Dr Roslyn Weaver
- Biography
- Areas of Research
- Recent Projects
- Selected Publications
- Conferences
- Professional Activities
- Contact Details
Biography
Roslyn Weaver holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Wollongong. Her main areas of research are around literature, popular culture, medical humanities and educational research, and she has presented her work internationally and published across these areas. Roslyn is the author of Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study (2011), and the co-author with Dr Kimberley McMahon-Coleman of Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions (2012). She has taught undergraduate courses in literature, film, and research methods, facilitated writing groups, and supervised PhD and Honours students.
Areas of Research
Popular culture
Medical humanities
Literature, media and medicine
Educational research
Australian literature
Children's literature
Speculative fiction, apocalypse and dystopia
Recent Projects
2012-2013
Medical research ethics and popular culture
Funding: UWS Student Summer Research Program
Summer Research Scholar: Jack Menzies
Supervisor: Roslyn Weaver
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
2008
Supporting academic performance and improvement, targeting English as second language nursing students (SAPIENT Project)
Research Team: Yenna Salamonson, Jane Koch, Roslyn Weaver
Selected Publications
Books
McMahon-Coleman, K., & Weaver, R. (2012). Werewolves and other shapeshifters in popular culture: A thematic analysis of recent depictions. Jefferson: McFarland.
Weaver, R. (2011). Apocalypse in Australian fiction and film: A critical study. Jefferson: McFarland.
Book chapters
Weaver, R., & McMahon-Coleman, K. (2012). Harry Potter and the myriad mothers: The maternal figure as lioness, witch, and wardrobe. In C.J. Hallett & P.J. Huey (Eds.), J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter (pp. 149-162). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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.
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.
Journal articles
Weaver, R. Games, civil war, and mutiny: Metaphors of conflict for the nurse-doctor relationship in medical television programmes. Nursing Inquiry. Early view online.
Weaver, R., Salamonson, Y., Koch, J., & Jackson, D. Nursing on television: Student perceptions of television’s role in public image, recruitment and education. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Early view online.
Weaver, R. (2013). ‘Don’t you have to care about people?’ Challenges of caring. Medical Education 47, 434-435.Weaver, R., & Jackson, D. (2012). Tragic heroes, moral guides and activists: Representations of maternal grief, child death and tragedy in Australian newspapers. Health Sociology Review 21(4), 432-440.
Weaver, R. (2012). Power, professional identity, and the doctor who can cure all ailments. Medical Education 46(12), 1143-1144.
Weaver, R., Salamonson, Y., Koch, J., & Porter, G. (2012). The CSI effect at university: Forensic science students’ television viewing and perceptions of ethical issues. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 44(4), 381-391.
Power, T., Jackson, D., Weaver, R., Wilkes, L, & Carter, B. (2012). Autobiography as genre for qualitative research: A reservoir of experience for nursing research. Collegian 19, 39-43.
Chik, W. Z., Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Ramjan, L., Attwood, N., Weaver, R., Saad, Z., & Davidson, P. (2012). Gender difference in academic performance of nursing students in a Malaysian university. International Nursing Review 59, 387–393.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.
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., & 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. (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.
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. (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.
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.
Conferences
Weaver, R. (2013). When classics go wild: Mental illness and monstrosity in literary monster mashups. Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia. Auckland, New Zealand. 22-23 January, 2013.
Weaver, R. (2012). Popular culture and professional identity: What nursing, medical and forensic science students think about their profession on television. POPCAANZ: The 3rd Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne, Australia. 27-29 June.
Weaver, R. (2012). Coping and mental health in young adult dystopian fiction. 2012 Biennial Conference of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research. Canberra, Australia, 20-22 June.
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.
Professional Activities
- Member, Australian Society of Authors
- Member, NSW Writers' Centre
- Associate Member, Society of Editors (NSW)
- Member, Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- Member, International Research Society for Children's Literature
- Member, Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia
