Adjunct Associate Professor
Leonie Cox
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Biography
Leonie is a social anthropologist with extensive experience in teaching, research and supervision on cross cultural issues and their impact on health and health service provision. Leonie is also a mental health nurse with over two decades clinical experience in acute psychiatry and in the alcohol and other drugs field. In terms of teaching Leonie has a special interest in the philosophy and practice of cultural safety as it applies to nursing in the Australian context. She coordinates, designs and teaches a major unit focusing on cultural safety in the Bachelor of Nursing and teaches in this area at undergraduate and post-graduate level across the Faculty of Health and founded a faculty wide curriculum group in this area.Research interests and approaches Leonie's phenomenological ethnography explores:
- historical issues and health
- cultural safety
- a critique of individualism
- the medicalisation and criminalisation of difference and poverty
- suicide
- studies of knowledge, power, class and racisms
- social, political and cultural determinants of health
- the interface between individuals, communities and government institutions
- community driven research and community research priorities
- Indigenous success in higher education
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Keywords
Cultural Safety, Mental health, Ethnography, Existential Psychiatry, Health And History, Indigenous Health And Well-Being, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges in Higher Education, Phenomenology, Social, Political & Cultural Health Determinants, Suicide
Research field
Anthropology, Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Social Anthropology) (University of Sydney)
- Graduate Certificate Education [Higher Education] (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1) Social Anthropology (University of Sydney)
- MENTAL HEALTH NURSE REGISTERED (Other)
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
- health, culture and diversity
- cultural safety encompassing power, racisms, corporate and professional self-reflection
- Indigenous health and social and emotional well-being
- psychiatry and mental health nursing
- sociology/anthropology and nursing
Current Coordination
Current teaching and curriculum design School of Nursing and Faculty of Health
- Lectures, online modules and tutorials NSB102 Professional Practice and Cultural Safety
- Lectures, online modules and tutorials NSB204 Mental Health Self and Others on cultural safety, suicide, personality disorder, self-harm, Indigenous social and emotional well-being, psychosis, mental health assessment
- Tutorials NSB202 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Well-Being
- Lectures Masters of Psychology PYN030/PYN603: cultural safety and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional well being: Australian history and society, social and emotional well-being and mental health
- Workshop lecture series Clinical Sciences, Bachelor of Laboratory Science LQB883: Cultural safety and intercultural communication
- Lecture LQB184 Biomedical Skills 1 cultural safety
- Lecture/workshop Masters of Public Health PUN632 : Cultural safety in health management
- Lecture Bachelor of Social Work SWH202: Cultural safety and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional well being
- Lecture MA in Clinical Psychology and the MA in Education and Developmental Psychology PYN030/PYN603 -cultural safety and Indigenous Social and Emotional Well-being
- Creative Industries: Indigenous Knowledges Minor:OUB100 Yatdjuligin - Cultural Safety in Indigenous Australian context. Whiteness, white privilege. cultural safety.
Experience
- 2020 ongoing Jimbelunga Model of Care and literature review
- 2017 ongoing Introducing Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students to concepts relevant to intercultural issues in pathology practice
- 2013 Cultural Safety in Consumer and Carer led mental health research
- 2012 'Learning, teaching and practising social equity', to the Innovation & Development Program, 2012, Competitive Grant
- 2011 Recruitment and retention of Indigenous nursing students at QUT (Funded by OCNO)
- 2009 - 2011: Promoting resilience and effective workplace functioning in international students enrolled in health courses, ALTC Competitive Grant
- 2009: From theory to practice: Cultural Safety (funded T and L Project)
- 2007-2012: consultant on an Indigenous social and emotional well-being project with the Mater CYMHS “Bringing up children Gran’s Way” (AIATSIS Funding)
- 2010: member of a Queensland Health Community of Practice (COP) on cultural issues in nurse education and a related Queensland Health’s Steering Committee Implementing the Cross Cultural Learning and Development Strategy.
- work with the Rotary Indigenous Mental Heath Forum Planning Committee and a resulting in a community forum with the Inala Elders on mental health issues which is being carried forward by an Indigenous colleague.
Publications
- Cox, L. & Taua, C. (2021). Cultural safety. Jarvis's Health Assessment and Physical Examination, 41–63. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205738
- Drummond, A., Kidd, J., Cox, L. & Taua, C. (2020). Enabling cultural safety. Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing, 49–83. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206099
- Geia, L., Baird, K., Bail, K., Barclay, L., Bennett, J., Best, O., Birks, M., Blackley, L., Blackman, R., Bonner, A., Bryant AO, R., Buzzacott, C., Campbell, S., Catling, C., Chamberlain, C., Cox, L., Cross, W., Cruickshank, M., Cummins, A., Dahlen, H., Daly, J., Darbyshire, P., Davidson, P., Denney-Wilson, E., De Souza, R., Doyle, K., Drummond, A., Duff, J., Duffield, C., Dunning, T., East, L., Elliott, D., Elmir, R., Fergie OAM, D., Ferguson, C., Fernandez, R., Flower AM, D., Foureur, M., Fowler, C., Fry, M., Gorman, E., Grant, J., Gray, J., Halcomb, E., Hart, B., Hartz, D., Hazelton, M., Heaton, L., Hickman, L., Homer AO, C., Hungerford, C., Hutton, A., Jackson AO, D., Johnson, A., Kelly, M., Kitson, A., Knight, S., Levett-Jones, T., Lindsay, D., Lovett, R., Luck, L., Molloy, L., Manias, E., Mannix, J., Marriott, A., Martin, M., Massey, D., McCloughen, A., McGough, S., McGrath, L., Mills, J., Mitchell, B., Mohamed, J., Montayre, J., Moroney, T., Moyle, W., Moxham, L., Northam OAM, H., Nowlan, S., O'Brien, A., Ogunsiji, O., Paterson, C., Pennington, K., Peters, K., Phillips, J., Power, T., Procter, N., Ramjan, L., Ramsay, N., Rasmussen, B., Rihari-Thomas, J., Rind, B., Robinson, M., Roche, M., Sainsbury, K., Salamonson, Y., Sherwood, J., Shields, L., Sim, J., Skinner, I., Smallwood, G., Smallwood, R., Stewart, L., Taylor, S., Usher AM, K., Virdun, C., Wannell, J., Ward, R., West, C., West, R., Wilkes, L., Williams, R., Wilson, R., Wynaden, D. & Wynne, R. (2020). A unified call to action from Australian nursing and midwifery leaders: Ensuring that Black Lives Matter. Contemporary Nurse, 56(4), 297–308. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205712
- Corfee, F., Cox, L. & Windsor, C. (2020). The constitution of space in intensive care: Power, knowledge and the othering of people experiencing mental illness. Nursing Inquiry, 27(2). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204184
- Corfee, F., Cox, L. & Windsor, C. (2019). The social reproduction of difference: Mental illness and the intensive care environment. Aporia: the Nursing Journal, 11(2), 35–43. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/128360
- Chaplin, B., Cox, L. & Campbell, C. (2018). Researching marginalized populations: Methodological challenges in transgender research. SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2, 1–18. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123526
- Bird, J., Cox, L. & Brough, M. (2016). Doing belonging: Meanings of home and settlement among the Karen Community in Brisbane, Australia. Journal of Social Inclusion, 7(1), 72–84. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101589
- Bird, J., Brough, M. & Cox, L. (2016). Transnationalism and the Karen wrist-tying ceremony: An ethnographic account of Karen settlement practice in Brisbane. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 27(1), 104–120. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86981
- Cox, L. & Simpson, A. (2015). Cultural safety, diversity and the servicer user and carer movement in mental health research. Nursing Inquiry, 22(4), 306–316. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82568
- Cox, L., (2015). Cultural safety and diversity: Refocusing our energies in mental health nursing practice, education and research (Conference Abstract). International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 24, 9–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92673
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Leonie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- In 2015 I was first invited to present cultural safety workshops to nursing staff groups at the RBWH. In 2015 I was invited to present to the Metro-North Mental Health Services staff team. In 2018 I was invited to present workshops to the Clinical Education Team and on March 1st 2019 I delivered the first of 3 cultural safety workshops to the RBWH Cancer Care Transition Program. The remaining two are scheduled for April and September.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Invited to present and presented 3 mandatory workshops to approximately 150 NMBA state board members on cultural safety at their annual national conference, June 2018.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Workshop co-faclitator on national roadshow for Nursing and Midwifery National Health Curriculum Framework
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award for curriculum innovation and development
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Invited to national roundtables and appointed to select national working group to produce the Nursing and Midwifery National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award for innovation of cultural safety in biomedical sciences
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Invited to attend national symposium HAVING THE HARD CONVERSATIONSGood practice in working with resistance to Indigenous health and cultural safety
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Visiting Research Fellow July-December 2013 working with mental health consumers' advisory group [SUGAR] and teaching cultural safety
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Invited to national meeting on teaching mental health nursing in undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing curricula
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Invited to a National Teaching Mental Health Workshop in Melbourne June 2010
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- "Why are you crying? You got what you wanted!" Psychosocial experiences of sex reassignment surgery (2016)
- "Talking with lips" : Settlement, transnationalism and identity of Karen people from Burma living in Brisbane, Australia (2013)
- Chaotic Soul-Messy Heart: The Phenomenon of Experiencing Auditory Hallucinations (2012)
- Narratives of complexity: an ethnographic exploration of resilience and wellbeing among single refugee women in Brisbane (2011)
- "When you're black, they look at you harder" : narrating aboriginality within public health (2007)
- Food to go round': Negotiating Healthy Eating for Management and Prevention of type 2 Diabetes among some Urban Indigenous Australians (2006)