Dr Zina O'Leary
| Postal address: | Room 509, Law School Building (F 10) |
| Suburb: | The University of Sydney |
| State: | New South Wales |
| Postcode: | 2006 |
| Country: | Australia |
| Phone: | +61 (02) 9351 8662 |
| Email: | zina.oleary | at | sydney.edu.au |
Areas of expertise
- Evaluation
- Research methodology
- Public health practices and planning
Profile
Zina O'Leary is the Unit of Study Coordinator at The University of Sydney's Graduate School of Government. She is also the director of Made Simples videos, which produces animated public health videos. Prior to this, Dr O'Leary was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Natural Sciences, College of Health and Science at the University of Western Sydney.
Dr O'Leary specialises in environmental health development, research methodologies, change management and evaluation. She has worked as a Research Coordinator and Consultant for the Centre for Environmental Health Development at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre, where she has consulted with a number of health agencies across the Asia-Pacific region.
Dr O'Leary has a BA in Sociology and Psychology with a Minor in Philosophy and Certificate in Criminology from Rutgers University, and a Masters of Social Psychology and Methodology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She also has a PhD in methodology, social psychology, religion, modernity and postmodernity.
Programs
Dr O'Leary currently leads the Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) subject, Work-Base-Project.
Recent publications
- O'Leary, Z 2010, The essential guide to doing your research project, Sage, London.
- O'Leary, Z 2007, The social science jargon buster: key terms you need to know, Sage, London.
- O'Leary, Z 2005, Researching real-world problems: a guide to methods of inquiry, Sage, London.
- O'Leary, Z 2004, The essential guide to doing research, Sage, London.
- O'Leary, Z & Powis, B 2009, 'Wellness tourism and health promotion: healthy tourists and healthy environments', in R Bushell & P Sheldon, Wellness and tourism: mind, body, spirit, place, Cognizant Communication, New York.
- O'Leary, Z, Andersen, L, Ireland, J, Powis, B & Tamplin, S 2005, 'Meeting community public health through healthy hospital partnerships: children as common ground', in Health promotion: evidence, practice and policy, CMB, New York.
- O'Leary, Z 2001, 'Conversations in the kitchen', in A Bartlett & G Mercer (eds.), Postgraduate research supervision: transforming (r)elations, Peter Lang, New York.
- O'Leary, Z & Barry, L 2009, 'The generation of theory in qualitative analysis: an example from a study of rehabilitative programs in NSW women's prisons', Journal of Research Practice.
- O'Leary, Z, Mopako, T & Powis, B 2008, 'Towards local solid waste management plans: operational issues impacting on the municiap solid waste collection service in Botswana', Waste Management.
- O'Leary, Z & McCreadie, K 2005, 'The sale of out of date foods in the Republic of Palau', Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 12, no. 1 (March), pp. 33–37.
- O'Leary, Z, Tamplin, S, Davidson, D & Powis, B 2005, 'Issues and options for the safe destruction and disposal of used injection materials', Waste Management, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 655–665.
- O'Leary, Z, Brear, M, Powis, B & Davidson, D 2004, 'Evaluating community participation in a healthy islands setting: towards evidence based decision making', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 137–141.
- O'Leary, Z & Powis, B 2004, 'Finding new direction for environmental health practice in Fiji', Environmental Health Focus, vol. 2, no. 1 (August).
- O'Leary, Z, Powis, B & Litidamu, N 2003, 'Re-orienting environmental health practice in Fiji: lessons learnt from a national policy institute', Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 10, no. 2 (September).
- O'Leary, Z & Ambu, S 2003, 'Frameworks for research: traversing disciplinary boundaries', Environmental Health Focus, vol. 1, no. 1 (March).
- O'Leary, Z, Benedict, I, Nicholson, R & Tranter, M 2003, 'Healthy workplaces', Environmental Health Focus, vol. 1, no. 1 (March).
- O'Leary, Z, Powis, B & Litidamu, N 2003, 'Integrating plans, practice, and place in Fiji: settings approaches to national environmental health planning', Environmental Health Focus, vol. 1, no. 1 (March).
- O'Leary, Z 2000, 'Apostasy: exploring resistance and transformation', Australian Religion Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1 (Autumn).
- O'Leary, Z & Richardson, J 2011, 'Low GI Made Simple', Made Simple Videos, Sydney.
- O'Leary, Z & Ambu, S 2002, Developing a framework for integrated research methodologies: the EHRC experience, CEHD, WHO Collaborating Centre, Richmond NSW.
- O'Leary, Z & Powis, B 2002, Palau healthy islands report on progress, CEHD, WHO Collaborating Centre, Richmond NSW.
- O'Leary, Z & Powis, B 2001, A NEHAP for Palau, CEHD, WHO Collaborating Centre, Richmond NSW.
- O'Leary, Z, Anderson, L, Ireland, J, Powis, B & Tamplin, T 2004, 'Developing healthy hospital partnerships: meeting community public health needs through the window of children', presented at the Health Promotion: Evidence, Practice and Policy Conference, Chiang Mai, October 20–22.
- O'Leary, Z & Smithers, S 2001, 'The cockfight as a release for masculine passions', presented at the Men's Health Conference, Sydney, September 24–28.
- O'Leary, Z & Sidoti, A 2001, 'Extreme or mundane: negotiations of violence in a university setting', presented at the Building Bridges Conference on Violence against Women, Sydney, September 21.
- O'Leary, Z 2001, 'Managing method: reframing the relationship between empirical science and the postmodern critique', paper at the Association for Qualitative Research (AQR), July 5–7.
- O'Leary, Z, Powis, B & Sidoti, A 2002, The National Environmental Health Action Plans (NEHAP), CEHD, WHO Collaborating Centre, Richmond NSW.
- O'Leary, Z & Powis, B 2001, Towards a Palau NEHAP, CEHD, WHO Collaborating Centre, Richmond NSW.
- O'Leary, Z 2000, Research methods: sicence in context: external teaching package, UWS Hawkesbury, Richmond NSW.