Adjunct Prof Stephanie Short - Law and Justice Research Centre

Adjunct Professor

DipPhty (CCHS, Syd), BA Hons 1 (UNSW), MSc (Lond), PhD (UNSW)

Contact:

Room: C310 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 313 85103
Fax: (07) 313 84253
Email: stephanie.short@qut.edu.au

Stephanie Short joined the Law and Justice Research Centre in the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology as an Adjunct Professor in September 2007.

Adjunct Professor Short leads the health governance program within the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL), a joint initiative of the United Nations University (UNU), Griffith University and the QUT Faculty of Law in association with the Australian National University.

IEGL, under the directorship of Professor Charles Sampford, is one of the United Nations University’s 22 research institutes - each with a specific mandate to pursue research of special relevance to the United Nations. It brings together the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, the Centre for International and Public Law at ANU and the Law and Justice Research Centre at QUT.

The Institute's vision is to be a globally networked resource for the development of values-based governance through research and capacity building. It aims to engage other academic, non-government organisations (NGOs), government, business and multilateral institutions and networks to improve governance and build institutional integrity in governments, corporations, NGOs and international institutions. IEGL will become the heart of UNU research into Law and QUT is playing a major role in that work. Its work includes cross-disciplinary theorising and empirical work that brings together the normative sciences of ethics and law with the social sciences of international relations, political science, economics, sociology and criminology.

Stephanie Short convenes HealthGov, a division of the Australian Research Council Governance Research Network (ARC GovNet) and is a member of Governing Council of the International Consortium for Governance Research on the Health Workforce. She is also convenor of the forthcoming HealthGov Conference, ‘Effective Governance of the Health Professions in Australia’, to be held in Brisbane, 10—11 December 2007.

Adjunct Professor Short worked as a physiotherapist in NSW and Queensland before completing studies in Sociology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney and at Bedford College, the University of London.

She was the Foundation Professor of Public Health at Griffith University, 2003-7, and held significant administrative responsibilities during this period, as Head of the School of Public Health, 2004-6, Dean Teaching and Learning for the Health Group, 2005-6, and as Director of the Queensland Centre for Public Health in 2006. She was a senior lecturer in the School of Public Health & Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, 1992-2003, and prior to this worked as an academic at the University of Wollongong, the Newcastle College of Advanced Education (the University of Newcastle), and at the University of Sydney.

Adjunct Professor Short’s research concentrates on conceptualising and researching the social relations of health care, health care systems and public policy: Sociological perspectives; health workforce governance; good doctors, safer patients and improved access.

Adjunct Professor Short has supervised 13 PhDs, 1 MD, 11 master’s projects and 3 honour’s student theses to completion, through the Universities of UNSW, Sydney, Wollongong and Griffith University. In addition she has provided distinguished service as a lecturer to numerous Universities, including the University of New England, Southern Cross University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney and the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. From 1992 to 2003 Dr Short provided courses in ‘Sociology, Ethics and Health and ‘Health Care Systems’ to students enrolled in the UNSW Master of Health Administration program through the School of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Hong Kong. She has held visiting academic appointments at the University of Sydney, Salford University, the University of Toronto, the Bulgarian National Academy of Medicine and the American University in Bulgaria.

She has published over 70 refereed journal articles, published proceedings, chapters in books and reports. Her books include Health Care & Public Policy: An Australian Analysis (with George Palmer, 3rd edition in 2000), and Sociology for Nurses; An Australian Introduction (with Sandra Speedy and Evelyn Sharman, 2nd edition, 1998). She also co-edited the book, Goodbye Normal Gene: Confronting the Genetic Revolution (with Gabrielle O’Sullivan and Evelyn Sharman in 1999). With co-author Emeritus Professor George Palmer she has a contract with Palgrave Macmillan to complete the 4th edition of Health Care & Public Policy for publication in 2009.

In addition, she has conducted evaluations and other consultancies for the Commonwealth Department of Health, Queensland Health, the New South Wales Department of Health, the Australian Community Health Association, the Logan Area Division of General Practice and the National Prescribing Service.

Research interests:

• Operationalising Concepts
• Methodological Pluralism
• Multidisciplinary Evaluation & Policy Analysis
• Health Workforce Governance

Select Publications:

Short, S. D., Toneva, Z. and Hadjiev, V. (2007) ‘On the Inequitable Impact of Universal Health Insurance: The Experience of Bulgaria in Transition, Health Sociology Review, Volume 16, No. 2, pp. 130-145.

Aldrich, R., Zwi, A. and Short, SD (2007) ‘Advance Australia Fair: Social democratic and conservative politicians' discourses concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their health 1972-2001’, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 64, pp. 125-137.

Liang, M. Short, S D and Brown, C. (2006) ‘Senior health managers in the new era: Changing roles and responsibilities in the 1990s and early 21st century’, The Journal of Health Administration Education, Vol. 23, No. 3, Summer, pp. 281-301.

Liang, M., Short, S D., Howard, P. F., and Brown, C. (2006) ‘Centralised control and devolved responsibilities: Personal experiences of senior health executives on the implementation of the area health management model in New South Wales, 1990-1999, Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 44-50.

Boxall, A and Short, SD (2006) Political economy and population health: is Australia exceptional? Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 3:6. (Biomed Central Journal)

Liang, M, Short, S D and Lawrence, W. (2005) ‘Healthcare Reform in New South Wales, 1986-1999: Using the literature to predict the impact on senior health executives’, Australian Health Review, August, Vol 29, No 3, pp. 285-291.

Guy, L. and Short, S.D. (2005) ‘On the significance of type of work and social status on the rehabilitation of workers with chronic pain’, Health Sociology Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, 77-83.

De Voe, J.E. and Short, S.D. (2003) A Shift in the Historical Trajectory of Medical Dominance: The Case of Medibank and the Australian Doctors’ Lobby, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 57, pp. 343-353.

Grants Awarded:

• Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Principal Investigator, Public Health Education and Research Program, ‘Capacity Building for Indigenous Health at Griffith University’.
• Queensland Health, Principal Investigator, the Princess Alexandra Hospital Health Services District ‘Capacity Building for Community Rehabilitation Education and Training at Griffith University’.
• Queensland Health, Health Promotion Queensland grant, Chief Investigator, ‘Growing Years’.
• Griffith University, Community Partnerships Project, Chief Investigator, ‘Tiny Tots Teeth in Child Care Centres’,
• ARC Research Network, Chief Investigator, ‘Sources of Insecurity: Local, National and Global’ Convenor: Prof PW James (RMIT)
• ARC Research Network, Chief Investigator, ‘Developing a multidisciplinary international research network focussed on maximising the social and health benefits to Australia of human genetic technologies’ Convenor: Prof DR Chalmers (U Tas)
• ARC Research Network, Chief Investigator, eRAM: Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Convenor: Prof. MR Moore (UQ)

Membership of Professional & Academic Organisations:

• Fellow, Australian College of Health Service Executives
• Registered Physiotherapist, NSW Physiotherapists’ Registration Board (Registration No. 51061). Previously registered in Qld.
• Member, Australian Sociological Association
• Member, Public Health Association of Australia

Community Involvement:

• Associate Member, Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia

Supervision of Postgraduate Research Scholarship Recipients:

• Principal Supervisor, Queensland Department of Premier & Cabinet Smart State Postgraduate Research Scholarship ‘An Exploration of the Factors Contributing to the Development and Uptake of an Oral Health Role by Rural and Remote Indigenous Health Workers’. Scholar: Dr David Walker.
• Principal Supervisor, National Health & Medical Research Council Training Scholarship ‘Process Evaluation of the Training of Aboriginal Health Workers in Rural Communities in Basic Oral Health Care’. Scholar: Dr David Walker.
• Associate Supervisor, National Health & Medical Research Council Public Health Scholarship ‘ Conceptions of Risk in clinical and policy decision making as applied to childhood food anaphylaxis’. Scholar: Dr Wendy Hu.
• Principal Supervisor, National Health & Medical Research Council Training Scholarship for Aboriginal Health ‘An analysis of Commonwealth health policy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, 1973-2000’. Scholar: Dr Rosemary Aldrich.