Tracy Fortune
Biographic Data
| ID | 6468808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Fortune |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Fortune |
| SIGNATURE | FORTUNE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3622-0828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Care, kindness and collegiality in occupational therapy practice and academic life
This paper explores the reflections of occupational therapy academics about the experience of kindness in academic and professional life. Data were derived from a reflective group conversation in the context of a larger overarching research project exploring occupational therapy academic development. The findings elaborate how kindness and care played out for us as participant-researcher academics, including how it was mediated by expression of v…
Reimagining the university of our dreams
This paper focuses on the experiences of four facilitators of a group mentoring programme for doctoral students aspiring to become academics. The methodology utilised collective sensemaking in a collaborative autoethnography. Aided by agreed reflective prompts, we initially analysed our own and each other’s written accounts. This illuminated the motivations and hopes accompanying us into the project, as well as our individual experience of being …
Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace
Over the past three decades, “lived experience” designated roles in mental health services in Australia have increased. However, the lived experience of staff in roles not designated in this way is often hidden or unacknowledged. This qualitative study included 33 participants employed in a range of roles at two Victorian mental health services, including 10 social workers. Interviews explored staff perspectives regarding the sharing of lived exp…
Conceptualising and educating for global citizenship
Education for global citizenship is one of many of strategies adopted by higher education institutions. We share the findings of a qualitative study in one Australian university that examined the impact of a university goal to embed global citizenship. We found Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to be a suitable framework to examine the process of developing global citizens at our institution. Our findings suggest that university strategies at the…
Supporting the Sharing of Mental Health Challenges in the Workplace
Personal experience with mental health (MH) challenges has been characterized as a concealable stigma. Identity management literature suggests actively concealing a stigma may negatively impact wellbeing. Reviews of workplace identity management literature have linked safety in revealing a stigma to individual performance, well-being, engagement and teamwork. However, no research to date has articulated the factors that make sharing MH challenges…
Students positioned as global citizens in Australian and New Zealand universities
Higher education plays a critical role in producing society’s leaders by preparing graduates with the knowledge, capabilities and disposition to appreciate diversity and address social injustice. Many higher education institutions within and beyond Australia have aimed to internationalise their curricula to ensure students achieve capabilities that enable them to contribute to an evolving global knowledge economy. However, the inclusion of global…
Place for being, doing, becoming and belonging
Struggling Learners and the Language Immersion Classroom
The proto‐occupation / occupation interface
This paper will explore one possible scenario of the origin of distinctly human occupation. A synthesis is presented of many explanations for what may have propelled proto‐human behaviour from a state of symbolically limited proto‐occupational behaviour to a more complex level. The scenario offered suggests that the first collectively symbolic action occurred during primitive rituals, where the power of a blood taboo initiated by females, motivat…
Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace
Over the past three decades, “lived experience” designated roles in mental health services in Australia have increased. However, the lived experience of staff in roles not designated in this way is often hidden or unacknowledged. This qualitative study included 33 participants employed in a range of roles at two Victorian mental health services, including 10 social workers. Interviews explored staff perspectives regarding the sharing of lived exp…
The proto‐occupation / occupation interface
This paper will explore one possible scenario of the origin of distinctly human occupation. A synthesis is presented of many explanations for what may have propelled proto‐human behaviour from a state of symbolically limited proto‐occupational behaviour to a more complex level. The scenario offered suggests that the first collectively symbolic action occurred during primitive rituals, where the power of a blood taboo initiated by females, motivat…
The proto‐occupation / occupation interface
This paper will explore one possible scenario of the origin of distinctly human occupation. A synthesis is presented of many explanations for what may have propelled proto‐human behaviour from a state of symbolically limited proto‐occupational behaviour to a more complex level. The scenario offered suggests that the first collectively symbolic action occurred during primitive rituals, where the power of a blood taboo initiated by females, motivat…
Struggling Learners and the Language Immersion Classroom
Place for being, doing, becoming and belonging
Students positioned as global citizens in Australian and New Zealand universities
Higher education plays a critical role in producing society’s leaders by preparing graduates with the knowledge, capabilities and disposition to appreciate diversity and address social injustice. Many higher education institutions within and beyond Australia have aimed to internationalise their curricula to ensure students achieve capabilities that enable them to contribute to an evolving global knowledge economy. However, the inclusion of global…
Supporting the Sharing of Mental Health Challenges in the Workplace
Personal experience with mental health (MH) challenges has been characterized as a concealable stigma. Identity management literature suggests actively concealing a stigma may negatively impact wellbeing. Reviews of workplace identity management literature have linked safety in revealing a stigma to individual performance, well-being, engagement and teamwork. However, no research to date has articulated the factors that make sharing MH challenges…
Conceptualising and educating for global citizenship
Education for global citizenship is one of many of strategies adopted by higher education institutions. We share the findings of a qualitative study in one Australian university that examined the impact of a university goal to embed global citizenship. We found Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to be a suitable framework to examine the process of developing global citizens at our institution. Our findings suggest that university strategies at the…
Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace
Over the past three decades, “lived experience” designated roles in mental health services in Australia have increased. However, the lived experience of staff in roles not designated in this way is often hidden or unacknowledged. This qualitative study included 33 participants employed in a range of roles at two Victorian mental health services, including 10 social workers. Interviews explored staff perspectives regarding the sharing of lived exp…
Care, kindness and collegiality in occupational therapy practice and academic life
This paper explores the reflections of occupational therapy academics about the experience of kindness in academic and professional life. Data were derived from a reflective group conversation in the context of a larger overarching research project exploring occupational therapy academic development. The findings elaborate how kindness and care played out for us as participant-researcher academics, including how it was mediated by expression of v…
Reimagining the university of our dreams
This paper focuses on the experiences of four facilitators of a group mentoring programme for doctoral students aspiring to become academics. The methodology utilised collective sensemaking in a collaborative autoethnography. Aided by agreed reflective prompts, we initially analysed our own and each other’s written accounts. This illuminated the motivations and hopes accompanying us into the project, as well as our individual experience of being …
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Social science (3 works)