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DR PRISCILLA PYETT



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Work: 03 8344 0885
Fax: 03 8344 0824
Room: 439
Level: 04
Building: 237 Bouverie Street
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Collaborative reserach methodology in sociology and public health working with disadvantaged populations. Aboriginal health research. Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Health Science Deakin University 19-May-2000
Bachelor of Arts Monash University

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
PUBLIC HEALTH AUSTRALIA FELLOWSHIP Chief Investigator NHMRC Public Health Fellowship (Australia) 01/01/2000
The production of Aboriginal art in Victoria and its relationship to the health and well-being of the Koori community Principal Supervisor CRC FOR ABORIGINAL HEALTH CRC for Aboriginal and Tropical Health Scholarship Top-Up funds (CRCATH) 22/01/2004
What is the impact of Aboriginal Art on the Victorian Koori community's health and well-being? Principal Supervisor VIC HEALTH Public Health PhD Research Scholarships (VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION) 01/02/2004
Developing sustainable aboriginal health research practice Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH Senior/Public Health Research Fellowships (VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION) 01/05/2004
Culturally appropriate general practice services for Aboriginal Australians Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL CHILD HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AND WELL BEING SURVEY Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES 13/06/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

VicHealth Public Health Fellowsip 2004-2009
NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2000-2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Engaging with Aboriginal communities in an urban context: some practical suggestions for public health researchers
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 51-54
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Book review: Researching the vulnerable: a guide to sensitive research methods, P Liamputtong
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Qualitative Research Journal
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 80-82
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  • Challenging our own practices in Indigenous health promotion and research
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Health Promotion Journal of Australia
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 179-183
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  • Closing the gap in sociology
    Year: 2008
    Journal: NEXUS: the TASA Newsletter
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1
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  • Healthy pregnancies, health babies for Koori communities: some of the issues around alcohol and pregnancy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 30-31
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  • Oestrogen treatment for tall stature in girls: estimating the effect on height and the error in height prediction
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Clinical Endocrinology
    Volume: 68
    Page numbers: 926-929
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  • Promoting collaborative and participatory research with disadvantaged communities
    Year: 2008
    Journal: In Touch: Newsletter of the Public Health Association of Australia
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 6-7
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  • Reflecting on a role for sociology in Indigenous health
    Year: 2008
    Journal: NEXUS: the TASA Newsletter
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 11-12
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Working at the Interface of Research and Practice: The value and challenges of community liaison officer roles
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Re-imagining Sociology
    Conference Publication: Re-imagining Sociology
    Publisher: The Australian Sociological Association(Melbourne)
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Reports

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Community development interventions to improve Aboriginal health: building an evidence base
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Health Sociology Review
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 304-314
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  • Healthy pregnancies, healthy babies for Koori communities: some of the issues around alcohol and pregnancy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 30-32
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Community development and empowerment — a review of interventions to improve Aboriginal health


    Year: 2007
    Event name: Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health Workshop
    Conference Publication: Beyond bandaids: exploring the underlying social determinants of Aboriginal health: papers from the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health Workshop, July 2004
    Page numbers: 165-180
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health(Darwin)
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Reports

  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: a literature review for the 'health pregnancies, healthy babies for Koori communities' project
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Premier's Drug Prevention Council, Department of Human Services(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in ethical review of health research
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 291-292
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  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in the ethical review of health research
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 22-24
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  • Australian sociology engages with Indigenous issues
    Year: 2006
    Journal: NEXUS: the TASA Newsletter
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 14
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  • Concern about tall stature during adolescence and depression in later life
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 91
    Page numbers: 145-152
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  • Editorial: Beyond the margins/ beyond marginality
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Sociology
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 341-345
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  • Learning from a successful partnership between mainstream and Indigenous organizations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 4-5, 33
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Using hormone treatment to reduce the adult height of tall girls: are women satisfied with the decision in later years?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 1629-1639
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Reports

  • The making of a great relationship: review of a healthy partnership between mainstream and Indigenous organisations
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation(Melbourne)
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  • Victorian Aboriginal ethics project report
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Issues in sociology: where is the sociology of Inidgenous social issues? Please explain?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: NEXUS: the TASA Newsletter
    Volume: Oct 2004
    Page numbers: 9-10
    Publisher: The Australian Sociology Association(St Lucia)
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  • Oestrogen treatment to reduce the height of tall girls: long-term effects on fertility.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 364
    Issue: 9444
    Page numbers: 1513-1518
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Difficult relations: sex work, love and intimacy


    Year: 2003
    Book: Family: critical concepts in sociology
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • A Commentary on the NHMRC 'Draft Values and Ethics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research'
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Monash Bioethics Review
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 8-19
    Publisher: Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics(Melbourne)
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  • Validation of Qualitative Research in the 'Real World'
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Qualitative Health Research
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1170-1179
    Publisher: Sage Publications(Thousand Oaks)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Teenage Mothers: 'It's not what people think; it's how you feel yourself'
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Echo: Journal of the Victorian Home Economics & Textile Teachers' Association
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 15-23
    Publisher: Victorian Home Economics & Textile Teachers' Association(Melbourne)
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  • Towards reconciliation in Indigenous Health Research: The responsibilities of the non-Indigenous researcher
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Contemporary Nurse
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 56-65
    Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
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  • Working Together to Reduce Health Inequalities: Reflections on a collaborative participatory approach to health research
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 332-336
    Publisher: Public Health Association of Australia(Curtin)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Innovation and compromise: Responsibility and reflexivity in research with vulnerable groups
    Year: 2001
    Book: Technologies and Health. Critical compromises
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • I know I am doing a good job: canonical and autobiographical narratives of teenage mothers
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Culture, Health and Sexuality
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 279-294
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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