Assoc Prof Colin MacDougall

Colin MacDougall teaching in Hamburg
Position/s:Associate Professor of Public Health
School of Medicine
 Principal Fellow (Honorary) McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
School of Medicine
 Executive Member
Southgate Institute
Phone: +61 8 72218412
Email:
Location: Health Sciences Building (2.14)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

I have a strong attachment to Flinders, having studied here and taught and researched in Public Health since 1990. My practice background includes clinical experience as a psychologist, the founding director of a community based service for children and families and as a chief planning officer in a health system. I have taught child and educational psychology and public health at tertiary level. My academic appointment involves teaching public health at master's level and in the medical course; research in the social studies of childhood, policy and practice and more recently the relationship between public health and climate change. An important part of my work is course and topic administration, and service to the profession and community. I am an Executive Member of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity and also have an honorary appointment at the University of Melbourne.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) MA (Flinders) Ph.D (Adelaide)

Honours, awards and grants

Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award (Teaching Team) 2000
Visiting Expert in the New Zealand Social Science Research Capacity Building program 2007

For current research projects please see http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/public-health/research/current-projects/

Key responsibilities

Executive Committee, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University http://flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/southgate/

Course Co-ordinator, Doctor of Public Health, Flinders University http://www.flinders.edu.au/courses/postgrad/dr-publichealth/
Graduate Programs in Public Health Course Committee
Workforce Development portfolio, Discipline of Public Health
http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/public-health/

Theme Leader, Health Professions and Society, Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/calendar/vol2/ug/BMBS.htm
Northern Territory Medical Program Working Party
Medical Course Committee

Doctor of Education Course Committee and Admissions Committee, Flinders University

Principal Fellow (Honorary) Jack Brockhoff Child Wellbeing Program
McCaughey Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Melbourne http://www.mccaugheycentre.unimelb.edu.au/research/brockhoff

Co-Convenor, Child Health Special Interest Group, Public Health Association of Australia http://www.phaa.net.au/childHealth.php

WIth Professor Helen Keleher from Monash University I am working on the third edition, to be published in 2011, of Helen Keleher and Colin MacDougall (Eds) Understanding Health: a Social Determinants Approach, published by Oxford University Press in Melbourne.
http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/health_sciences/9780195551297

Teaching

Teaching interests

My teaching interests revolve around combining developing knowledge and understanding with reflection on practice with the aim of contributing to a fairer, more sustainable world.  This fits the views of Paulo Freire who, writing in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, said that "Education either functions as an instrument ...to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

I have spent time developing new curricula and courses: eg Master of Primary Health Care; Doctor of Public Health; Master of Remote Health; Health, Professions and Society in the medical course, work with the MPH at University of Western Cape, South Africa; mental health courses jointly with Flinders and University of Queensland and a School of Public Health (with an MPH) at Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Nepal. In all these endeavours I have worked to combine theory and practice, drawing on my own primary health care practice background. Crucially, this has involved thinking carefully on the pedagogy and practice of distance education: from print and post to fax to email to web and now to phones and wireless devices. 

Over the years I have improved my skills by working with the (then) Australian Network of Academic Public Health Institutions on joint projects, funded teaching initiatives and in professional development events.More recently I have trained in Problem Based Learning and have learned how to develop curriculum using well defined outcomes to drive curriculum to be more socially responsible and engaging for students.In the last few years I have taught at universities in France, Germany and Poland.

Topic Coordinator:

Topic Lecturer:

Research and supervision

Research expertise

  • Public health and health services

Research interests

My research is inspired by the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health: "The toxic combination of bad policies, economics and politics is, in a large measure. responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible. Social injustice is killing people on a large scale."
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/thecommission/finalreport/en/index.html

I try to play my part in researching social justice in three interlocking research areas:

  • the new social studies of childhood which, underpinned by a children's rights approach, seek to involve children in research, policy and practice decisions that affect their lives - with a developing interest in climate change and disasters;
  • policy that promotes equitable improvements in health and wellbeing;
  • the intersection of health and ecology to explore equitable public health responses to climate change: in particular water/drought and bushfires.

My research base is the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders. Here, I take part in interdisciplinary research collaboration and development. http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/southgate/about/about.cfm

For my work with childhood and bushfires in Victoria, I have a productive partnership with the School of Population Health at Melbourne University as Principal Fellow (Honorary) in the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program in the McCaughey Centre. http://www.mccaugheycentre.unimelb.edu.au/research/brockhoff

I am currently working with researchers at Flinders University, Melbourne University, University of Magdeburg-Stendal in Germany, Universitaire de Rennes 2 in France, University of Montreal in Canada and Glasgow Caledonian University.My research is always in teams and I enjoy working with people with the skills, values and humanity to be reflective and critical and, when necessary, to extend or develop research methods to answer complex or difficult research questions.

Publications

Book chapters
Keleher, H., MacDougall, C.J. and Murphy, B. (2007). Approaching health promotion. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-13.
MacDougall, C.J., Keleher, H. and Murphy, B. (2007). Re-imagining health promotion. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 355-360.
MacDougall, C.J. and De Leeuw, E. (2007). Healthy Public Policy. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 199-215.
Johnson, A.E. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Reflective Practice. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Victoria: Oxford University Press, pp. 244-251.
Popay, J. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Lay knowledge. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 69-80.
Laris, P. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Organisational Capacity. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 170-183.
MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Reframing physical activity. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 326-342.
Refereed journal articles
Nansen, B., Chakraborty, K., Gibbs, L., Vetere, F. and MacDougall, C. (2012). "You do the math": Mathletics and the play of online learning. New Media and Society, 14(7), pp.1216-1235. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444812442926.
Nansen, B., Chakraborty, K., Gibbs, L., MacDougall, C. and Vetere, F. (2012). Children and Digital Wellbeing in Australia: Online regulation, conduct and competence. Journal of Children and Media, 6(2), pp.237-254. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2011.619548.
King, D., Lane, A.P., MacDougall, C. and Greenhill, J. (2011). Resilience in farm families: A constructivist perspective. Public Health Bulletin South Australia, 8(1), pp.15-19. [online]. Available from: http://www.health.sa.gov.au/pehs/publications/Public%20Health%20Bulletin%20Vol8%20No1-phcc-March2011.pdf.

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Books
Keleher, H. and MacDougall, C. (2011). Understanding Health. 3rd ed. Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, ed. Australia: Oxford University Press.
Baum, F.E., Ziersch, A.M., Zhang, G., Putland, C., Palmer, C., MacDougall, C.J., et al. (2007). People and Places: Urban Location, Social Capital and Health. Bedford Park, S. Aust.: Flinders University Press.
Baum, F.E., MacDougall, C.J., Putland, C., Swerissen, H., Lewis, V., Weeks, A., et al. (2003). Thinking populations?: population health and the primary health care workforce. Adelaide, S.A: Inprint Design.
Book chapters
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Competence, equite et representations du lieu et de l'espace chez les enfants. In Presses Universitaires de Rennes, ed. Enfants et jeunes dans les espaces du quotidien. France: Reseau des Universites Ouest Atlantique, pp. 158-171. [online]. Available from: http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.univ-rennes2.fr/service-communication/enfants-jeunes-dans-espaces-quotidien&ei=84JHT.
Keleher, H. and MacDougall, C.J. (2009). Understanding the determinants of health. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, ed. Understanding Health:  A Determinants Approach. South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, pp. 41-58.
Keleher, H. and MacDougall, C.J. (2009). Understanding health. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, ed. Understanding Health:  A Determinants Approach. South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-16.
MacDougall, C.J. (2009). Understanding twenty-first-century childhood. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, ed. Understanding Health:  A Determinants Approach. South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, pp. 287-307.
Johnson, A.E. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Reflective Practice. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Victoria: Oxford University Press, pp. 244-251.
Keleher, H., MacDougall, C.J. and Murphy, B. (2007). Approaching health promotion. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-13.
Laris, P. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Organisational Capacity. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 170-183.
MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Reframing physical activity. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 326-342.
MacDougall, C.J. and De Leeuw, E. (2007). Healthy Public Policy. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 199-215.
MacDougall, C.J., Keleher, H. and Murphy, B. (2007). Re-imagining health promotion. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 355-360.
Popay, J. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Lay knowledge. In Helen Keleher, Colin MacDougall, Berni Murphy, ed. Understanding Health Promotion. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 69-80.
Refereed journal articles
Nansen, B., Chakraborty, K., Gibbs, L., MacDougall, C. and Vetere, F. (2012). Children and Digital Wellbeing in Australia: Online regulation, conduct and competence. Journal of Children and Media, 6(2), pp.237-254. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2011.619548.
Nansen, B., Chakraborty, K., Gibbs, L., Vetere, F. and MacDougall, C. (2012). "You do the math": Mathletics and the play of online learning. New Media and Society, 14(7), pp.1216-1235. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444812442926.
Astley, C., MacDougall, C., Davidson, P. and Chew, D. (2011). Lost in Translation: Health Resource Variability in the Achievement of Optimal Performance and Clinical Outcome. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 4(5), pp.512-520. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.110.960229.
Baum, F.E., Putland, C., MacDougall, C.J.M. and Ziersch, A.M. (2011). Differing levels of social capital and mental health in suburban communities in Australia: did social planning contribute to the difference? Urban Policy and Research, 29(1), pp.37-57. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2010.542607.
King, D., Lane, A.P., MacDougall, C. and Greenhill, J. (2011). Resilience in farm families: A constructivist perspective. Public Health Bulletin South Australia, 8(1), pp.15-19. [online]. Available from: http://www.health.sa.gov.au/pehs/publications/Public%20Health%20Bulletin%20Vol8%20No1-phcc-March2011.pdf.
Willenberg, L.J., Ashbolt, R., HOLLAND, D., Gibbs, L., MacDougall, C.J.M., Garrard, J., et al. (2010). Increasing school playground activity: A mixed methods study combining environmental measures and children's perspectives. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 13(2), pp.210-216. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jsams.2009.02.011.
Fereday, J., MacDougall, C.J., Spizzo, M., Darbyshire, P. and Schiller, W. (2009). "There"s nothing I can't do - I just put my mind to anything and I can do it': a qualitative analysis of how children with chronic disease and their parents account for and manage physical activity. BMC Paediatrics, 9(1), pp.1-16. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-9-1.
Newman, L.A., MacDougall, C.J. and Baum, F.E. (2009). Australian children's accounts of the closure of a car factory: global restructuring and local impacts. Community, Work and Family, 12(2), pp.143-158. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13668800902778934.
Greenhill, J.A., King, D.S., Lane, A.P. and MacDougall, C.J. (2009). Understanding resilience in South Australian farm families. Rural Society: The Journal of Research Into Rural and Regional Social Issues in Australia and New Zealand, 19(4), pp.318-325.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2009). What are our boundaries and where can we play?  Perspectives from eight-to-ten-year-old Australian metropolitan and rural children. Early Child Development and Care, 179(2), pp.189-204. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004430802667021.
O'Dwyer, L.A., Baum, F.E., Kavanagh, A. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Do area-based interventions to reduce health inequalities work?  A systematic review of evidence. Critical Public Health, 17(4), pp.317-335. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581590701729921.
Ziersch, A.M., Putland, C., Palmer, C., MacDougall, C.J. and Baum, F.E. (2007). Neighbourhood Life, Social Capital and Perceptions of Safety in the Western Suburbs of Adelaide. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 42(4), pp.549-562.
Baum, F.E., MacDougall, C.J. and Smith, D. (2006). Participatory action research. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(10), pp.854-857. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2004.028662.
Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C.J. and Schiller, W. (2005). Multiple methods in qualitative research with children: more insight or just more? Qualitative Research, 5(4), pp.417-436. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794105056921.
Darbyshire, P., Schiller, W. and MacDougall, C.J. (2005). Extending new paradigm childhood research: meeting the challenge of including younger children. Early Child Development and Care, 175(6), pp.467-472. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004430500131247.
Ziersch, A.M., Baum, F.E., MacDougall, C.J. and Putland, C. (2005). Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health. Social Science and Medicine, 60(1), pp.71-86. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.027.
Gill, T.K., MacDougall, C.J. and Taylor, A. (2004). Adult perceptions of children's physical activity and overweight. ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 51(1), pp.21-25.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2004). We have to live in the future. Early Child Development and Care, 174(4), pp.369-387. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0300443032000153426.
MacDougall, C.J. (2003). Learning from differences between ordinary and expert theories of health and physical activity. Critical Public Health, 13(4), pp.381-397. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581590310001615907.
Poudel-Tandukar, K., Poudel, K.C. and MacDougall, C.J. (2003). Factors influencing women's use of health services for sexually transmitted infections in eastern Nepal. Australian Health Review, 26(1), pp.116-123.
Litchfield, R. and MacDougall, C.J. (2002). Professional issues for physiotherapists in family-centred and community-based settings. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, 48(2), pp.105-112. [online]. Available from: http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=87058603;res=MEDITEXT.
MacDougall, C.J., Non-Flinders Author, and Non-Flinders Author, . (2002). Supportive environments for physical activity and the local government agenda: a South Australian example. Australian Health Review, 25(2), pp.175-181.
MacDougall, C.J. and Fudge, E. (2001). Planning and recruiting the sample for focus groups and in-depth interviews. Qualitative Health Research, 11(1), pp.117-126.
Journal articles
Jolley, G.M., Baum, F.E., Bentley, M.W., Hurley, C.J., Johnson, A.E., Lawless, A.P., et al. (2006). Pharmaceutical ads in ANZJPH. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 30(6), pp.580-580.
MacDougall, C.J. (2001). Thoughts on barriers and enablers for incorporating ordinary theorising into the community participation in health debate. Australian Health Review, 24(4), pp.30-33.
Duffy, J.M., Ask, A. and MacDougall, C.J. (2001). Concurrent opioid dependence and mental health problems: a review of the issues for Australian general practice. Australian Health Review, 24(4), pp.188-196.
Conference publications
Edwards, A., Brebner, C.M., McCormack, P. and MacDougall, C. (2012). How parents of children with ASD make decisions about which intervention approaches to access: an introduction. In Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Hobart 2012. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Hobart 2012.
Baum, F., Laris, P., Fisher, I., Newman, L. and MacDougall, C. (2012). Australian Health Ministers' perspectives on the politics of social determinants of health and equity. In Population Health Congress. Population Health Congress.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Ecology, Mental Health and the Politics of Water At the Dry End of the Driest State in Australia. In The Route to Restoration - Third International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and The Desertification. The Route to Restoration - Third International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and The Desertification.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Ecology and the politics of water at the dry end of Australia. In PHAA 40th Annual Conference. Adelaide Conference Centre.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Culture, gender and place in negotiations between parents and children about independent mobility: challenging new paradigms in childhood research. In 16th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training. Online Educa Berlin: 16th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Critical reflection on the development of a socially accountable medical curriculum. In Global Community Engaged Medical Education Muster 2010. Barossa Valley, South Australia, Adelaide.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Fire Ecology, Climate Change and Local Visual Sociology in Australia. In The Route to Restoration - Third International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and The Desertification. The Route to Restoration - Third International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and The Desertification.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Policy implication of listening to South Australian Farmers' views about an ecological and social catastrophe. Ecological, downstream or a technological fix? In 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion. Geneva, Switzerland. [online]. Available from: http://www.iuhpeconference.net/downloads/en/Programme/PDFs/Macdougall-Colin.pps.pdf.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Gendered spaces, social structures and independence for 21st Century children. In PHAA 40th Annual Conference. Adelaide Conference Centre.
Roe, M. and MacDougall, C.J.M. (2010). Introduction and Framework. In Emerging Spaces:  New Possibilities in Critical Times. Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association 2010 Conference.
MacDougall, C.J.M., Negev, M. and Davidovitch, N. (2010). Workshop: Ecological models to help communities suffering from anthropogenic water shortages. In The Route to Restoration: Third International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and The Desertification. Sede Boqer, Israel.
MacDougall, C.J.M., Greenhill, J.A. and Clarke, R. (2010). Fire, water climate change and health promotion Workshop. In PHAA 40th Annual Conference. Adelaide Conference Centre.
MacDougall, C.J.M., Gibbs, L. and Clarke, R. (2010). A local visual sociology of devastating Australian bushfires. In PHAA 40th Annual Conference. PHAA 40th Annual Conference.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2009). Symposium IV/22: Diverse settings, practices and solutions: children's perspectives from three australian research studies. In 19th EECERA Annual Conference. 19th EECERA Annual Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.lefuret.org/19th%20EECERA/Accueil_19th_eecera.html.
Gibbs, L., MacDougall, C.J.M., BLOCK, K., Priest, N.C. and Waters, E. (2009). Disasters we have had!?: The importance of place when interviewing children. In 9th European Sociological Association Conference. 9th European Sociological Association Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.esa9thconference.com/?lop=.
MacDougall, C.J., Newman, L.A. and Baum, F.E. (2009). The global financial crisis and the closure of car factories:  what can we learn from Australian children's accounts? In Diversities in early childhood education: 19th EECERA Annual Conference. 19th EECERA Annual Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.lefuret.org/19th%20EECERA/EECERA2009Programme.pdf.
MacDougall, C.J.M. (2009). Call for participation in school THEMATIC. In Invited Address. School theme "Images and sounds in the study of relationship to space (ISERE)". [online]. Available from: http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle12737.html&ei=7-yqS9D4GsuIkAXq1JWbDQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=res.
Gibbs, L., BLOCK, K., MacDougall, C.J.M., Gold, L., Davis, E., HOLLAND, D., et al. (2009). Hearing Children's voices beyond the adult influence. In 9th European Sociological Association Conference. 9th European Sociological Association Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.esa9thconference.com/?lop=.
Schiller, W. and MacDougall, C.J.M. (2009). Why Sam needs a cricketing dog and other stories: Child and family perspectives on play, place and space in metropolitan and remote Australia. In 19th EECERA Annual Conference. 19th EECERA Annual Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.lefuret.org/19th%20EECERA/Accueil_19th_eecera.html.
MacDougall, C.J.M., Newman, L.A. and Baum, F.E. (2009). Health and Social Impacts of Redundancy on Workers' Children and Families. In 19th EECERA Annual Conference. 19th EECERA Annual Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.lefuret.org/19th%20EECERA/Accueil_19th_eecera.html.
Gill, T.K., Ward, P.R. and MacDougall, C.J. (2008). Prevalence and demographic characteristics associated with musculoskeletal conditions among South Australian adults. In A global world - practical action for health and well-being. Population Health Congress 2008.
Gill, T., MacDougall, C.J. and Ward, P.R. (2008). Risk and protective factors associated with musculoskeletal health in South Australia. In A global world - practical action for health and well-being: population health congress 2008. A global world - practical action for health and well-being: population health congress 2008.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2007). Through children's eyes: The good, the bad and the ugly about play and sport. In Program and Abstracts: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Be Active  '07.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2007). How does theory help us to understand how to translate into policy findings about children's perspectives on place, space and physical activity? In Programme of the 8th European Sociological Association Conference: Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society: 8th European Sociological Association Conference. pp. 70-70.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2007). How children link: Chronic disease and sport in schools and community. In Program and Abstracts: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Be Active  '07.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2007). A case study of research with children in a remote South Australian community. In Program and Abstracts: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Be Active  '07.
MacDougall, C.J., Keleher, H. and Murphy, B. (2007). New approaches and metaphors for 21st Century health promotion. In Australian Health Promotion Association 17th National Conference. Grass Roots to Global Action: Health Promotion in Challenging Environments. pp. 128-128.
MacDougall, C.J., Darbyshire, P. and Schiller, W. (2007). Networks connecting schools & sport: From a local perspective. In Program and Abstracts: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Be Active  '07.
Fereday, J., Spizzo, M., Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C.J. and Schiller, W. (2007). How do children link chronic disease and physical activity? In Australian Health Promotion Association 17th National Conference. Grass Roots to Global Action: Health Promotion in Challenging Environments. pp. 99-99.
Baum, F.E., MacDougall, C.J. and Putland, C. (2007). Differing Levels of Social Capital in Suburban Communities: Does Good Social Planning Make the Difference? In Program of the 19th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion & Health Education. 19th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion & Health Education.
Baum, F.E., MacDougall, C.J. and Putland, C. (2007). Can infrastructure and social planning improve social capital in low socio-economic areas? In Program & Abstracts 38th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference. Alice 2007 Reality Check: Inequities & Health - Tackling the Differentials. pp. 31-31.
MacDougall, C.J., Spizzo, M., Fereday, J., Darbyshire, P. and Schiller, W. (2007). How do parents manage chronic disease and physical activity with their children? In Program & Abstracts 38th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference. Alice 2007 Reality Check: Inequities & Health - Tackling the Differentials. pp. 44-44.
Ziersch, A.M., Baum, F.E., Putland, C. and MacDougall, C.J. (2007). Local neighbourhood involvement in four socio-economically contrasting areas: What does it mean for community-based practice? In Australian Health Promotion Association 17th National Conference. Grass Roots to Global Action: Health Promotion in Challenging Environment. pp. 123-123.
Newman, L.A., MacDougall, C.J., Jolley, G.M., Baum, F.E. and Ziersch, A.M. (2007). Health and social impacts of redundancy on workers' children and families. In Program & Abstracts 38th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference. Alice 2007 Reality Check: Inequities & Health - Tackling the Differentials.
MacDougall, C.J. (2006). Equity, policy and children's physical activity. In Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity: 4th International Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health: Program and Abstract book. Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity - 4th International Conference of the ISEH. [online]. Available from: http://www.iseqh.org/docs/BkOfAbstracts2006.pdf.
MacDougall, C.J. and Laris, P. (2006). Reorienting public services: do we add values or suffer from Obsessive Reorganisation Disorder? In Tackling the determinants of health: 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference: Program and Abstracts. Tackling the Determinants of Health: 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference. pp. 44-44.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W.E., Darbyshire, P. and Backett-Milburn, K. (2006). Re-orienting public services in response to children's perspectives on place, space and physical activity. In Tackling the determinants of health: 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference: Program and Abstracts. Tackling the Determinants of Health: 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference. pp. 36-36.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W.E., Darbyshire, P. and Morrow, V. (2006). Dialogues using photovoice to involve Australian children aged 3-13 in research. In Tackling the Determinants of Health: 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference: Program and Abstracts. Tackling the Determinants of Health: 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conference. pp. 65-65.
MacDougall, C.J., Olds, T., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2005). Combining qualitative and quantitative research within an interpretive paradigm: insights with confidence. In EECERA 15th Annual Conference. EECERA 15th Annual Conference.
MacDougall, C.J., Olds, T., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2005). Combining qualitative and quantitative research with children to evaluate potentially controversial physical interventions. In PHAA 36th Annual Conference. PHAA 36th Annual Conference.
MacDougall, C.J., Olds, T., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2005). Combining qualitative and quantitative research to develop and evaluate physical activity interventions with children. In Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport: Promoting innovation, measuring success. 2005 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport.
Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C.J. and Schiller, W. (2005). Multiple methods in qualitative research with children: More insight, or just more? In 6th Child & Family Policy Conference. 6th Child & Family Policy Conference.
Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C.J. and Schiller, W. (2005). Multiple methods in qualitative research with children. In EECERA 15th Annual Conference. EECERA 15th Annual Conference.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, W., Darbyshire, P. and Brackett-Milburn, K. (2004). Giving children a voice in policy development through the use of drawing, mapping and photographic action research methods. In Quality Curricula: The Influence of Research, Policy and Praxis: Abstracts. 14th annual conference on quality in early childhood education.
MacDougall, C.J., Schiller, J., Darbyshire, P. and Williams, M. (2004). Supportive policies and environments for children's development: Implications from qualitative research. In World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education: Health 2004 Program. World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education.
MacDougall, C.J. (2004). Really listening to children: their realities, worlds and play. In One World: Many Childhoods: XXIV World Congress of OMEP. XXIV world congress of OMEP, one world: many childhoods. [online]. Available from: http://www.omepaustralia.com.au/congress/Final%20Program%201-52%20-%20FINAL.pdf.
MacDougall, C.J. (2004). Developing healthy public policies to support physical activity: a model and case studies. In World conference on health promotion & health education: Health 2004 Program. World conference on health promotion & health education.
Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C.J., Gill, T.K. and Schiller, W. (2004). Gender and equity: giving the curriculum a sporting chance. In QUALITY CURRICULA: THE INFLUENCE OF RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRAXIS; ABSTRACTS. 14th annual conference on quality in early childhood education.
Sager, R., MacDougall, C.J. and Dunbar, J.A. (2004). An evaluation framework for the qualitative investigation of a physical activity prescription program in rural Victoria. In 2004 General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference Handbook. 2004 GPPHCR Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.phcris.org.au/elib/lib/elib/viewabstract.php?elibid=529.
Schiller, J., MacDougall, C.J. and Darbyshire, P. (2004). Politics, praxis and play in curricula to enhance children's physical activity. In Quality Curricula: The Influence of Research, Policy and Praxis: Abstracts. 14th Annual Conference on Quality in Early Childhood Education.
Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C.J. and Schiller, W. (2003). Places and spaces: Myths and messages  (Abstract). In Possible childhoods: relationships and choices: Abstracts. European Early Childhood Research Association's 13th Annual Conference, Quality in Early Childhood Education. p. 30.
Gill, T.K., MacDougall, C.J., Taylore, A., Schiller, W. and Darbyshire, P. (2003). The effects of injury and environmental factors on ability to undertake physical activity. In Active Living-All

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Professional and community engagement

Much of my community engagement happens through the Southgate Institute at Flinders http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/southgate/about/about.cfm In the Southgate I have played a role in initiating or organising a Journal Club, Theory Club and Policy Club which have successfully engaged practitioners and policy makers with researchers in discussions about contemporary health questions. In 2011 I will be running a Research Incubator to develop research proposals.

I contribute to the public health community by conducting workshops and community based research.

Grant Assessor for NHMRC, ARC and other grants.

Channel Seven Children's Research Foundation Research Committee

Journal reviewer.

Chair Post Doctoral Fellow selection commmittees for the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Co-convener of the Child Health Special Interest Group in the Public Health Association.

I also contribute to fairness in sport by coaching and sports management in schools and the community.

Expertise for media contact

  • Public Health physical activity, healthy public policy, health reform
  • University Teaching flexible delivery, distance education, curriculum development
  • Childhood, Public Health and climate change

Subject/s

  • Community/Public Health
  • Universities


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