Doctor Tinashe Dune

LECTURER IN INTERPROFESSIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES,
Health Science (SoSH)

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Qualifications

PhD University of Sydney
BA(Psych)(Hons) Carleton University (Canada)

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Health Science (SoSH)

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Email:	T.Dune@uws.edu.au
Extension:	3655
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Location:	24.G.31 Campbelltown
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Biography

Tinashe’s research, teaching and publications focus on sexual marginalization and health inequities. Namely she explores the phenomenological experiences of sexual health, GLBTIQ people, ageing populations, women’s health, cross-cultural understandings of sexuality, sex work and physical disability. Her academic pursuits and interests are supported by several years of hands-on work with the Attendant Services programme at Carleton University, focused on client-directed and dignified provision of personal care for students with moderate to severe disabilities. She has also dedicated herself to the Sex Worker Outreach Program (SWOP) in Sydney and made trips to Western Australia and Queensland to provide support to sex workers from various backgrounds. Tinashe has also interned at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr Thomas Shakespeare and Alana Officer (WHO - Disability and Rehabilitation Unit), in conjunction with the WHO - Reproductive Health Research Unit. She also functions as an Honorary Research Associate for both the Australian ICF Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program (AIDARRP) at the University of Sydney and the Collaborative Research Network Mental Health and Well-being (funded by the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations) at the University of New England.

Dr Dune's major and current research activities with academic and industry colleagues include the following projects:

UNE Post Doctoral/Early Career Researcher Award: Culturally Specific Understandings of Sexual Wellbeing and Ageing amongst older Indigenous Women (Grant held by Dr Tinashe Dune - collaborating with UNE's Oorala Aboriginal Centre and Family Planning Queensland)
ARC Discovery Grant: Sexual Well-being and Ageing: A Study of Older Australian Women (Grant held by Professor Marian Pitts, Professor Victor Minichiello and Associate Professor Gail Hawkes)
Exploring Understandings of Sexuality and Ageing among Older Zimbabwean Women in Australia: A Pilot Study (funding held by Dr Tinashe Dune and Dr Virginia Mapedzahama)
The subjective experience of gender and life in a cross-cultural sample of female-to-male transgendered people (funding held by Associate Professor Gail Hawkes, Dr Amy Lykins, Dr Tiffany Jones, Dr Tinashe Dune and Dr Mitra Rashidian)
UNE Sexual Health for University and Residential College Students (partners include: UNE Student Assist, UNE Medical Centre, UNE Head of Colleges, Hunter New England Local Health District, UNE CRN for Mental Health and Well-being)
Higher Degree Research Student supervision

This information has been contributed by Doctor Dune.

Teaching

Current Teaching Areas

400249 Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care
400732 Communication in Health
400863 Foundations of Research and Evidence-Based Practice

Research

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MONOGRAPHS

Dune, T. M. (2012). Constructions of Sexuality and Disability: Implications for People with Cerebral Palsy. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-8465-9227-4

BOOK CHAPTERS

Dune, T. M., Mpofu, E., Evans, D., & Sullivan, G. (in press). Queering Multicultural Education. International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice eds. E. L. Brown, R. Craven, G. McClean (Volume 8: Gender and Sexuality). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Gwirayi, P., Mpofu, E., Hossain, Z., Dune, T. & Maruatona, S. L. (in press). Sexual and Reproductive Health. Keith, K.D. (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Reid, K. M., & Dune, T. M. (2010). Buy My Love: On Sex Workers, Golddiggers, and "Rules Girls". Dating: Philosophy for Everyone (pp. 101-113). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Dune, T. M. (2013). Re/Developing Models for Understanding Sexuality with Disability within Rehabilitation Counselling. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 16 (April).

Lukersmith, S., Hartley, S., Kuipers, P., Madden, R. H., Llewellyn, G. & Dune, T. (2013). Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) monitoring and evaluation methods and tools: a literature review. Disability and Rehabilitation, Early Online, 1-13.

Dune, T. M. (2013). Understanding Experiences of Sexuality with Cerebral Palsy through Sexual Script Theory. International Journal for Social Science Studies, 1(1), 1–12.

Dune, T. M. (2012). As I Am: A True Story of Adaptation to Physical Disability (Book Review). Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, 18(1), 66–69.

Dune, T. M. (2012). Sexuality and physical disability: Exploring the barriers and solutions in healthcare. Sexuality and Disability, 30(2), 247–256.

Dune, T. (2012). Sexual expression, fulfilment and haemophilia: reflections from the 16th Australian and New Zealand Haemophilia Conference. Haemophilia, published online.

Mpofu, E., Dune, T. M., Hallfors, D.D., Mapfumo, J., Mutepfa, M.M. & January, J., (2011). Apostolic Faith Church Organization Contexts for Health and Wellbeing in Women and Children. Ethnicity and Health, 16(6), 551–566.

Shuttleworth, R., Russell, C., Weerakoon, P., & Dune, T. (2010). Sexuality in Residential Aged Care: A Survey of Perceptions and Policies in Australian Nursing Homes. Sexuality and Disability, 28(2), 187-194.

Dune, T. M., & Shuttleworth, R. P. (2009). “It’s Just Supposed to Happen”: The Myth of Sexual Spontaneity and the Sexually Marginalized. Sexuality and Disability, 27(2), 97-108.

OTHER ARTICLES

Minichiello, V., Dune, T. 'From homophobia to homophilia: The future face of medicine'. The Conversation, May 2012.