Ms Roslyn Weaver

Ms Roslyn Weaver

CASUAL GENERAL,
School of Medicine

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Wollongong
  • BA University of Wollongong

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • School of Medicine

Contact

Email:R.Weaver@uws.edu.au
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Location:30.2
Campbelltown
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Biography

Roslyn Weaver holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Wollongong. Her 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 of Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions (2012), with Dr Kimberley McMahon-Coleman. She has taught undergraduate courses in literature, film, and research methods, has facilitated writing groups, and has supervised PhD and Honours students.

This information has been contributed by Ms Weaver.

Interests

  • Australian literature
  • Children's literature
  • Educational research
  • Health in the media
  • Medical humanities
  • Popular culture
  • Speculative fiction, apocalypse and dystopia

Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 400755 Evidence-Based Nursing 1, 2012

Publications

Books

  • Mcmahon-Coleman, K. and Weaver, R. (2012), 'Werewolves and other shapeshifters in popular culture: A thematic analysis of recent depictions', : McFarland 9780786468164.
  • Mcmahon-Coleman, K. and Weaver, R. (2012), 'Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture : a Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions', : McFarland 9780786468164.
  • Weaver, R. (2011), 'Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study', : McFarland 9780786460519.

Chapters in Books

  • Weaver, R. and Mcmahon-Coleman, K. (2012), 'Harry Potter and the myriad mothers: The maternal figure as lioness, witch, and wardrobe', J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter, Palgrave Macmillan 9780333717028.
  • Weaver, R. and Mcmahon-Coleman, K. (2012), 'Harry Potter and the myriad mothers : the maternal figure as lioness, witch, and wardrobe', J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter, Palgrave 9780230008496.
  • Weaver, R. (2010), 'Smudged, distorted and hidden: Apocalypse as protest in Indigenous speculative fiction', Science fiction, imperialism, and the third world: Essays on postcolonial literature and film, McFarland 0786447893.
  • Weaver, R. (2009), ''The shadow of the end': The appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction', The end all around us: Apocalyptic texts and popular culture, Equinox 9781845532628.

Journal Articles

  • Power, T., Jackson, D., Weaver, R., Wilkes, L. and Carter, B. (2012), 'Autobiography as genre for qualitative research: A reservoir of experience for nursing research', Collegian, 5.
  • Wan Chik, W., Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Ramjan, L., Attwood, N., Weaver, R., Saad, Z. and Davidson, P. (2012), 'Gender difference in academic performance of nursing students in a Malaysian university', International Nursing Review, 7.
  • Wan Chik, W., Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Attwood, N., Attwood, N., Weaver, R., Saad, Z. and Davidson, P. (2012), 'Gender difference in academic performance of nursing students in a Malaysian university college', International Nursing Review, 7.
  • Weaver, R. (2012), 'Power, professional identity and the doctor who can heal all ailments', Medical Education, 2.
  • Weaver, R., Salamonson, Y., Koch, J. and Porter, G. (2012), 'The CSI effect at university: forensic science students' television viewing and perceptions of ethical issues', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 11.
  • Power, T., Jackson, D., Weaver, R., Wilkes, L. and Carter, B. (2012), 'Autobiography as genre for qualitative data : a reservoir of experience for nursing research', Collegian, 5.
  • Wan Chik, W., Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Attwood, N., Weaver, R., Saad, Z. and Davidson, P. (2012), 'Gender difference in academic performance of nursing students in a Malaysian university college', International Nursing Review, 7.
  • Weaver, R. and Jackson, D. (2012), 'Tragic heroes, moral guides and activists : representations of maternal grief, child death and tragedy in Australian newspapers', Health Sociology Review, 9.
  • Weaver, R., Salamonson, Y., Koch, J. and Porter, G. (2012), 'The CSI effect at university : forensic science students' television viewing and perceptions of ethical issues', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 11.
  • Weaver, R. (2012), 'Power, professional identity and the doctor who can heal all ailments', Medical Education, 2.
  • Jackson, D., Hutchinson, M., Everett, B., Mannix, J., Peters, K., Weaver, R. and Salamonson, Y. (2011), 'Struggling for legitimacy: Nursing students' stories of organisational aggression, resilience and resistance', Nursing Inquiry, 9.
  • Weaver, R. and Jackson, D. (2011), 'Evaluating an academic writing program for nursing students who have English as a second language', Contemporary Nurse, 9.
  • Wilkes, L., Peters, K., Weaver, R. and Jackson, D. (2011), 'Nurses involved in whistleblowing incidents: Sequelae for their families', Collegian, 6.
  • Weaver, R. and Wilson, I. (2011), 'Australian medical students' perceptions of professionalism and ethics in medical television programs', BMC Medical Education, .
  • Wilson, I., Weaver, R. and Salamonson, Y. (2011), 'Changes in learning approaches in first-year medical students', Focus on Health Professional Education, 8.
  • Weaver, R., Peters, K., Koch, J. and Wilson, I. (2011), ''Part of the team': Professional identity and social exclusivity in medical students', Medical Education, 10.
  • Weaver, R. (2011), 'Shapeshifting from the margins: Ethnicity and werewolves in the Twilight series', Journal of Children's Literature Studies, 20.
  • Salamonson, Y., Bourgeois, S., Everett, B., Weaver, R. and Peters, K. (2011), 'Psychometric testing of the abbreviated Clinical Learning Environment Inventory (CLEI-19)', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 9.
  • Power, T., Jackson, D., Weaver, R. and Carter, B. (2011), 'Social support for mothers in illness: A multifaceted phenomenon', Contemporary Nurse, .
  • Salamonson, Y., Koch, J., Weaver, R., Everett, B. and Jackson, D. (2010), 'Embedded academic writing support for nursing students with English as a second language', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 9.
  • Weaver, R. (2010), 'Terminal (Mis)diagnosis and the Physician-Patient Relationship in LM Montgomery's The Blue Castle', Journal of General Internal Medicine, 3.
  • Jackson, D., Peters, K., Andrew, S., Edenborough, M., Halcomb, E., Luck, L., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R. and Wilkes, L. (2010), 'Trial and retribution: A qualitative study of whistleblowing and workplace relationships in nursing', Advances in Contemporary Nursing, 11.
  • Weaver, R. (2010), 'Metaphors of monstrosity: The werewolf as disability and illness in Harry Potter and Jatta', Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 14.
  • Weaver, R. (2009), 'The shield of distance: Fearful borders at the edge of the world', Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature, 6.
  • Weaver, R. (2009), 'Commentary', Academic Medicine, 1.
  • Weaver, R. (2009), 'Medicine and the arts. Manic: [excerpt] by Plumb. Commentary.', Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2.
  • Andrew, S., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R., Smith, A., O'Reilly, R. and Taylor, C. (2008), 'Hate the course or hate to go: Semester differences in first year nursing attrition', Nurse Education Today, 8.
  • Weaver, R. (2007), ''The Four Horsemen of the Greenhouse Apocalypse': Apocalypse in the Science Fiction Novels of George Turner', Forum (Edinburgh), .
  • Weaver, R. (2006), 'At the end of the world: Australian adolescent literature and apocalypse', Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 14.

Research

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

This information has been contributed by Ms Weaver.

Previous Projects

Title:Medical role models in popular culture
Years:2009-09-22 - 2010-09-21
ID:P00017384
UWS Researchers:Roslyn Weaver
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Popular Culture and Professional Identity in Nursing and Forensic Science Students
Years:2010-11-30 - 2011-12-09
ID:P00019618
UWS Researchers:Roslyn Weaver, Yenna Salamonson, Debra Jackson and Glenn Porter
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Ms Weaver is available to co-supervise doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:DISRUPTED MOTHERING: A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
Field of Research:NURSING NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED

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