| Professor Jane Farmer pictured with Professor Patrick Dawson who assi... Professor Jane Farmer pictured with Professor Patrick Dawson who assisted in Professor Farmer’s special visit to UOW |
Scottish Visiting Professor conducts UOW seminar
30 Aug 2007 | Renee Criddle
The University of Wollongong is playing host to a Visiting Professor whose current work is focused strongly on rural healthcare redesign.
Professor Jane Farmer, the UHI Millennium Institute Chair of Rural Health Policy and Management at the Centre for Rural Health in Inverness, Scotland, today (30 August) presented a special seminar as part of her visit to Wollongong.
She has a background in information science, management and health services research.
Professor Farmer has written extensively on the social and managerial aspects of rural healthcare provision and specialises in rural/urban and international comparative work using mixed research methods.
Her work has considered rural/urban differences in public expectations of health services, patient demand and approaches to health care and the work of healthcare teams. This work has led to a strong interest around the role of health and other services in rural communities in an era of changing demography, globalisation and environmental concerns.
Professor Farmer’s current work is focused strongly on rural healthcare redesign -- with a concern to increase, rather than deplete, rural community capacity -- and bringing together healthcare stakeholders (public, patients, health professionals, managers and policymakers) in redesign decisions.
Her visit to Australia was assisted by an international expert in the area of organisational change, Professor Patrick Dawson, who last year accepted a part-time professorial position at the University of Wollongong.
The holder of the Salvesen Chair and Head of the University of Aberdeen Business School, Professor Dawson has been closely tied to UOW's School of Management and Marketing.
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