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Dr Janette Young

  • Lecturer in Health Sciences (Health Promotion & Health Services) School of Health Sciences
  • City East Campus (P4-15D)
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About me

  • pets
  • human: animal intersection
  • mental wellbeing

Hello!

I teach in the area of health promotion, and health as a political and politicised field. For me 'health promotion' offers creative edges on thinking about health; beyond merely aiming to increase length of life to how we think of health as justice, creativity and thriving. I have a particular interest in mental health and wellbeing and the human:animal intersection. I term my focus 'salutogenic' (what creates a good life/flourishing?) as versus pathogenic (how do we prevent disease/injury).

In my past life I was a social worker working in aged care, and worked on a range of projects in state government on issues such as domestic violence (including aboriginal family violence), homelessness (women,... Read more

School of Health Sciences

Offering a broad range of programs in physiotherapy, occupational therapy,human movement, and other health sciences.

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Hello!

I teach in the area of health promotion, and health as a political and politicised field. For me 'health promotion' offers creative edges on thinking about health; beyond merely aiming to increase length of life to how we think of health as justice, creativity and thriving. I have a particular interest in mental health and wellbeing and the human:animal intersection. I term my focus 'salutogenic' (what creates a good life/flourishing?) as versus pathogenic (how do we prevent disease/injury).

In my past life I was a social worker working in aged care, and worked on a range of projects in state government on issues such as domestic violence (including aboriginal family violence), homelessness (women, families and violence related), prisoner health, primary health care, education pathways, community capacity, and a range of other topics. This breadth of experiences shapes my interests in health as a complex outcome of individual and societal factors.

It was very early on in my social work career that I learnt that caring about people might mean caring about the animals that they share their lives with. This interest in the way humans and animals live their lives together has become the core focus of my research. I have been exploring the relationships between pets and (human) mental health, pets and older people (including suicide protection), and most recently the intersection of pets, disability, and assistance animals. My  aim is to identify how we can better integrate pets into Australian society as a means of promoting wellbeing for  those people for whom this is health promoting, keeping in mind the needs and rights of these animals. I have been writing and presenting in the field of animals, leisure and critical thinking (do/should animals such as those in captivity have leisure?) and often I use history and historical changes to reflect on this intersection. Who could believe nowadays that animal welfare trumped child welfare in the not so distant past? And what might this reality offer in terms of predicting and maybe even guiding future changes - in particular re the position of animals in human societies. It is an exciting space to be exploring at this time both academically but also practically as the way we think of animals seems to be shifting yet again. 

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Professional Associations

Australian Health Promotion Association (SA Branch) - President  2014 to 2016; Committee member 2009 to present

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Experience

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia

  • Master of Public Management Flinders University

  • Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Management Flinders University

  • Bachelor of Social Work South Australian Institute of Technology

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Research themes

  • An age friendly world

Highlights

Human : Animal intersection,-Pets and Mental Health,-Pets and older people,Critical systems and complexity thinking,Civic society as a resource,Leisure : non-leisure intersection

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Publication due 2018:

Janette Young and Neil Carr (eds) 2018. Domestic Animals, Humans, and Leisure: Rights, welfare, and wellbeing. Abingdon: Routledge.

Neil Carr & Janette Young (eds) 2018. Wild Animals and Leisure: Rights and Wellbeing. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ResearcherID or Scopus

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Year Output
2015

Young, J, McGrath, R & Adams, C 2015, 'Developing and refining a participatory educative model with Health Science students - a case study of practice', Participatory Educational Research, no. 2015-I, pp. 61-73.

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Books

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2018

Young, J & Carr, N 2018, Domestic animals, humans, and leisure: rights, welfare, and wellbeing, Routledge, UK.

Chapters

Year Output
2018

Young, J & Baker, A 2018, 'From labour to leisure: the relocation of animals in modern Western society', in J Young & N Carr (eds), Domestic animals, humans, and leisure: rights, welfare, and wellbeing, Routledge, UK, ch. 9, pp. 125-141.

2018

Young, J & Carr, N 2018, 'Domestic animals' leisure, rights, wellbeing: nuancing 'domestic', asymmetries and into the future', in J Young & N Carr (eds), Domestic animals, humans, and leisure: rights, welfare, and wellbeing, Routledge, UK, ch. 13, pp. 198-209.

2018

Young, J & Carr, N 2018, 'Introduction', in J Young & N Carr (eds), Domestic animals, humans, and leisure: rights, welfare, and wellbeing, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 13-22.

Journal Articles

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2017

Soltani, A, Pieters, J, Young, J & Sun, Z 2017, 'Exploring city branding strategies and their impacts on local tourism success, the case study of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan', Asia Pacific journal of tourism research, vol. 23, pp. 158-169.

2016

Young, J, O'Dwyer, L & McGrath, R 2016, 'Successful British migration to Australia: what lies beneath the macro-level?', Australian geographer, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 471-490.

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2015

Young, J, McGrath, R & Adams, C 2015, 'Developing and refining a participatory educative model with Health Science students - a case study of practice', Participatory Educational Research, no. 2015-I, pp. 61-73.

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2013

Young, J & Sarre, R 2013, 'Health promotion and crime prevention: recognising broader synergies', Health promotion journal of Australia, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 49-52.

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2011

Sarre, R & Young, J 2011, 'Christian approaches to the restorative justice movement : observations on scripture and praxis', Contemporary justice review, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 345-355.

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2011

Young, J & McGrath, R 2011, 'Exploring discourses of equity, social justice and social determinants in Australian health care policy and planning documents', Australian journal of primary health, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 369-377.

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2011

Young, J 2011, 'Immigration as domestic housing market expansion and planners' dream fulfilment: 1960s British migration to South Australia', Critical planning, vol. 18, pp. 71-90.

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2010

Young, JO 2010, 'Migration, Ethnicity and Privilege: An Exploration of Representation and Accountability', Systemic Practice and Action Research, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 101-113.

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2009

Young, JO 2009, 'Triangulating Public Administrational and Genealogical Data. The Case of Australian Migration Research', Historical Social Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 143-158.

2008

Young, JO 2008, 'Ethics, categories and identity: Counting on quantification. Ethnicity in Australian history', Systems Research and Behavioral Science, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 215-224.

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2009

Young, J, McGrath, RM & Filiault, S 2009, Linda Dale Bloomberg & Marie F. Volpe (2008). Completing your Qualitative Dissertation: A Roadmap from Begining to End.

Other outputs

Young, J. (2016). "Animals and tourism: understanding diverse relationships." Annals of Leisure Research: 1-3.

Janette Young (2015) At the nexus: serious leisure, civic engagement and animal welfare and wellbeing, in Domestic Animals and Leisure, Neil Carr (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, UK, (chapter 4).

Janette Young & Lisel O’Dwyer (2015) Pets and our health: why we should take them more seriously, The Conversation, Dec 2 2015  https://theconversation.com/pets-and-our-health-why-we-should-take-them-more-seriously-47774

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Human : Animal intersection,-Pets and Mental Health,-Pets and older people,Critical systems and complexity thinking,Civic society as a resource,Leisure : non-leisure intersection

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Flinders University AUSTRALIA
University of Otago NEW ZEALAND
University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
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Australian Health Promotion AssociationPresident (SA Branch) 2014 to present
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Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • HLTH 1041 Health Promotion (Theory and Concepts) (2017)
  • HLTH 1040 Health Concepts, Services and Trends (2018)
  • HLTH 1029 Foundations of Health (2018)
  • HLTH 1029 Foundations of Health (2017)
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