Associate Professor Jenny Baker

Qualifications

2007 Doctor of Philosophy. Theorising Survival: Indigenous Women and Social and Emotional Wellbeing. Department of Women’s Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.

 

1995 Master of Primary Health Care. Department of Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide South Australia. Course work masters: majoring in Health Programs and Addiction Studies (National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction)

 

1974 Registered Nurse. Diploma Nursing Adelaide Children's Hospital Inc. SA Nurses' Registration Board Examination

Awards & Achievements

2010 Australian Research Council DIRD Indigenous Research Fellowship. 0.5FTE for 2 years (University of Adelaide)

1999 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (Flinders University)

1996 Duguid Lecture Personal Reflections Flinders University of South Australia and University of South Australia

Teaching Interests

Aboriginal health: historical, socio-economic and political determinants

Health discourse analysis - deconstruction and contextualisation of discourse

Governance and Aboriginal self determination within the Australian health system

Legacies of colonialism and their health impacts

Research Funding

Current research projects

2011- 2013 Australian Research Council DIRD Indigenous Research Fellowship DI110100037 Intersectoral collaboration and capacity building for better outcomes for Aboriginal people in Port Augusta, South Australia. J. Baker  0.5FTE for 2 years.

 2011- University of Adelaide Faculty of Health  Sciences, New Staff Appointment Grants. Re-moving barriers: Future aspirations, education and health of Aboriginal youth in Port Lincoln. J. Baker and D. Coleman  

 2010 – 2013 NHMRC Project Grant 627240‘Linkin’ The health physiology of Port Lincoln. J. Beilby, A. Kitson, J. Newbury, A. Wilson, D. Whitford, J. Karnon, P. Ryan, J. Baker

2010- 2012 Review of the integration of Indigenous components within MPH curricula. Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Network, Deakin University and University of Melbourne. W. Brabham, S.  Ewen, L Coombe, W Anders, J. Jessen,, L. Jackson-Pulver, V Lee, P Stewart, J. Baker, D. Coleman.

 

Publications

Baker, J. (2011). "Not the Native Informant" Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 14(1): Special Edition Guest Editors: B. Fredericks, N. Saunders, T. Bunda, J. Baker

Baker, J., T. Dunbar, and M. Scrimgeour. (2010). Feminist Bioethics and Indigenous Research Reform in Australia: Is an Alliance across Gender, Racial and Cultural Borders a Useful Strategy for Promoting Change? Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins. J. L. Scully, L. E. Baldwin-Ragaven and P. Fitzpatrick. Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press: 243-256.

 

Baker, J. (2010). "Fear of Flying." Rural Society Journal 20(1): 21-34.

 

Baker, J. (2010). "Redefining Wellbeing in the 'Borderlands': Working in the Health and Human Services System." Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 13(3): 59-71. Special Edition Guest Editors: J Baker., P. Dudgeon.,T. Dunbar., B. Fredericks.

 

Baker, J. (2007) Reconstructing gender and 'race' relations after the frontier, Australian Feminist Law Journal, 26(June), pp. 59-79.

 

Steen, T; Sparrow, S; Baker, J; Gollan, S. (June 2007). Socio-spatial issue and the Indigenous Australian culture: Factors which influence Indigenous peoples' use of space within western institutional setting. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. Indigenous Researchers Forum Special Edition. Vol 10, (2) pg 13-25.

 

Baker, J. (2002) 'Experts' and audience. A way to construct invisibility. Stateing Women's Health: Newsletter of the Women of South Australia. September:14-17

 

Baker, J. (2001) What Feminism means to me. Stateing Women's Health: Newsletter of the Women of South Australia. December: 18-20

 

Baker, J. (1993) Aboriginal health issues within the disease system. Social  Alternatives  Vol 12 No.1: 41-44

 

Beilby J, Reed J, Baker J, Wilson K, Sansbury M, Antic R, Robinson PC (1990) Tuberculosis Surveillance in the South Australian Aboriginal Community, Medical Journal of Australia Vol 153(3) pg 149

Community Engagement

2011 Invited guest speaker 'Welcome to our World' series. Organisers Wilbur Wilson and Zell Dodd, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA Dept of Health,

2010 - 2011 Board member, Pika Wiya Aboriginal Corporation Inc. Dartmouth St Port Augusta

2009 - 2011  Ministerial appointment, Pika Wiya Health Service

2007 Invited guest speaker Cultural Safety Symposium, Okanagan First Nations and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/culturalsafety/events/css/baker.html

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 8 Feb 2012