| Ms Erminia Colucci |
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Research Fellow |
| Biography |
After a Diploma in Education, and a first class honours degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Padua (Italy), Erminia (Emy) trained as a researcher at The Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP),Griffith University, Brisbane.
In 2003 she won the Australian International post-graduate research scholarships (UQIPRS and IPRS), which supported her PhD project “The cultural meaning of suicide: A comparison between Italian, Indian and Australian students” at The University of Queensland. Her project was awarded the 2004 UQ Travel Award and the 2005 Dr Helen Row–Zonta Memorial Prize.
In 2006, Erminia was a visiting scholar in the Centre for the International Mental Health (CIMH), School of Population Health, at The University of Melbourne where she currently works as a Research Fellow. At present, she is involved in suicide research in India, Japan and Philippines.
She has a strong interest in spirituality and suicide and indigenous suicide and has presented about the cultural aspects of suicide, spirituality and related topics internationally and has authored journal papers and other publications on these topics.
Her other main research interests are on the cultural aspects of mental illness and wellbeing, traditional/alternative healing, the use of arts in research (especially film-documentary) and prevention and qualitative methodology (in particular, focus groups, ethnography and narrative analysis).
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