Dr Margo Sendall
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
I am a Visiting Fellow in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology.LEARNING AND TEACHING: I have tutored, lectured, guest lectured, coordinated and graded across the full spectrum of units from large (>175) undergraduate core public health units offered as multi-disciplinary electives to specialist methodology (qualitative) units to small boutique (health promotion) units in undergraduate and post graduate degrees to core (health promotion) and capstone (project and dissertation) units in Masters of Public Health (coursework). I have coordinated 48 units with a total enrolment of over 2,200 students and revenue worth more than 4.6 million dollars.
RESEARCH: My expertise is settings based health promotion and participatory action research. I have won a total of $1.6 million competitive and commercial grant dollars. I was a co-investigator on a successful competitive grant worth nearly $900,000 over 4 years to investigate sun protection strategies for outdoor workers. Additionally, I was the Principal Investigator on a successful competitive grant tender worth $120,000 over 2 years to investigate SNAPO (smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity and obesity) risk factors for truck drivers. In my most recent project, I worked with two Queensland bus companies and one truck company to explore innovative digital strategies to increase physical activity and improve nutrition and impact workplace health promotion policy. Recently, as a Board member, AHPA received competitive preventive health grant from the federal government worth $560,000 over 3 years. I have 61 publications including 8 books/book chapters, 4 reports and 48 peer reviewed journal articles.
LEADERSHIP: I have undertaken a number of internal leadership roles. For example, in my role as Director of Post Graduate Research (2016-2019), I oversaw 54 Confirmation of Candidature and 19 Final Seminar panels. Externally, I have national and international leadership roles with the Australian Health Promotion Association, the International Union of Health Promotion and Education and international Editorial Boards .
Personal details
Positions
- Visiting Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
public health, health promotion, settings based health promotion, school health, workplace health, qualitative research, phenomenography, participatory action research, indepth interviews, focus groups
Research field
Public health
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Health Science (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Registered Health Promotion Practitioner.
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy.
- Vice-President, Australian Health Promotion Association.
- Member, National Accreditation Organization (NAO) Management sub-committee, Australian Health Promotion Association.
- Director, South-West Pacific Regional committee, International Union for Health Promotion and Education.
- Invited member, Global Accreditation Review committee, International Union of Health Promotion and Education.
- Editorial Board, Pedagogy in Health Promotion.
- Lead Guest Editor, Special Edition Health Promotion and Workplace Culture, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Teaching
COURSES: I have coordinated many undergraduate and postgraduate units including the second year unit, PUB461: Qualitative Inquiry in Public Health in the Bachelor of Public Health and PUP038 Health Promotion 1: Paradigms and the capstone unit, HLN703 Research Project in the Masters of Public Health.
SUPERVISION: As you can see below, I supervise a range of research degree students. Please contact me if you are thinking about Higher Degree by Research in health promotion, mixed methods or qualitative research. I am more than happy to chat about your project, how to enrol and support you in the scholarship application process. My email is m.sendall@qut.edu.au
Vacation Research Experience Scholarship: I have supervised twelve (12) Vacation Research Experience Scholarship (VRES) students. Seven (7) of these students published a journal article.
Master by Coursework: I have supervised thirteen (13) Master by Coursework students. Eight (8) of these students undertook a 24 credit point project and six (6) of these students undertook 48 credit point minor thesis (titles listed here). Six (6) of these students published a journal article.
- Mothers and health promotion: Closing the gap for 100% measles immunization in North Vietnam.
- Neuroscience nurses’ attitudes towards cognitively impaired acquired head injured patients.
- Australian Women’s perceptions of enablers and barriers when instigating physical activity for better health outcomes:
- Knowledge of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine: A perspective from Australian women: A qualitative case study.
- Exploring the role of workplace health promotion to improve physical activity and nutrition in bus drivers: A cross-sectional case study.
- Exploring Facebook for workplace health promotion with bus drivers in the road transport industry: A qualitative case study.
Masters by Research: I have supervised three (3) Masters by Research degree.
- 2017 MPhil: Is it too late by eight? Recognising the protective factors of culture, education and families in building resilient Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
- Dementia Friendly Communities: Exploring characteristics of community friendly environments for those with dementia.
- 2021 MCI: Adapting and integrating elements of best practice in dancer wellness in elite adolescent pre-professional dance programmes into private dance studio contexts.
Doctoral degrees: I have supervised or am supervising fourteen (13) professional and philosophy doctorates.
- 2017 DHSc: Understanding the social cultural context of obesity in the ruralaiTauke Fiji: A participatory research approach.
- 2018 DHSc: Deciding to transfer resident to emergency department: A phenomenographic examination of decision making in residential aged care.
- DEd: Investigating Australian university students’ experiences of critical reflective learning through e-Portfolio creation and curation: A phenomenographic study.
- 2019 PhD: What is the meaning of sport for young people from refugee backgrounds? An ethnographic case study of a state high school in Brisbane, Queensland*.
- 2020 PhD: Understanding binge drinking among medical students in Viet Nam^.
- 2019 PhD: Help seeking behaviours of Bhutanese women subjected to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)^*.
- 2020 PhD: Captain of my own ship: A phenomenological exploration of middle-class, white, male baby boomers’ experiences of ageing in contemporary Western society.
- PhD: Hearing the voices of parents whose children have been in out-of-home care due to child protection concerns: Experiences with support services^.
- PhD: The impact of nutrition labelling in reducing health inequities in obesity in Nepal.
- PhD: Assessment of the influence of a digital storytelling programme on healthy lifestyle knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of overweight/obese adolescents and their parents in Sri Lanka^.
- PhD: Understanding and addressing existing (social and economic) inequalities to reduce the rate of undernutrition among pregnant adolescent women in Nepal^.
- PhD: Perceptions and knowledge of obesity among Saudi women^.
- PhD: Health promotion approach to address the practice gaps of public health nutrition policies in Sri Lanka^.
^ Scholarship recipients. * Nominated for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis.
Experience
REAL-WORLD: Most of my 'real world’ practice years were spent working in school health. During this time, I focused on my areas of special interest, Health Promoting Schools. This is where I developed my passion for the health promotion approach. I am still really excited about health promotion and this drives my commitment to teaching and learning. In this vein, my research in health promotion engages the industry to ensure sustainable change for workplace health promotion practice and policy. I work with at-risk hard-to-reach, blue collar groups, such as miners, truck drivers, bus drivers, to develop and implement real-world strategies to improve nutrition and physical activity. Additionally, I am very involved with my national and international health promotion organisations.
PREVIOUSLY: Prior to coming to QUT, I worked at the University of Queensland. At this time, I undertook a Masters of Health Science before completing my PhD here at QUT. I undertook qualitative research because I am more interested in the 'why' question. I am extremely passionate about qualitative research from a teaching and supervision perspective, and within the public health context, supervise mixed methods projects.
ENQUIRIES: Please contact me if you are thinking about studying health promotion or need a qualitative supervisor. I am more than happy to chat about potential pathways to fulfil your aspirations and help however I can. My email is m.sendall@qut.edu.au
Publications
- Sendall, M., McCosker, L., Ahmed, R. & Crane, P. (2019). Truckies' nutrition and physical activity: A cross-sectional survey in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 10(3), 145–150. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131939
- Sendall, M., McCosker, L., Crane, P., Rowland, B., Fleming, M. & Biggs, H. (2018). Using Facebook for health promotion in "hard-to-reach" truck drivers: Qualitative analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(11), 1–11. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122847
- Sendall, M., Crane, P., McCosker, L., Biggs, H. & Rowland, B. (2017). Truckies and health promotion: using the ANGELO framework to understand the workplace's role. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 10(6), 406–417. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114743
- Sendall, M., Stoneham, M., Crane, P., Fleming, M., Janda, M., Tenkate, T., Youl, P. & Kimlin, M. (2016). Outdoor workers and sun protection strategies: two case study examples in Queensland, Australia. Rural and Remote Health, 16(2), 1–14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101312
- Sendall, M., Crane, P., McCosker, L., Biggs, H., Fleming, M. & Rowland, B. (2016). Workplace interventions to improve truck drivers' health knowledge, behaviours and self-reported outcomes. Road and Transport Research, 25(1), 31–43. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98411
- Stoneham, M., Sendall, M., Crane, P., Janda, M. & Kimlin, M. (2015). Promoting sun safety in the workplace - what works? Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 32(2), 1–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94907
- Hill, M., Sendall, M. & McCosker, L. (2015). Truckies and health promotion: A 'hard-to-reach' group without a 'proper' workplace. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 31(2), 1–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94910
- Rye, S., Janda, M., Stoneham, M., Crane, P., Sendall, M., Youl, P., Tenkate, T., Baldwin, L., Perina, H., Finch, L. & Kimlin, M. (2014). Changes in outdoor workers' sun-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors: A pre-post workplace intervention. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56(9). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/77705
- Horsham, C., Auster, J., Sendall, M., Stoneham, M., Youl, P., Crane, P., Tenkate, T., Janda, M. & Kimlin, M. (2014). Interventions to decrease skin cancer risk in outdoor workers: update to a 2007 systematic review. BMC Research Notes, 7, 1–8. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66090
- Janda, M., Stoneham, M., Youl, P., Crane, P., Sendall, M., Tenkate, T. & Kimlin, M. (2014). What encourages sun protection among outdoor workers from four industries? Journal of Occupational Health, 56(1), 62–72. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65360
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Margo, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Vice President, National Executive Board, Australian Health Promotion Association.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Appointed lead Guest Editor, Special Edition of Health Behaviour, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Appointed to international Editorial Board, Pedagogy in Health Promotion.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Advisor to national road transport consortium (Woolworths, Linfox) - Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds.
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Invited to join Global Accreditation Review Committee, International Union of Health Promotion and Education.
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Appointed as Regional Director, South-West Pacific Regional committee, International Union of Health Promotion and Education.
- Type
- Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Admitted as Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Member of the Global Scientific Committee, IUHPE international conference. Rotorua, New Zealand: April, 2019.
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Winner, Vice-Chancellors Performance Award. HRD Supervision. Nominated by HL90 Professional Doctorate student.
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Director of Postgraduate Research, School, Public Health and Social Work.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Exploring the Interrelationship Between Adolescent Marriage, Agency and Nutrition Among Adolescents and Young Women in Nepal
PhD, External Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Darren Wraith, Dr Smita Nambiar-Mann
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Captain of My Own Ship (2020)
- Understanding Binge Drinking Among Medical Students in Viet Nam (2020)
- Help-Seeking Behaviours of Bhutanesse Women Subjected to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) (2019)
- What is the Meaning of Sport for Young People from Refugee Backgrounds? A Case Study of a State High School in Brisbane, Queensland (2019)
- Deciding to Transfer a Resident to the Emergency Department: A Phenomenographic Examination of Decision Making in Residential Aged Care (2018)
- Understanding the Socio-Cultural Context of Obesity in Rural iTaukei Fiji: 'A Participatory Research Approach' (2017)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Adapting and Integrating Elements of Best Practice in Dancer Wellness in Elite Adolescent Pre-Professional Dance Programmes into Private Dance Studio Contexts (2021)
- Is it Too Late by Eight? Recognising the Protective Factors of Culture, Education and Family in Raising Resilient Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children (2017)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.