Sandpit to Seed
The TNQ Drought Hub is excited to be working with James Cook University researchers to help them move their research ideas that could improve agricultural adaption, sustainability and resilience towar...
Rebekah Lisciandro is passionate about developing her career in research, specifically in health sociology and health justice. Their goal is to help increase health equity, access, and reduce stigma for marginalised people, particularly in regional, rural, and remote areas of Australia.
In 2020, Rebekah graduated with a Class 1 Honours, receiving the University Medal for outstanding academic achievement in a combination of coursework studies and research undertaken at undergraduate level. Her honours thesis examined sociology’s contributions to the study of obesity between 2010 and 2019. She completed her Bachelor of Social Science in 2018, graduating with an Academic Medal.
Rebekah is currently undertaking a PhD in health sociology focusing on the health inequities of marginalised people in northern Queensland using embodiment and arts-based approaches. Health access is already limited in regional, rural, and remote areas compared to metropolitan areas, and those who experience marginalisation are more likely to experience discrimination within health services. An embodiment approach asks how these experiences change the ways in which people care for and understand themselves and their health, as well as the way they interact with health facilities in the future. Arts-based approaches support this by allowing participants to communicate about perceptual and emotional experiences that are often difficult to communicate verbally, like experiences of joy, grief, and pain.
Rebekah aims to examine what marginalised people’s experiences of limited access and discrimination means for them using a strengths-based approach to acknowledge how participants overcome and use their own resources to care for themselves and navigate systems. They hope to contribute to developing best practices to help centre marginalised people within health care.
Rebekah’s supervisory team consists of A/Prof Theresa Petray and Dr Kris McBain-Rigg.
The TNQ Drought Hub is excited to be working with James Cook University researchers to help them move their research ideas that could improve agricultural adaption, sustainability and resilience towar...
The TNQ Drought Hub recently hosted the National Soils Advocate, the Honourable Penelope Wensley AC for a whirlwind 2-day field trip visiting numerous soils restoration and rehabilitation sites to lea...
On 1 August, The Cairns Institute hosted a small, informal symposium for HDR students working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Far North Queensland. It brought together Indigenous...
The Cairns Institute Fellow Dr Kearrin Sims coordinates the JCU Research Ethical Development Symposium, now in its second year. It will be held 27-29 September at The Cairns Institute. This year will ...
The Developing Northern Australia Conference returned to Darwin this year in 2023. In 2021, the conference converted to an online event an hour before the program was due to begin due to a sudden NT C...
The Cairns Institute will host an informal symposium for HDR students working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Far North Queensland. This symposium will explore if and how post-gr...
TNQ Drought Hub’s Professor Allan Dale, Doctor Jane Oorschot and Ms Kara Worth were invited to speak at the Science to Practice Forum and share their experience on innovative tools and practices...
Congratulations to the TNQ Drought Hub drought resilience scholarship recipients. The hub recently offered scholarship opportunities to JCU students who were interested in undertaking an Honours or Ma...
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