Graduate Students
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Ku Tan Kan Tan Ku is a registered nurse, specialising in psychiatry. Ku is currently writing her Master thesis entitled "Professionals' Attitudes towards Mental Illness: A Comparison of Ethnic Chinese and Anglo-Celtic Nurses". The thesis aims to provide insight into nurses' attitudes towards mental illness and to assess whether culture, in relation to the construct of individualism/collectivism, affects these attitudes and the stigma attached to mental illness, in nursing practice. |
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Catherine (Kit) Lazaroo Kit is a medical practitioner currently working in general practice. She is also a playwright with a number of credits in independent theatre, and has a Masters degree in writing drama from the Australian Film Television and Radio School. She also has a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (James Cook University). In the past she has done volunteer work with urban Nyungar women in Perth, and more recently became interested in the possibilities of using creative, participatory approaches to public health while doing some pro bono work at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. She is currently co-enrolled at Melbourne University’s Centre for International Mental Health and School of Creative Arts, undertaking a PhD which looks at mental health, narrative, and meaning-making among East Timorese former asylum seekers. |
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Helen Evert Helen Evert is a probationary psychologist and is currently enrolled as a part-time PhD candidate with the Department of Psychiatry based at the CIMH. Her study is entitled ‘War experiences and the emotional health and well-being of Polish elderly Migrants’. Helen has interviewed 72 Polish elderly people living across Melbourne about their experiences during the Second World War. The study aims to assess the emotional health and well-being of people who experienced a range of traumatic events. The experiences have been varied with many people surviving exile to Siberia and other territories of the former Soviet Union, people who were forced labours in Germany, men who fought with the allied forces and those who fought in Poland as part of the resistance movement. A number of individuals survived the concentration camps. Each person has generously given a detailed account of their lives in pre-war Poland, what happened to them during the war and the events leading up to their migration to Australia. The majority of people arrived here in the late 1940s and 1950s. A quantitative interview schedule was developed in Polish to measure depression, anxiety and PTSD as well as collect socio-demographic and other health related information. A narrative interview was also included for some of the participants as an opportunity to ‘tell their story’. Helen hopes to complete interviewing shortly and analyse the information collected. |
