Jean Tinney, BA Dip Ed DIP TEFLA MAppl Ling PhD, completed a BA in English and History and a Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne before beginning an extended period of teaching and training in Australia and a number of European countries. She specialised in teaching English for Specific purposes in the tertiary education sector, in particular in programs for overseas-qualified health professionals. Her interest in cross-cultural communication and communication in the health professions led her to complete a Masters of Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne in 1996. This included a minor study of cross-cultural perceptions of staff-resident communication in a Sydney residential aged care facility. She was also involved from 1992 until 2006 in testing and materials development for the Overseas English Test for health professionals.
Jean joined NARI in 2006 shortly after completing her PhD through the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis, based on an eight-month period of ethnographic fieldwork in two aged care facilities, explored the role of communication in sustaining sense of self and wellbeing in residents in aged care. Her research interests include communication in health care settings, staff recruitment and retention, person-centred care and older age mental health.
Current Research Projects
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Enhancing Staff-resident Communication in Residential Aged Care (Ian Potter Foundation)
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Resident Experiences of Public Sector RACS - a pilot (DH)
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An Education Program to Improve Referral to Memory Services for Older People of Asian Background Living in Melbourne (Wicking Trust)
Publications - Peer-reviewed articles
Tinney, Jean (2007). Negotiating boundaries and roles: challenges faced by the nursing home ethnographer. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 37, 2 : 202-225
Tinney, Jean (2008) Respecting the Aging Self: communication in the nursing home. Anthropology and Aging Quarterly. 29,2:47-55.
Dow, B., Lin, X., Tinney, J., Haralambous, B., Ames, D. (2011). Depression in residential homes for older people. International Psychogeriatrics (in press).
Non peer-reviewed articles
Vrantsidis, F., LoGiudice, D., Haralambous, B., Lin, X., Tinney, J., Dow, B. (2010). Development of an education program to improve referral to memory services for older people of Asian background living in Melbourne. Cultural News, 5 (1):2
Book Chapter
Dow, B., Lin, X., Tinney, J., Haralambous, B., Ames, D. (2011) Depression in Care Homes (eds. Dening, T and Milne, A). Oxford University Press, Oxford (in press).
Reports
Dowson, L., Moore, K., Tinney, J., Ledgerwood, K. (2008) Sleep in Residential Care: A Literature Review. Funded by the Aged Care Branch of the Victorian Department of Human Services.
Grypma, R., Mahajani, S., Tam, E., Hill, K., Tinney, J., Dowson, L., & Haralambous, B. (2007) Screening and Diagnostic Assessment of Non-English Speaking People with Dementia: Background paper. Report to Alzheimer’s Australia, Adelaide.
Grypma, R., Mahajani, S., Tam, E., Hill, K., Tinney, J., Dowson, L., & Haralambous, B. (2007) Screening and Diagnostic Assessment of Non-English Speaking People with Dementia: Guidelines and system recommendations for practitioners, service managers and policy makers. Report to Alzheimer’s Australia, Adelaide.
Tinney, J, Dow, B, Fearn, M, Dowson, L, Hempton, C, Hill, K, Bremner, F, de Mel, G. (2007). Best practice in person-centred health care for older Victorians. Final Report. Melbourne: Report to the Department of Human Services (Victoria).
Haralambous, B., Lin, X., Dow, B., Jones, C., Tinney, J., Bryant, C. Depression in older age: a scoping study. Report to beyondblue, 2009.
Blackberry, I., Haralambous, B., Lin X., Jeffery, P., Tinney, J, Galvin, P., Cortes, N., Dow, B. Chronic disease self-management: positive ageing. Report to the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, 2010.
Dow, B., Haralambous, B., Renehan, E., Meyer, C., Lewis, C., Lin, X., Tinney, J. Scoping study of health professional education and training in older age depression and anxiety. Report to beyondblue, 2010
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