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Jane Farmer is affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields with primary focus on social sciences and health professions. Within these main fields, their publications frequently address general health professions and sociology and political science as subfields, as well as topics related to management of technology and innovation and artificial intelligence.

Their work extensively covers several main research areas. These include mental health and patient involvement, health disparities and outcomes, entrepreneurship studies and influences, community health and development, disaster management and resilience, global health workforce issues, and homelessness and social issues.

Jane Farmer has contributed to a variety of academic publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • What Is Rural Adversity, How Does It Affect Wellbeing and What Are the Implications for Action? (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • How to systematically analyze co-production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co-production (2022, Public Administration Review)
  • Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing: A qualitative GIS study of three social enterprises (2020, Health & Place)
  • Social media for social good? A thematic, spatial and visual analysis of humanitarian action on Instagram (2020, Information Communication & Society)
  • Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens's Structuration Theory (2021, Business & Society)

Frequent coauthors with whom Jane Farmer has collaborated include:

  • Anthony McCosker
  • Peter Kamstra
  • Tracy De Cotta
  • Sue Kilpatrick
  • Debra Morgan

Key venues for publication where Jane Farmer's work appears regularly are:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Information Communication & Society
  • Journal of Rural Studies

Best Publications

  • Community participation in rural health: a scoping review

    Amanda Kenny;Nerida Hyett;John Sawtell;Virginia Dickson-Swift

  • Measuring oral health literacy: a scoping review of existing tools

    Virginia Dickson-Swift;Amanda Kenny;Jane Farmer;Mark Gussy

  • Processes of community-led social enterprise development: learning from the rural context

    Sarah-Anne Munoz;Artur Steiner;Jane Farmer

  • A scoping review of the association between rural medical education and rural practice location

    Jane Farmer;Amanda Kenny;Carol McKinstry;Richard D Huysmans

  • Sustaining the rural primary healthcare workforce: survey of healthcare professionals in the Scottish Highlands.

    Helen M Richards;Jane Farmer;Sivasubramaniam Selvaraj

  • Rural/urban differences in accounts of patients’ initial decisions to consult primary care

    Jane Farmer;Lisa Iversen;Neil C. Campbell;Clare Guest

  • Dr John has gone: assessing health professionals' contribution to remote rural community sustainability in the UK.

    Jane Farmer;William Lauder;Helen Richards;Siobhan Sharkey

  • Community participation for rural health: a review of challenges.

    Amanda Kenny;Jane Farmer;Virginia Dickson-Swift;Nerida Hyett

  • Social capital, rural nursing and rural nursing theory.

    William Lauder;Sally Reel;Jane Farmer;Harvey Griggs

  • Geographic distribution of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain.

    Masatoshi Matsumoto;Kazuo Inoue;Jane Farmer;Haruhiko Inada

  • Are rural health professionals also social entrepreneurs

    Jane Farmer;Sue Kilpatrick

  • Social enterprise and wellbeing in community life

    Jane Farmer;Tracy De Cotta;Katharine McKinnon;Jo Barraket

  • The social enterprise as a space of well-being: an exploratory case study

    Sarah-Anne Munoz;Jane Farmer;Rachel Winterton;Jo Barraket

  • Models of intrapartum care and women's trade-offs in remote and rural Scotland: a mixed methods study

    E. Pitchforth;V. Watson;J. Tucker;Mandy P. Ryan

  • Rural deprivation: reflecting reality.

    Jane Farmer;Anne Baird;Lisa Iversen

  • Workload pressures in rural general practice: a qualitative investigation.

    Lisa Iversen;Jane Farmer;Philip Christopher Hannaford

  • Territorial tensions: misaligned management and community perspectives on health services for older people in remote rural areas.

    Jane Farmer;Lorna Philip;Gerry King;John Farrington

  • Applying social innovation theory to examine how community co-designed health services develop: using a case study approach and mixed methods.

    Jane Farmer;Karen Carlisle;Virginia Dickson-Swift;Simon Teasdale

  • What older people want: evidence from a study of remote Scottish communities.

    Geraldine King;Jane Farmer

  • Community Co-Production : Social Enterprise in Remote and Rural Communities

    Jane Farmer;Carol Hill;Sarah-Anne Munoz

  • Citizen participation in health services co-production: a roadmap for navigating participation types and outcomes

    Jane Farmer;Judy Taylor;Ellen Stewart;Amanda Kenny

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin van Teijlingen
Edwin van Teijlingen Bournemouth University
Fiona Harris
Fiona Harris University of the West of Scotland
Debra Morgan
Debra Morgan University of Saskatchewan
Luis Salvador-Carulla
Luis Salvador-Carulla Australian National University
Christine Bigby
Christine Bigby La Trobe University
Georgina Luscombe
Georgina Luscombe University of Sydney
Simon Teasdale
Simon Teasdale Queen's University Belfast
John M. MacDonald
John M. MacDonald University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Lyons
Anthony Lyons La Trobe University
Ross S. Bailie
Ross S. Bailie University of Sydney

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