Doctor Debbie Horsfall

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Geography and Urban Studies (SoSSP)

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Qualifications

PhD University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
MA Macquarie University
BEd University of Bradford

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Geography and Urban Studies (SoSSP)

Contact

Email:	D.Horsfall@uws.edu.au
Extension:	2093
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Location:	P.G.11 Penrith (Kingswood)
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Biography

Debbie is a passionate leader in the field of inclusive, democratic, qualitative research in health, human services and community development. Her transformative agenda privileges people’s voices during a myriad of challenging life events. This has led to her participation in numerous engaged research projects including work with: Cancer Council NSW; Multicultural Health; The Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, Women’s Housing Services; and the Prime Ministers Youth Action Task Force. As a result of her extensive scholarly work in the area of creative, community development and practice based research she has served on several editorial boards, written, co-edited and contributed to over 50 publications including 4 scholarly research books, and is continually approached as a reviewer across disciplinary fields. Working with informal carers and service providers in end of life care her current research work explores how dying at home develops death literacy, health promoting palliative care, creative partnerships and compassionate communities. She is also researching socio-cultural influences on older Greek carer’s decisions in end of life care. In 2005 Debbie was awarded the Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Training and Supervision. She is a post graduate examiner at national and international levels and has successfully supervised over 34 research candidates.

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Publications

Books

Higgs, J., Titchen, A., Horsfall, D., Horsfall, D. and Bridges, D. (2011), 'Creative spaces for qualitative researching:Living research', : Sense 9789460917592.
Higgs, J., Horsfall, D. and Grace, S. (2009), 'Writing qualitative research on practice', : Sense 9789087909062.
Higgs, J., Angie, T., Horsfall, D. and Armstrong, H. (2007), 'Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research', : Hampden Press 9781875648191.

Chapters in Books

Horsfall, D., Horsfall, D. and Titchen, A. (2011), 'Telling People's Stories: Creating Authentic Approaches.', Creative Spaces for Qualitative Researching:Living Research, Sense 9789460917592.
Horsfall, D., Horsfall, D. and Higgs, J. (2011), 'Creative Research Re-Presentations', Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living research, Sense 9789460917592.
Horsfall, D. and Higgs, J. (2011), 'Boundary Riding and Shaping Research Spaces', Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living research, Sense 9789460917592.
Horsfall, D., Bridgman, K., Camden-Pratt, C., Camden Pratt, C., Kaufman Hall, V. and Pinn, J. (2011), 'Playing Creative Edges: Reflections from Women Out to Lunch 5 Years on', Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living research, Sense 9789460917592.
Titchen, A., Horsfall, D. and Debbie, H. (2011), 'Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living research', , Sense 9789460917592.
Bridges, D., Horsfall, D. and Horsfall, D. (2011), 'Creating Feminist Spaces in Military Places', Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living research, Sense 9789460917592.
Titchen, A., Horsfall, D. and Horsfall, D. (2011), 'Creative Research Landscapes and Gardens: Reviewing Options and Opportunities', Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living research, Sense 9789460917592.
Titchen, A., Horsfall, D. and Debbie, H. (2011), 'Embodying Creative Imagination and Expression in Qualitative Research', Creative spaces for qualitative researching: Living Research, Sense 9789460917592.
Horsfall, D. and Higgs, J. (2010), 'Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research', Researching Practice: A Discourse on Qualitative Methodologies, Sense 9789460911811.
Horsfall, D. and Pinn, J. (2009), 'Writing Collaboratively', Writing qualitative research on practice, Sense 9769087909062.
Horsfall, D. (2009), 'Facing the challenges of writing: Finding courage and conviction', Writing qualitative research on practice, Sense 9769087909062.
Grace, S., Higgs, J. and Horsfall, D. (2009), 'Celebrating writing', Writing Qualitative research on practice, Sense 9769087909062.
Alder, S. and Horsfall, D. (2008), 'Beyond the restitution narrative: lived bodies and expert patients', Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, Elsevier, Butterworth Heinemann 9780750688857.
Horsfall, D., Bridgeman, K., Camden-Pratt, C., Kaufman Hall, V. and Pinn, J. (2007), 'Playing Creative Edges : Performing Research - Women out to Lunch', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Horsfall, D. and Higgs, J. (2007), 'Boundary Riding', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Armstrong, H. and Horsfall, D. (2007), 'Ethics in Critical, Creative Research', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Horsfall, D. and Titchen, A. (2007), 'Telling Participants Stories', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Horsfall, D. and Higgs, J. (2007), 'Table Talk: Creative Research Re-presentations', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Armitage, L. and Horsfall, D. (2007), 'A Place Called Organised: Critical Action Research as House/Homework', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 8781875648191.
Titchen, A. and Horsfall, D. (2007), 'Re-imaging Research Using Creative Imagination and Expression', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Higgs, J. and Horsfall, D. (2007), 'Of Nouns and Verbs', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Horsfall, D. and Welsby, J. (2007), 'If Someone Actually Asked Us, You'd Find We Have a Lot to Say: Arts Based Inquiry with Women Who Have and Intellectual Disability', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Titchen, A., Higgs, J. and Horsfall, D. (2007), 'Research Artistry: Dancing the praxis spiral in critical-creative qualitative research', Being Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research, Hampden Press 9781875648191.
Horsfall, D., Byrne-Armstrong, H. and Higgs, J. (2002), 'Researching Critical Moments', Critical Moments in Qualitative Research, Butterworth & Heinemann 0750651598.
Horsfall, D., Byrne Armstrong, H. and Rothwell, R. (2001), 'Embodying Knowledges:Challenging the Theory/Practice Divide', Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts, Blackwell Science 0632059338.

Journal Articles

Horsfall, D. and Leonard, R. (2012), 'Bringing our dying home : how caring for someone at end of life builds social capital and develops compassionate communities', Health Sociology Review, 10.
Welsby, J. and Horsfall, D. (2011), 'Everyday practices of exclusion/inclusion: women who have an intellectual disability speaking for themselves?', Disability & Society, 13.
Noonan, K., Leonard, R. and Horsfall, D. (2011), 'You can't do that! Researching alternate stories of community participation at end of life', Third Sector Review, 15.
Leonard, R., Horsfall, D. and Noonan, K. (2010), 'Models of Caring from India and Australia and Their Relationship to Social Capital', Nepalese Journal of Public Policy and Governance, .
Horsfall, D. and Titchen, A. (2009), 'Disrupting edges - opening spaces:pursuing democracy and human flourishing through creative methodologies', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 14.
Bridges, D. and Horsfall, D. (2009), 'Increasing Operational Effectiveness in UN Peacekeeping:Toward a Gender-Balanced Force', Armed Forces & Society, 11.
Horsfall, D. (2008), 'Performing Communit(y)ies', Forum: Qualitative Social Research, .
Horsfall, D. (2008), 'Bearing Witness: toward a pedagogical practice of love', Reflective Practice, 10.
Horsfall, D., Bridges, D., Camden-Pratt, C. and Sammon, L. (2004), 'A Performance of Difference', Refective Practice, 20.

Conference Papers

Mckenzie, A., Higgs, J. and Horsfall, D. (2006), 'Critically reviewing one's own primary value beliefs - a case history', Voice, Identity and Reflexivity: Proceedings of the second RIPPLE Qualitative research as intepretive practice conference 2005, CSU - Albury.
Welsby, J. and Horsfall, D. (2006), 'I didn't think I could do art but it's not hard!: Arts based inquiry with women who have an intellectual disability', ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference 2006, Sydney Australia.
Horsfall, D., Mckenzie, A. and Higgs, J. (2005), 'Guidelines for Assessing Progress of Learning in Complex Domains', IADIS International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2005), Portugal.

Research

Inclusive qualitative research; research using creative, or arts-based, methods; community development; social capital; social activism; feminisms/gender; peace and development.