Griffith University

• Griffith Health Institute
• Population and Social Health Research Program
• Senior Research Fellow (Healthy People, Healthy Places)

Contact details for Dr Naomi Sunderland

Research Expertise

• qualitative research methodologies;
  
• creative narrative research;
  
• sensory ethnography;
  
• music and sound in social life;
• happiness and wellbeing

Publications

• Sunderland, N., Graham, P., Isaacs, P. and McKenna, B. (Eds.) (2008). Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics. Taiwan, Taipei: Sense Publishers.
  Resulted from my PhD titled ‘Biotechnology as media’ (2004) and the conference ‘Towards Humane Technologies’ (2002). Both framed biotechnology as a series of discursive shifts between multiple contexts of practice.
• Sunderland, N. (2008). Biotechnology, Society, and Ecology, In Sunderland, N., Graham, P., Isaacs, P. and McKenna, B. (2009). Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics. Taiwan, Taipei: Sense Publishers.
  Details the theoretical framework of my PhD which provided an entirely new way of conceptualising biotechnology and associated ethical frameworks. Used as basis for high school biotechnology ethics resources nationally.
• Sunderland, N. (2009). Virtuous or Vicious? Agency and Representation in Biotechnology’s Virtuous Cycle. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Vol. 39(4) 381-400, 2009.
  Arose from PhD corpus analysis. Nominated for National College of Teachers of English (USA) Award for Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication in 2010.
• Kendall, E. Sunderland, N. Muenchberger, H., Armstrong, K. (2009). When guidelines need guidance. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 15, 1082-1090.
  Extensive review of literature on how general practitioners (GPs) use evidence-based guidelines resulting in requested post doctoral fellow in the current proposal. Journal impact factor 1.487.
• Sunderland, N. Catalano, T. Kendall, E. Chenoweth, L. McAuliffe, D. (2010). Exploring the Concept of Moral Distress with Community-Based Researchers: An Australian Study. Journal of Social Service Research. 37(1), 73-85.
  Entirely novel application of concept of moral distress to community based research. Adapted previous theory from nursing. Presentation to university ethics committee resulted in change in university ethics and training.
• Sunderland, N. Catalano, T., Kendall, E. (2009). Missing discourses: Concepts of joy and happiness in disability and rehabilitation policy, discourse, and practice. Disability and Society. Volume 24, Number 6,
• Discourse analysis of existing disability lived experience data compared with Australian policy documents. Substantially informs current proposal. One of the top journals in the disability field. Impact factor 0.762.
• Sunderland, N., & Graham P (1998). The importance of academic community in higher learning: Alternatives to a drive-thru education. Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim Conference on Higher Education. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, 5-8 July 1998.
  Review of literature and focus group data documenting shift toward framing students as clients in Australian universities. Included theoretical framework from my honours dissertation: higher education as a social practice.
• Sunderland, N. and Arthurs, A. (2010). Music as narrative. In E. Woodley and E. Milligan (2010). Confounding Narrative. Cambridge University Press.
  Represents recent scholarship developing rich media forms of representing and analysing lived experience. Invited interdisciplinary treatment of the topic. Contributes understanding of how creative narrative can be used as data/evidence.
• Sunderland, N., Johnstone, K. Kendall, E. Harris, P., McKeown, P. (2010). Health Promotion Practitioners Experiences of Moral Distress: Building a rationale for learning communities Australian Health Promotion Association, 19th Annual Conference, Walking the Talk Together, Melbourne, 30 May - 2 June 2010.
  Collaborative paper with industry partners. Arose from visiting fellow research in Canada during 2009. Findings indicated moral distress as significant issue. Extremely positive audience response.
• Sunderland, N. (2002). Silence, silencing, and the silenced. Paper presented at the Biotechnology Ethics Interest Group seminar, 20 June 2002. Brisbane QLD: Queensland University of Technology.
  Had significant impact in the local networks of scientists, ethicists, policy makers, and advocates debating biotechnology policy. Concepts of silencing and agency informed later publication ‘Virtuous or Vicious’ listed above.