BIOGRAPHY - Lisa Bourke

Participation in the Network's Paradigm and Applications Working Group (select the appropriate options)

Paradigm Working Groups

 Socio-spatial theory

 Methodologies, tools and techniques

 Scenarios and forecasting

 Sources, data quality and data integration

Application Working Groups

 National and regional socio-economic change

 Population, economic and information flows

 Social and economic networks

 Regional development and community capacity building

 Behaviour and well-being in socio-spatial settings

Publication 1:

Tynan, M., Atkinson, P., Bourke, L., Atkinson, A. et al. (2006) If you don’t have health, what’s the point of living? Koori Voices from the Goulburn-Murray Region on Health and its Determinants. In the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health, in press. Melbourne: CRCAH.

Publication 2:

Bourke, L., Sheridan, C., Russell, U., Jones, G., DeWitt, D. and Liaw, S.T. (2004) Developing a conceptual understanding of rural health practice. Australian Journal of Rural Health 12:181-186.

Publication 3:

Bourke, L. (2003) Understanding youth suicide in an Australian rural community. Social Science & Medicine 57(12):2355-2365.

Publication 4:

Bourke, L. (2002) How can you deal with that? Coping strategies among young residents of a rural community in NSW”. Journal of Family Studies 8(2):197-212.

Publication 5:

Henderson, R., Simmons, D., Bourke, L. & Muir, J. (2002) Development of guidelines for non-Indigenous people undertaking research among the Indigenous population of north east Victoria. Medical Journal of Australia 176 (20 May):482-85.

Publication 6:

Melbye, J., Bourke, L., Luloff, A.E., Liao, P., Theodori, G. & Krannich, R.S. (2002) The drop-off/pick-up method for household survey research in rural communities. Journal of the Community Development Society 32(2):238-250.

Publication 7:

Lockie, S. & Bourke, L., Eds. (2001) Rurality Bites: The Social and Environmental Transformation of Rural Australia. Sydney: Pluto Press.

Publication 8:

Bourke, L. (2001) Australian rural consumers’ perceptions of health issues. Australian Journal of Rural Health 9(1):1-6.

Publication 9:

Bourke, L. & Muir, J. (2001) Indigenous health and self determination. Health Education Australia 1(3):33-36.

Publication 10:

Bourke, L. Jacob, S. & Luloff, A.E. (1996) Response to Pennsylvania’s agricultural preservation programs. Rural Sociology 61(4):606-629.

Current Research 1:

Aboriginal health and wellbeing

Current Research 2:

Rural community development

Current Research 3:

Rural young people, health and wellbeing

Current Research 4:

Community research methods and approaches

Current Research 5:

Rural health and wellbeing