International Health Humanities Network Membership

Deana is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research draws on interdisciplinary perspectives to critically study health education programs, curriculum and pedagogies. Whilst her work has a strong school focus, she has recently begun to explore the possibilities of other pedagogical spaces and approaches that seek to teach us something about health including museums/ exhibits, gardens, digital media and design thinking.   Currently Deana is a member of 2 Australian Research Council Discovery Project teams that critically examine health pedagogies in different settings including schools and families.  

Deana currently serves on the editorial boards of Health Education Journal and Health Education and is co-convenor of the CHESS (Critical Health Education Studies). She is  co-editor of the Routledge Book Series Critical Studies of Health and Education. Additionally she is a co-convenor of the European Education Research Association's Research Network 8 - Research in Health and Wellbeing. More recently Deana has been invited to be a member of the International Scientific Committee of the new UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education.