Julia Mccartan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Mccartan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccartan |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5765-8124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strengthening Indigenous food security in remote Northern Australia
The Northern Territory (NT) of Australia faces unique social, political, economic, and geographical food security challenges for Aboriginal Communities. International research and policy have advocated for greater coherence across government policies that support Indigenous-grounded perspectives on food security. While the need for cross-government collaboration to support community food security is recognised in national policies, implementation…
Strengths and problems with competency-based anti-Indigenous racism education
INTRODUCTION: Racism in healthcare remains persistent and particularly impacts Indigenous Peoples. Antiracism has been conceptualised as a framework to address racism, outlining that all individuals have the responsibility to actively address and prevent racism. Although accreditation standards in health professions programs often emphasise healthcare equity with Indigenous Peoples, health professionals can graduate without antiracism skills. Thr…
Responding to urgent calls for fit-for-purpose planetary health curricula
Purpose Health professionals play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis and contributing to sustainable development. However, despite urgent calls from experts and health professions students, tertiary education currently lacks fit-for-purpose planetary health curricula. This study aims to provide a comprehensive, Australia-wide examination of planetary health curricula offered within two health professions: nutrition and dietetics. Des…
Decolonising, Indigenising, or critical Indigenous studies? A nine-year case study in designing education for the health professions
There are global calls to improve health professions education design to assist in strengthening healthcare equity for Indigenous peoples. This case study aimed to investigate Aboriginal health curriculum design and development occurring across a large urban health faculty in Australia. This was achieved by auditing curricula for 9 years and narrating events occurring alongside this. Decolonising, Indigenising, and critical Indigenous studies are…
Equipping our public health nutrition workforce to promote planetary health
Objective: The public health nutrition workforce is well placed to contribute to bold climate action; however, tertiary educators are seeking practical examples of how to adequately prepare our future workforce. This study examines the responses of university students engaged in a co-designed planetary health education workshop as part of their public health nutrition training. Design: A mixed-methods approach was used to collect and interpret st…
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia
The Australian continent has over 6500 edible endemic plant species, fourteen of which have been certified for commercial consumption. This paper seeks to critically analyze select Australian Commonwealth Government policy relating to these Aboriginal plant foods. The aim is to purposefully examine the positioning of non-Indigenous people in Aboriginal plant foods policy discourse and reveal tacit settler colonial power relations. This is in resp…
Methodological tensions for non-Indigenous people in Indigenous research
There are complex ethical issues about appropriate roles, responsibilities and methodologies for non-Indigenous people researching Indigenous Peoples and contexts. As a research methodology, critical discourse analysis (CDA) may expose colonial power and inequities through an examination of language and discourse. This study examined, via a scoping review, non-Indigenous researcher CDA application when analysing discourse relating to Aboriginal a…
Can integrating Aboriginal health content in undergraduate nutrition curricula foster student cultural capabilities
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2014) identifies the need for Australian higher education providers to develop health professional students’ cultural capabilities. This study investigated whether integrating the Framework’s learning outcomes into undergraduate nutrition curricula changed higher education students’ self-rated cultural capability learning. A sample of 105 Bachelor of Nutrition Science students…
Using unfolding case studies to better prepare the public health nutrition workforce to address the social determinants of health
Objective The public health nutrition workforce has been reported to be underprepared for practice. The present study aimed to test the ability of an unfolding case study approach to support the public health nutrition workforce for the workplace, with a focus on improved access to nutritious food. Design Two unfolding case studies were trialled with undergraduate students in two-hour workshops to enhance their capability to address access to nut…
The impact of social enterprise on food insecurity – An Australian case study
Like many high-income countries, in Australia there are a range of programmes in place, from social security to food banks, to help address food insecurity. So far, they have been unable to adequately alleviate and prevent this growing nutrition challenge. This paper presents an evaluation of a new type of intervention in the food security landscape, the social enterprise. The Community Grocer is a social enterprise that operates weekly fresh fru…
The role of a food policy coalition in influencing a local food environment
Objective To explore how an Australian rural food policy coalition acts to influence a local food environment, focusing specifically on its composition, functions and processes as well as its food-related strategies and policy outputs. Design A qualitative case study approach was undertaken. Three sources were used to triangulate data: eleven semi-structured in-depth interviews with coalition members, analysis of thirty-seven documents relating t…
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The role of a food policy coalition in influencing a local food environment
Objective To explore how an Australian rural food policy coalition acts to influence a local food environment, focusing specifically on its composition, functions and processes as well as its food-related strategies and policy outputs. Design A qualitative case study approach was undertaken. Three sources were used to triangulate data: eleven semi-structured in-depth interviews with coalition members, analysis of thirty-seven documents relating t…
Using unfolding case studies to better prepare the public health nutrition workforce to address the social determinants of health
Objective The public health nutrition workforce has been reported to be underprepared for practice. The present study aimed to test the ability of an unfolding case study approach to support the public health nutrition workforce for the workplace, with a focus on improved access to nutritious food. Design Two unfolding case studies were trialled with undergraduate students in two-hour workshops to enhance their capability to address access to nut…
The impact of social enterprise on food insecurity – An Australian case study
Like many high-income countries, in Australia there are a range of programmes in place, from social security to food banks, to help address food insecurity. So far, they have been unable to adequately alleviate and prevent this growing nutrition challenge. This paper presents an evaluation of a new type of intervention in the food security landscape, the social enterprise. The Community Grocer is a social enterprise that operates weekly fresh fru…
Can integrating Aboriginal health content in undergraduate nutrition curricula foster student cultural capabilities
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2014) identifies the need for Australian higher education providers to develop health professional students’ cultural capabilities. This study investigated whether integrating the Framework’s learning outcomes into undergraduate nutrition curricula changed higher education students’ self-rated cultural capability learning. A sample of 105 Bachelor of Nutrition Science students…
Methodological tensions for non-Indigenous people in Indigenous research
There are complex ethical issues about appropriate roles, responsibilities and methodologies for non-Indigenous people researching Indigenous Peoples and contexts. As a research methodology, critical discourse analysis (CDA) may expose colonial power and inequities through an examination of language and discourse. This study examined, via a scoping review, non-Indigenous researcher CDA application when analysing discourse relating to Aboriginal a…
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia
The Australian continent has over 6500 edible endemic plant species, fourteen of which have been certified for commercial consumption. This paper seeks to critically analyze select Australian Commonwealth Government policy relating to these Aboriginal plant foods. The aim is to purposefully examine the positioning of non-Indigenous people in Aboriginal plant foods policy discourse and reveal tacit settler colonial power relations. This is in resp…
Responding to urgent calls for fit-for-purpose planetary health curricula
Purpose Health professionals play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis and contributing to sustainable development. However, despite urgent calls from experts and health professions students, tertiary education currently lacks fit-for-purpose planetary health curricula. This study aims to provide a comprehensive, Australia-wide examination of planetary health curricula offered within two health professions: nutrition and dietetics. Des…
Decolonising, Indigenising, or critical Indigenous studies? A nine-year case study in designing education for the health professions
There are global calls to improve health professions education design to assist in strengthening healthcare equity for Indigenous peoples. This case study aimed to investigate Aboriginal health curriculum design and development occurring across a large urban health faculty in Australia. This was achieved by auditing curricula for 9 years and narrating events occurring alongside this. Decolonising, Indigenising, and critical Indigenous studies are…
Equipping our public health nutrition workforce to promote planetary health
Objective: The public health nutrition workforce is well placed to contribute to bold climate action; however, tertiary educators are seeking practical examples of how to adequately prepare our future workforce. This study examines the responses of university students engaged in a co-designed planetary health education workshop as part of their public health nutrition training. Design: A mixed-methods approach was used to collect and interpret st…
Strengthening Indigenous food security in remote Northern Australia
The Northern Territory (NT) of Australia faces unique social, political, economic, and geographical food security challenges for Aboriginal Communities. International research and policy have advocated for greater coherence across government policies that support Indigenous-grounded perspectives on food security. While the need for cross-government collaboration to support community food security is recognised in national policies, implementation…
Strengths and problems with competency-based anti-Indigenous racism education
INTRODUCTION: Racism in healthcare remains persistent and particularly impacts Indigenous Peoples. Antiracism has been conceptualised as a framework to address racism, outlining that all individuals have the responsibility to actively address and prevent racism. Although accreditation standards in health professions programs often emphasise healthcare equity with Indigenous Peoples, health professionals can graduate without antiracism skills. Thr…
Political science (7 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Food security (3 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works)