Health Promotion Research staff, Jennifer infanti

Dr. Jennifer Infanti, BA, PhD, Researcher, Health Promotion Research Centre

Profile

Jennifer completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at Massey University in New Zealand, exploring children's experiences of domestic violence through life-story interviewing and a community-based intervention programme.  Following that, she worked as a Project Officer at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland.  Jennifer joined the Department of Health Promotion in October 2011.  She is involved in lecturing on qualitative research methods and research on risk communication on communicable diseases in the European Union.

Research Interests

Narrative inquiry
Community-based action research
Socio-cultural constructions of children and childhood
Family violence
Well-being and resilience
Harm reduction

Teaching Interests

Qualitative research methods
Reflective practice
Community development
International health/aid/development

Selected Publications, Reports, Presentations

2009. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Core documents: Performance-based funding.  Available online from: http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/performance/Performance_PerformanceBasedFunding_Brochure_en/.

2008.  Telling lives: Children’s stories of hope, loss, love and violence in Aotearoa/New Zealand.   PhD thesis (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand).  Available online from:  http://muir.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/10179/708/1/02whole.pdf

2006. “Children, Family Violence, and Hope-in-the-Making in Aotearoa/New Zealand,” in Hope: Probing the Boundaries, Volume 42. Edited by R. Green and J. Horrigan, ISBN: 978-1-904710-41-7. 

2006. "Writing Children’s Stories of Domestic Violence: Experimentations with Forms." Poster presented at Asia Pacific Childhoods Conference, Knowing Children Institute – Singapore, 17-20 July 2006. 

2005. “Making sense of family violence in New Zealand: Childrens’ experiences.” Poster presented at 10th International Conference on Family Violence, Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma – San Diego, California, 18-21 September 2005.

2004. “What Works in Research with Children on Family Violence”. Poster presented at Social Policy, Research & Evaluation Conference 2004, Wellington, New Zealand, 25-26 November 2004.

2004. “The Practical and Ethical Challenges of Fieldwork with Children on Sensitive Subjects.” Paper presented at Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference: Moving Anthropology-Motion, Emotion and Knowledge, The University of Melbourne – Melbourne, Australia, 28 September-1 October 2004. 

2004. “Social Inclusion and Literature Review,” with Mike Toye, Canadian CED Network. Available online from: http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/node/9464.

2003. “An Inventory of Provincial and Territorial Government Support to CED in Canada,” Canadian CED Network. Available online from: http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/node/879.

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