Dr Roslyn Weaver

• Biography
• Areas of Research
• Recent Projects
• Selected Publications
• Conferences
• Professional Activities 
• Contact Details

Biography

Roslyn Weaver works as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Family and Community Health Research Group. Her main focus of research is around popular culture and medical humanities. Roslyn holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Wollongong and graduated in 2008. Her doctoral thesis examined popular culture, apocalypse, and Australian speculative fiction and cinema, and she is the author of Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study (2011). Roslyn is the co-author with Dr Kimberley McMahon-Coleman of a forthcoming book on shapeshifting in popular culture and its use as a metaphor for disability, mental health, addiction and difference. Roslyn has facilitated writing groups and currently supervises PhD and Honours students.

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Areas of Research

Popular culture
Medical humanities
Literature, media and medicine
Soccer and health
Educational research
Australian literature
Children's literature
Speculative fiction, apocalypse and dystopia

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Recent Projects

2011-2012
Exploring health information on community soccer club websites
Funding: UWS College of Health and Science Summer Research Scholarships, $3,000
Summer Research Scholar: Claire Curmi
Supervisor: Roslyn Weaver

2011
Popular culture and professional identity in nursing and forensic science students
Funding: UWS Research Grant Scheme, $13,865
Research Team: Roslyn Weaver, Yenna Salamonson, Debra Jackson, Glenn Porter

2009-2010
Medical role models in popular culture
Funding: UWS Research Seed Grant Scheme, $4,233
Grant recipient: Roslyn Weaver 
Research Team: Roslyn Weaver, Ian Wilson

2009-2010
Academic writing support in the School of Medicine
Research Team: Roslyn Weaver, Ian Wilson

2009-2012
Universal diverse orientation (UDO) of health sciences and business students
Research team: Yenna Salamonson, Roslyn Weaver, Kath Peters, Stephen Teo, Ian Wilson, Sharon Andrew, Debra Jackson, Andrea Bialocerkowski, Jane Koch

2009
Learning approaches in medical students
Research team: Yenna Salamonson, Ian Wilson, Roslyn Weaver

2009
Medicine in context
Research Team: Ian Wilson, Hilary Bambrick, Louella McCarthy, Tim Wills, Roslyn Weaver

2008-2009
Understanding whistleblowing in the health sector: Experiences of whistleblowers and bystanders before and after the event
Research Team: Debra Jackson, Yenna Salamonson, Lesley Wilkes, Kath Peters, Sharon Andrew, Lauretta Luck, Liz Halcomb, Michel Edenborough, Roslyn Weaver

2008
Supporting academic performance and improvement, targeting English as second language nursing students (SAPIENT Project)
Research Team: Yenna Salamonson, Jane Koch, Roslyn Weaver

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Selected Publications

2011

Salamonson, Y., Bourgeois, S., Everett, B., Weaver, R., Peters, K., & Jackson, D. (2011). Psychometric testing of the abbreviated clinical learning environment inventory (CLEI-19). Journal of Advanced Nursing 67, 2668-76.

Weaver, R., Peters, K., Koch, J., & Wilson, I. (2011). ‘Part of the team’: Professional identity and social exclusivity in medical students. Medical Education 45, 1220-29.

Weaver, R. (2011). Shapeshifting from the margins: Ethnicity and werewolves in the Twilight series. Journal of Children's Literature Studies 8(1), 67-86.

Weaver, R., & Wilson, I. (2011). Australian medical students' perceptions of professionalism and ethics in medical television programs. BMC Medical Education, 11(50), 1-6.

Wilson, I., Weaver, R., & Salamonson, Y. (2011). Changes in learning approaches in first-year medical students. Focus on Health Professional Education 13(2), 65-72.

Wilkes, L., Peters, K., Weaver, R., & Jackson, D. (2011). Nurses involved in whistleblowing incidents: Sequelae for their families. Collegian, 18(3), 101-106.

Weaver, R., & Jackson, D. (2011). Evaluating an academic writing program for nursing students who have English as a second language. Contemporary Nurse: Advances in Contemporary Nurse Education, 38(1-2), 130-138.

Weaver, R. (2011). Apocalypse in Australian fiction and film: A critical study. Jefferson: McFarland.

Jackson, D., Hutchinson, M., Everett, B., Mannix, J., Peters, K., Weaver, R., & Salamonson, Y. (2011). Struggling for legitimacy: Nursing students’ stories of organisational aggression, resilience and resistance. Nursing Inquiry, 18(2), 102-110.

2010

Weaver, R. (2010). Metaphors of monstrosity: The werewolf as disability and illness in Harry Potter and Jatta. Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 40(2), 69-82.

Weaver, R. (2010). Terminal (mis)diagnosis and the physician-patient relationship in LM Montgomery's The Blue Castle. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(10), 1129-31. 

Jackson, D., Peters, K., Andrew, S., Edenborough, M., Halcomb, E. J., Luck, L., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R., & Wilkes, L. (2010). Trial and retribution: A qualitative study of whistleblowing and workplace relationships in nursing. Advances in Contemporary Nursing: Workforce and Workplaces, 36(1-2), 34-44.

Salamonson, Y., Koch, J., Weaver, R., Everett, B., & Jackson, D. (2010). Embedded academic writing support for nursing students with English as a second language. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(2), 413-421.

Weaver, R. (2010). "Smudged, distorted and hidden": Apocalypse as protest in Indigenous speculative fiction. In E. Hoagland & R. Sarwal (Eds.), Science fiction, imperialism, and the third world: Essays on postcolonial literature and film (pp.99-114). Jefferson: McFarland.

2009

Weaver, R. (2009). Commentary. [Medicine and the Arts]. Academic Medicine, 84(12), 1840-41.

Weaver, R. (2009). The shield of distance: Fearful borders at the edge of the world. Terror Australis Incognita? [Special issue]. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature, 23(1), 69-74.

Weaver, R. (2009). "The shadow of the end": The appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction. In J. Walliss & K.G.C. Newport (Eds.), The end all around us: Apocalyptic texts and popular culture (pp. 173-197). London: Equinox.

2008

Andrew, S., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R., Smith, A., O’Reilly, R., & Taylor, C. (2008). Hate the course or hate to go: Semester differences in first year nursing attrition. Nurse Education Today, 28(7), 865-872.

Weaver, R. (2008). The "sacred heart": Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung. Studies in Australian Weird Fiction, 2, 39-48.

Weaver, R. (2008). [Review of the book Disaster movies: The cinema of catastrophe]. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 19(2), 279-281.

2007

Weaver, R. (2007). "The four horsemen of the greenhouse apocalypse": Apocalypse in the science fiction novels of George Turner. Apocalypse Now. Spec. issue of Forum: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, 5. Online.

Halcomb, E., Ferguson, L., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R., Hancock, K., Jackson, D., Chang, E., Anders, R., & Daly, J. (2007). Human resources for health in Pacific Island countries – A situational analysis. Background Paper prepared for the World Health Organization Informal Consultation on HRH in Pacific Island Countries in Suva, Fiji, 10-12 December, 2007.

2006

Weaver, R. (2006). At the end of the world: Australian adolescent literature and apocalypse. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 17(2), 155-168.

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Conferences

Weaver, R. (2011). "House would be fired in a second": Medical students' beliefs about medical television shows. MEdEx: Medical Education Excellence. University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown, Australia. 30 September, 2011.

Weaver, R. (2011). Representations of the "bad mother" in the media. Mothering: Challenges, Change & Hope. University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia. 22 July, 2011. 

Weaver, R. (Presenting Author), & Jackson, D. (2011). Vicarious suffering: Representations of maternal tragedy in popular culture. National Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Conference 2011. San Antonio, USA. 20-23 April, 2011.

Weaver, R. (2010). Yes, doctor: The doctor-nurse relationship in medical television programs. POPCAANZ: The Inaugural Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Australia. 30 June–2 July, 2010.

Weaver, R. (2010). The werewolf, disability and race in children’s fantasy. ICFA: The 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida, USA. 17-21 March, 2010.

Weaver, R. (2009). Slipstreaming the end of the world: Apocalypse in Marianne de Pierres’ cyberpunk. Arts & Sciences Seminar. University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. 22 October, 2009.

Weaver, R. (2009). Belonging and the “finding or losing of it”: Land, home and identity in The Rabbits and The Arrival. Place and Space in Children's Literature. University of Oxford, Oxford, England. 27-28 March, 2009.

Weaver, R. (2006). Australian speculative literature and apocalypse after 1945. Higher Degree Research Student Conference. University of Wollongong, Australia. 27 September, 2006.

Weaver, R. (2006). At the end of the world: Australian children's literature and apocalypse. ICFA: The 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. 15-19 March, 2006.

Weaver, R. (2006). The road from anarchy: Apocalypse and the Mad Max films. Apocalypse and Aporia: The 8th Annual History Across the Disciplines conference, hosted by the Graduate History Society. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 10-12 March, 2006.

Weaver, R. (2005). Indigenous literature and Australian apocalypse. Aboriginality and Globalisation Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 24-25 October, 2005.

Weaver, R. (2005). Indigenous literature and Australian apocalypse. Performing Aboriginality in an Age of Globalisation Conference. University of Wollongong. University of Wollongong, Australia. 16 September, 2005.

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Professional Activities

• Member, Family and Community Health Research Group, UWS
• Member, Culture And Medicine Education & Research Affiliation (CAMERA), UWS
• Member, Workforce Education Research in Nursing (WERiN), UWS
• Member, Australian Society of Authors
• Member, NSW Writers' Centre
• Associate Member, Society of Editors (NSW)
• Member, Association for the Study of Australian Literature 

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