Dr. Dianne Wepa,Honorary Visiting Researcher - FOHS
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Biography
Kia ora / GreetingsI am the inaugural Associate Professor Mental Health and Professional Lead at the University of Bradford. I originate from from Hastings, New Zealand and my tribe is Ngati Kahungunu. My Phd focused on how MÄori people engaged with healthcare services. I have published journal articles and textbooks on Cultural Safety, Clinical Supervision and Mental Health. I am a registered social worker and therapist in mental health, youth health and MÄori health. My governance roles include the Humanities, Social and Health Sciences (HSHS) Research Ethics Panel as a panel member/reviewer at the University of Bradford, Lay member for the Nursing Council of New Zealand, National Animal Ethics Committee and Audiologist Society Complaintsâ Board. I am an Editorial Board member for the International Journal of Education, Culture and Society. My previous roles included Programme Director, Bachelor of Community Health, First Peoplesâ Health, Qualitative Research Methods and Global Health at the University of South Australia. My current research topics include: the impact of digital technology on suicide prevention; the social impact on dementia; fathers' use of Kangaroo Care with new-born babies; Aboriginal peoplesâ mental health discourse; midwifery students' resilience; effective viral hepatitis management strategies during COVID-19; Demystifying Case Management; evaluating Health Service Usersâ Satisfaction with the Quality of Health Services in New Zealand Using Donabedianâs Model: A Mixed-method Case Study of Kurdish Immigrants; reconnecting for Maori in a post COVID-19 world; mobilising transformational practices of academic staff within and beyond the intermediate learning and teaching context; A qualitative descriptive case study of health professionals and legal cannabis users. I am interested developing a cultural safety textbook for the UK and would like people interested in contributing to contact me.
Research
My research topics include: the impact of digital technology on suicide prevention; the social impact on dementia; fathers' use of Kangaroo Care with new-born babies; Aboriginal peoplesâ mental health discourse; midwifery students' resilience; effective viral hepatitis management strategies during COVID-19; Demystifying Case Management; evaluating Health Service Usersâ Satisfaction with the Quality of Health Services in New Zealand Using Donabedianâs Model: A Mixed-method Case Study of Kurdish Immigrants; reconnecting for Maori in a post COVID-19 world; mobilising transformational practices of academic staff within and beyond the intermediate learning and teaching context.
Research collaborators
Name | Company | Country | Type | Role | Theme | Description |
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Northumbria University | GB | EXTERNAL | Co-supervisor PhD student | Mixed Methods Research | Examining the experience of student midwives and resilience. | |
University of South Australia | AU | EXTERNAL | Co-supervisor Masters student | Scoping review | Scoping review on evidence-based nursing practice on implementation of telehealth as a mode of health care delivery in managing with people living with hepatitis B and C in outpatient settings | |
University of South Australia | AU | EXTERNAL | Co-supervisor Masters student | Mixed Methods Research | Fathers who providing kangaroo care in NICU settings: an exploratory study | |
Auckland Institute of Technology | NZ | EXTERNAL | Co-supervisor PhD student | Mixed Methods Research | Evaluating Health Service Users’ Satisfaction with the Quality of Health Services in New Zealand: A Mixed-methods Study of Kurdish Immigrants |
Contract researchers
Name | Role | Project | Duration | Funding body |
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Research Assistant | Co-development of a Digital Health Tool for Suicide Prevention | 12 months |
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Dianne Wepa as follows:
Teaching interests
My teaching interest involves mental health with undergraduate and post-graduate fields. I am an adjunct with the University of South Australia's Suicide Prevention Research Centre where mental health concerns from the lived experience perspective is paramount. I also enjoy developing and coordinating curriculum using constructivist alignment focused on enquiry based learning andragogy. Teaching and Learning from an online platform is another interest of mine where virtual engagement has become the new norm since COVID-19.
Teaching highlights
I have expertise in the area of digital learning and enjoy providing students with a range of online and face-to-face options when engaging in education. I ascribe to the Enquiry Base Learning Model or Flipped Classroom strategy: Connect, Question, Investigate, Construct, Reflect. My research students examine a wide range of health-related topics and I am currently supervising Masters and Phd students within Australia and New Zealand.
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Dianne Wepa is as follows:
Consultancy
- Health Quality Safety Commission New Zealand - Developed online resource and series of videos for health professionals on Maori responsiveness
- Cambridge Core - World Health Day and International Year of the Nurse and Midwife Blog
Education
- Central Institute of Technology - Certificate in Clinical Supervision
- Eastern Institute of Technology - Certificate in Adult Learning and Teaching
- Youth Horizons - Graduate Certificate in Functional Family Therapy
- Auckland University of Technology - PhD
- University of South Australia - Graduate Certificate in Education Studies: Digital Learning
- Massey University - Bachelor of Social Work
- Massey University - Graduate Diploma in Arts (Social Work)
- Massey University - Master of Philosophy (Social Work)
Employment
- Hawkes Bay District Health Board, New Zealand - Team Leader and Social Worker in the year 1991 (specified as 04/02/1991)
- Eastern Institute of Technology - Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator in the year 1997 (specified as 03/02/1997)
- Auckland University of Technology - Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator in the year 2008 (specified as 04/02/2008)
- University of South Australia - Programme Director, Bachelor of Community Health in the year 2018 (specified as 01/02/2018)
Publications
There are 45 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Dianne Wepa. They are listed as:
- book chapter (3)
- conference contribution (18)
- edited book (3)
- peer reviewed journal (19)
- published report (1)
- reviews (1)
Book Chapter
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Intercultural Perspectives | 2020 | Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives | Nursing Ethics: Feminist Perspectives | First | Wepa D | Springer | |||||
Culture and ethnicity: What is the question? | 2015 | Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand | Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand | Wepa D | Pearson Education | ||||||
Culture and ethnicity: What is the question? | 2005 | Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand | Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand | Wepa D | Pearson Education |
Conference Contribution
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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2022 | Digital Health Week New Zealand Conference | Digital Health Week New Zealand Conference | Dianne Wepa | Rotorua, New Zealand | |||||||
2023 | 2023 New Zealand Lactation Conference | 2023 New Zealand Lactation Conference | Dianne Wepa | Online | |||||||
2023 | New Zealand Lactation Consultants Association, Seeking solutions – Finding balance | New Zealand Lactation Consultants Association, Seeking solutions – Finding balance | Wepa D | New Zealand | |||||||
2022 | 11th Making Diversity Count Annual Conference | 11th Making Diversity Count Annual Conference | 0 | Wepa D | University of Bradford | ||||||
2001 | 27th Annual Transcultural Nursing Society Conference | 27th Annual Transcultural Nursing Society Conference | 1 | Wepa D | Pittsburgh, USA | ||||||
2005 | Generating the answer Mental Health Conference | Generating the answer Mental Health Conference | 1 | Wepa D | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||
2005 | Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Group | Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Group | 1 | Wepa D | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||
2016 | Healing our spirits worldwide | Healing our spirits worldwide | 1 | D Kurts, J Nyberg, D Wepa | Hamilton, New Zealand | ||||||
2018 | Healing our spirits worldwide | Healing our spirits worldwide | 1 | Wepa D | Sydney Australia | ||||||
2019 | COMET conference | COMET conference | 1 | Wepa D | University of South Australia | ||||||
2004 | 12th South Pacific Nurses Forum | 12th South Pacific Nurses Forum | 1 | Wepa D | Rarotonga, Cook Islands | ||||||
2006 | Community Respiratory Educators' Conference | Community Respiratory Educators' Conference | 1 | Wepa D | Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||
2006 | Multicultural Disability Advocacy | Multicultural Disability Advocacy | 1 | Wepa D | Sydney Australia | ||||||
2007 | Australasian Nurse Education Conference | Australasian Nurse Education Conference | 1 | Wepa D | Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||
2013 | Aboriginal Cultural Safety Symposium | Aboriginal Cultural Safety Symposium | 1 | Wepa D | Alice Springs, Australia | ||||||
2017 | Research Week: Lost in Translation | Research Week: Lost in Translation | 1 | Wepa D | University of South Australia | ||||||
2018 | General Practice Conference | General Practice Conference | 1 | Wepa D and Wilson D | Rotorua, New Zealand | ||||||
2021 | Accident Compensation Corporation Futures Forum | Accident Compensation Corporation Futures Forum | 1 | Wepa D | Zoom |
Edited Book
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Clinical supervision in Aotearoa New Zealand | 2007 | First | Wepa D | Wepa D | 978-1-877371-39-4 | Pearson Education | |||||
Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand | 2005 | First | Wepa D | Wepa D | 187725875X | Pearson Education | |||||
Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand | 2015 | 2nd | Wepa D | Wepa D | 978-1-107-47744-5 | Cambridge |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Developing conflict resolution strategies and building resilient midwifery students: A mixed methods research protocol | 2021 | Jmir Research Protocols | 35558 | Simpson N, Steen M, Vernon R, Briley A, Wepa D | 10.2196/preprints.35558 | ||||||
Demystifying Case Management in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Scoping and Mapping Review | 2022 | 2004 SME Annual Meeting Preprints | 1 | Stretton, C; Chan, W-Y; Wepa, D | MDPI | http://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202211.0536.v1 | |||||
Codesign of a digital health tool for suicide prevention: protocol for a scoping review | 2023 | BMJ Open | 13 | Wepa D, Neal M, Abo-Gazala W, Cusworth S, Hargan J, Mistry M, Vaughan J, Giles S, Khan M, Power L | BMJ Journals | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2-22-07-329 | |||||
Codesign of digital health tools for suicide prevention: A scoping review | 2023 | Medrxiv : The Preprint Server For Health Sciences | Wepa D, Neale M, Abo-Gazala W, Cusworth S, Hargan J, Mistry M, Vaughan J, Giles S, Khan M | https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.11.23288415 | |||||||
Developing conflict resolution strategies and building resilient midwifery students: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Research Study | 2022 | Jmir Research Protocols | 11 | Simpson N, M Steen, R Vernon, A Briley, D Wepa | JMIR | https://doi.org/10.2196/35558 | |||||
Analysing the perspectives of health professionals and legal cannabis users on the treatment of chronic pain with cannabidiol (CBD): A scoping review | 2022 | Jmir Research Protocols | 37697 | Kumar P, Mpofu C, Wepa D | https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.37697 | ||||||
The silent language of love and connecting: an exploratory study of fathers providing Kangaroo Care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | 2022 | Journal of Clinical Nursing | 16405 | Q Dong, M Steen, D Wepa, A Eden | https://doi.org/10.1111/JOCN.16405 | ||||||
Fathers providing kangaroo care in neonatal intensive care units | 2022 | Evidence Based Midwifery | 20 | Dong Q, Steen M, Wepa D | ISSN 2633-8408 | Evidence Based Midwifery | |||||
Self- Compassion and Veterans’ Health: A Scoping Review. | 2021 | Journal of Military and Veterans' Health | 7 | M Steen, L Di Lemma, A Finnegan, D Wepa, S McGhee | Virgnia Tech Publishing | ||||||
Maori Health Unit | 1995 | Health and Social Work | 7 | Wepa D | |||||||
Conference Report: The 27th Annual Transcultural nursing conference: Oct 10-13 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 2002 | NURSING PRAXIS IN NEW ZEALAND | 18 | Wepa D | |||||||
An exploration of the experiences of cultural safety educators in New Zealand: An action research approach | 2003 | Journal of Transcultural Nursing | 14 | Wepa D | https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659603257341 | ||||||
Cultural safety and the birth culture of Maori | 2007 | Health and Social Work | 18 | Wepa D | |||||||
Cultural safety vs cultural competence | 2008 | Nursing Review | 9 | Wepa D | |||||||
What's needed in preparing health and human services professionals for working with Indigenous Communities | 2010 | Journal of Australian Studies | 13 | Wepa D | |||||||
Struggling to be involved: An interprofessional approach to examine Maori whanau engagement with healthcare services | 2019 | The journal of nursing research : JNR | 3 | Wepa D & Wilson D | https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/13495 | ||||||
Improving antenatal engagement for Aboriginal women in Australia: A scoping review | 2020 | Midwifery | 12 | Simpson N, Wepa D & K Bria | |||||||
The impact of suicide prevention education for nursing students: Systematic review. | 2020 | International Journal of Mental Health Nursing | 29 | - M Ferguson, J Reis, L Rabbetts, T McCracken, M Loughhead, K Rhodes, D Wepa, N Procter | Wiley | doi/10.1111/inm.12753 | |||||
Exploring the methodology used to assess the influence of providing self-compassion education and training for parents and/or families when caring for their children: A systematic review protocol | 2021 | Jmir Research Protocols | 33759 | Othman SME, Steen M, McKellar L, Wepa D | JMIR |
Published Report
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Strengths and Directions: Discussion document on alcohol and drug services | 1994 | 1 | Wepa D | Central Regional Health Authority |
Reviews
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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The impact of suicide prevention education programmes for nursing students: A systematic review | 2020 | International Journal of Mental Health Nursing | 29 | 756 - 771 | Ferguson M.;Reis J.;Rabbetts L.;McCracken T.;Loughhead M.;Rhodes K.;Wepa D.;Procter N. | 1445-8330 | 10.1111/inm.12753 |