Associate Professor Marilys Guillemin
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Associate Professor Marilys Guillemin is the Director of the Centre for Health and Society. Marilys teaches postgraduate subjects in qualitative research design and research methods, and health ethics. With Lynn Gillam, Marilys has been awarded the Carrick/ALTC Australian Award for University Teaching in 2007 and the University of Melbourne David White Teaching Award in 2005. Marilys is a sociologist of health and illness. She has published widely in the areas of sociology of health, illness and technology, innovative research methodologies, research practice, narrative ethics, and ethical practice in research and in health care. She has completed a number of key research projects that include: the management of menopause within specialised clinic settings; mid-age women and heart disease particularly focusing on women's understanding of risk and prevention of heart disease; deafness and genetic testing; and research on how ethics committee members and health researchers understand research ethics and how they address ethical issues in practice. She is the author (with Lynn Gillam) of Telling Moments: Everyday ethics in health care (2006). Her current research focuses on the role of trust in human research from the perspectives of researchers and research participants.
Marilys is also the Associate Dean (Equity and Staff Development- ESD) in the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS). In this role she is responsible for leading the MDHS staff mentoring program and a number of other staff development initiatives. For further information please visit the ESD site on MDHS staff intranet: www.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au.
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