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Dr Belinda Lewis

PhD, BAppSci(Hons), BSci, DipEducation

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +61 3 9904 4469
Facsimile:
Email: belinda.lewis@monash.edu

 

Profile

Belinda has a PhD in Health Promotion from Deakin University and has worked as a practitioner, researcher and health promotion consultant with a wide range of government, professional and community organisations. These include community health services, local government, health advocacy groups, Divisions of General Practice, Royal Women's Hospital, VICFIT, Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia, Cancer Council and the Victorian Government Department of Human Services. Belinda has also worked in a range of international settings on key global health issues including:

  • HIV/AIDS;
  • community recovery after crisis & conflict;
  • diversity and discrimination;
  • health communication and the role of the media in health promotion.

Belinda's work is published widely in Australia and overseas. She is an active participant in media interviews and features covering aspects of her research. Listen to some of these on:
ABC Radio National, Saturday Extra, ‘Bali's Silent Crisis', June 20, 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2009/2602107.htm

ABC Radio Australia, Connect Asia, ‘Paradise image conceals Bali's problems',
December 15, 2009
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200912/s2772061.htm

Belinda's recent book, Bali's Silent Crisis: desire, tragedy and transition (2009)
is co-authored with Jeff Lewis, and published in the US by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield.
Go to: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739132432

Book Cover

Research interests

  • Health promotion;
  • Community partnerships and capacity building - in local and international contexts;
  • International health development:
  • Crisis, recovery and community sustainability (Bali, Indonesia, Sri Lanka);
  • Insecurity and the transition to civil society;
  • Cultural politics of health (including HIV, drug use, sexuality, gender);
  • Health communication (including new technologies, advocacy, popular media);
  • Cultural studies and critical approaches to the media and public health
  • Inter-professional Education

Teaching
Belinda is role within the School is as Health Promotion academic across the departments of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Emergency Health and Social Work. She has a key role in developing curriculum, presenting guest lectures and workshops, unit coordination and teaching undergraduate units in Inter-professional Education and Health Promotion. Teaching areas include:

  • foundations of health in primary clinical care,
  • health promotion,
  • health communication,
  • community partnerships and capacity building.

Belinda also presents public lectures and community workshops in health promotion, diversity and health, and the media and public health.

Higher degree supervision

Belinda is a fully accredited Research Supervisor. She provides postgraduate degree supervision in the above list of research interests and related areas.
Belinda has successfully supervised PhD, Masters and Honours research candidates and has recently been a supervisor and/or examiner for theses focused on:

  • development, tourism and community health on Rote Island, Indonesia,
  • improving services for injecting drug users in Indonesia,
  • rehabilitation services in developing countries,
  • HIV/AIDS prevention in Vietnam,
  • freedom of the press in Indonesia
  • health promotion in women’s prisons in Victoria, Australia.

Current projects under Belinda’s supervision include:

  • Community media and health promotion amongst African refugee communities.

Belinda's recent book, Bali's Silent Crisis: desire, tragedy and transition (2009)
is co-authored with Jeff Lewis, and published in the US by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield.
Go to: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739132432

Recent Publications

Books

  1. Lewis B. 2010. Women, health and exercise after childbirth. Strategies to support physical activity for mothers of young children: perspectives of women and health professionals. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany.
  2. Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2009. Bali’s Silent Crisis: desire, tragedy and transition. Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, US.

Book Chapters

  1. Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2012, ‘British Cultural Studies’ in B. Cohen, (ed.), Being Cultural, Pearson Education, NZ. 67-82.
  2. Lewis B and Lewis J. 2009 'Insecurity, conflict and crisis as determinants of health’ in H.Keleher and C.McDougall (Eds), Understanding Health, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  3. Lewis B. and Lewis J. 2009, ‘Taming the Rwa Bhineda: Recovery after the Bali Bombings’, in P.James, T. Nairn and D. Grenfell, (Eds), Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? Routledge, New York.
  4. Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2007, ‘Transforming the Bhuta Kala: The Bali bombings and Indonesian Civil Society’, in D. Staines, Ed. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle on Tyne, UK.
  5. Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2006, ‘On the Edge of the Wave: Community recovery in a tsunami-affected area of Sri Lanka’ in K.Cook and K.Gilbert, Eds, Life on the  Margins: Implications for  Health Research, Pearson Education, Melbourne. (ISBN: 0733978355)

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Sahin, S., Lewis B., Lewis J. 2012 ‘Fractured futures: Indonesian political reform and West Timorese manganese mining’, Global Change, Peace & Security [In press]
  2. Lewis J., Lewis B., Putra, D. 2012. The Bali Bombings Monument: Ceremonial Cosmopolis, Journal of Asian Studies [In press]
  3. Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2010, ‘Transactions in Desire: media imaginings of narcotics and terrorism in Indonesia’, Cultural Studies Review 16 (2) September.
  4. Iacono, T. Lewis, B. Tracy, J, Hicks, S. Morgan, P. Récoché, K. McDonald, R. (2011), DVD-based stories of people with developmental disabilities as resources for inter-professional education. Disability and rehabilitation, Vol.33(12), 1010-21.
  5. Brett Williams, Belinda Lewis, Malcolm Boyle and Ted Brown  (2011) The impact of wireless keypads in an interprofessional education context with health science students, British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 42 No 2 2011 337–350. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01031.x
  6. Lisa McKenna, Malcolm Boyle, TedBrown, Brett Williams, Andrew Molloy, Belinda Lewis, Liz Molloy (2011). Levels of empathy in undergraduate midwifery students: An Australian cross-sectional study, Women and Birth.  24(2):80-4.
  7. Brown, T., Williams, B., Boyle, M., Molloy, A. , McKenna, L., Palermo, C., Molloy, L., Lewis, B. (2011), Communication styles of undergraduate health students, Nurse Education Today, 31, 317-322. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2010.06.006
  8. Boyle, M., Brown, T., Williams, B., Molloy, A., McKenna, L., Molloy, L., & Lewis, B Attitudes of undergraduate health science students towards patients with intellectual disability, substance abuse, and acute mental illness: A cross-sectional study
    BMC Medical Education 2010, 10:71 Preliminary pub at
    http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/10/71 .
  9. M. Boyle, B. Williams, T. Brown, A. Molloy, L. McKenna, L. Molloy & B. Lewis: Levels of empathy in undergraduate health science students. The Internet Journal of Medical Education. (2010) Volume 1 Number 1 http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_medical_education/volume_1_number_1_74/article_printable/levels-of-empathy-in-undergraduate-health-science-students-1.html
  10. Brown, T., Boyle, M. J., Williams, B., Molloy, A., McKenna, L., Palermo, C., Lewis, B., & Molloy, L. (2010). Listening Styles of Undergraduate Health Students. Education for Health, 23(3), 1-10. Available from: http://www.educationforhealth.net/
  11. M. Boyle, B. Williams, T. Brown, A. Molloy, L. McKenna, L. Molloy & B. Lewis. (2010) Levels of empathy in undergraduate health science students. The Internet Journal of Medical Education. Volume 1 Number 1 http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_medical_education/volume_1_number_1_74/article_printable/levels-of-empathy-in-undergraduate-health-science-students-1.html
  12. Brown, T., Williams, B., Boyle, M., Molloy, A., McKenna, L., Molloy, L., & Lewis, B. (2010). Levels of empathy in undergraduate occupational therapy students. Occupational Therapy International, 17(3), 135-141.
  13. Williams, B. Lewis, B. Boyle, M. Brown, T. Holt, T. 2008, A survey of undergraduate health science students’ views on interprofessional education and the use of educational technology: Preliminary analyses and findings. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care. Vol. 6, Issue 4. http://www.jephc.com/full_article.cfm?content_id=499
  14. Lewis B. & Stone N. 2007, ‘Shaping a sustainable inter-professional education program’, Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Vol 8, no 3. http://www.anzame.unsw.edu.au/journal.htm
  15. Lewis J. & Lewis B. 2006, ‘Trial by Ordeal: Abu Ghraib and the Global Mediasphere’, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, pp.27-43.
  16. Lewis B. and Ridge D. 2005, 'Mothers reframing physical activity: family-oriented politicism, transgression and contested expertise', Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 60, pp.2295-2306
  17. Lewis B. and Lewis J. 2004, ‘After the Glow: challenges and opportunities for Balinese communities in the context of the 2002 bombings’, In: First International Sources of Insecurity Conference Proceedings, Grenfell, Damian (Editor). Melbourne: RMIT
    Publishing, 2004. Availability:
    <http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=876201933383235;res=E-LIBRARY>EISBN: 0864593333. (Full PAPER)
  18. Lewis J and Lewis B. 2004, ‘The Crisis of Contiguity: communities and contention in the context of the Bali bombings’, In: First International Sources of Insecurity Conference Proceedings, Grenfell, Damian (Editor). Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004. Availability:
    <http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=876183300411977;res=E-LIBRARY> EISBN: 0864593333. (FULL PAPER)
  19. Lewis B and Lewis J. 2004, 'Expressive condition: Cultural Studies, the Body and Public Health', International Journal of Humanities, vol 2, issue 1.