research students.
