Pauline MarshUniversity of Tasmania · centre for rural health
Pauline Marsh
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Introduction
Pauline Marsh currently works at the Centre for Rural Health, University of Tasmania. Pauline is a social researcher, with interests in Health Geography, Therapeutic Horticulture and Comprehensive Primary Health. Her current projects are: A study on the social and wellbeing impacts of therapeutic horticulture; DIGnity Supported Community Gardening as a tool for enabling dementia inclusivity; and Experiences of caring and palliation in rural areas.
Publications
Publications (35)
Gardening has the potential to enhance health and well-being, through increased physical activity and social connectedness. However, while much is known about the benefits of garden activities, less is known about the potential health implications of more passive forms of engagement with gardens, for example, viewing gardens. In addition, much gard...
Just as ecological degradation contributes to many public health problems, restoration of these areas can be health-enabling not only for the environment but also for people. However, despite growing recognition of the positive relationships between ecological restoration and human health, knowledge gaps persist. Rural areas are most closely affect...
Background
Accessing quality palliative care, especially at the end of life is vital in reducing physical and emotional distress and optimising quality of life. For people living in rural and remote Australia, telehealth services can be effective in providing access to after-hours palliative care.
Objective
To review and map the available evidence...
Environmental risk factors specific to urban areas lead to urban-associated diseases such as allergies, asthma and mental health disorders. To address these diseases, there has been a shift towards using urban nature as a preventative and therapeutic tool to restore and enhance human wellbeing.
Some studies of self and landscape in festival events emphasise presence, closeness, and connectedness and focus on embodiment, inhabitation, and dwelling. But in the COVID-19 pandemic, absence and distance appear as increasingly common terms to describe festival events and landscapes that have changed in unanticipated ways. The risk that festivals...
Gardening has the potential to improve health and wellbeing, especially during crises. Using an international survey of gardeners (n = 3743), this study aimed to understand everyday gardening experiences, perspectives and attitudes during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Our qualitative reflexive thematic and sentiment analyses show t...
COVID-19 has deeply affected mass gatherings and travel and, in the process, has transformed festivals, festival landscapes, and people's sense of place in relation to such events. In this article we argue that it is important to better understand how people's memories of festival landscapes are affected by these larger shifts. We worked from the p...
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted social life. Gardens and yards have seemingly risen as a lifeline during the pandemic. Here, we investigated the relationship between people and gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic and what factors influenced the ability of people to garden. We examined survey responses (n = 3,743) from gardeners who...
Introduction
After-hours services are essential in ensuring patients with life limiting illness and their caregivers are supported to enable continuity of care. Telehealth is a valuable approach to meeting after-hours support needs of people living with life-limiting illness, their families, and caregivers in rural and remote communities. It is imp...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries experienced something of a boom in interest in gardening. Gardens have long been considered as refuges into which we retreat to escape various struggles and challenges. In this study we examine the characteristics and functions of the garden as a refuge during the period of increased garden interest asso...
Objective: To explore the capacity and responsiveness of the Home Care Package (HCP) Program to deliver the promise of a meaningful life for rural residents.Methods: In-depth interviews utilising appreciative enquiry in two local government areas in rural/outer regional Tasmania (MM2-6). Participants: Rural staff and residents who were either recei...
Australia is currently grappling with a range of social and environmental challenges, many of which impact the way our public health system, and society more broadly, function. In this short communication paper we explore urban agriculture in Australia as a Nature-Based Solution (NBS) to address some of the ecological, social, economic and health c...
The evidence base for the benefits of urban nature for people and biodiversity is strong. However, cities are diverse and the social and environmental contexts of cities are likely to influence the observed effects of urban nature, and the application of evidence to differing contexts. To explore biases in the evidence base for the effects of urban...
Campus community gardens (CCGs) can potentially improve student health and wellbeing,
mitigate social and ecological problems, and nurture university-community relationships. However,
CCGs are located in complex socio-political and ecological settings and many community gardens
struggle or fail. However, few studies have assessed the socio-politica...
Objective
To explore residential aged care facility (RACF) residents’ use of communal garden sites as spaces for gardening and social connection.
Methods
Phenomenological inquiry using semi‐structured interviews with 13 residents, family members and staff of a rural RACF.
Results
Interest, ability and willingness to engage in communal garden site...
Engagement in green spaces impacts positively on wellbeing and quality of life. However, little is known about the impacts of green space engagement specifically for people living with the experience of dementia in the community; people with a heightened need to maintain a quality life. In this mixed study review, we explore existing evidence for q...
Problem:
Barriers, including distance and lack of transport, make it difficult for young people to access mental health services such as headspace.
Design:
A collaborative mental health outreach service initiative with outcome measures assessed at baseline and after 2 years.
Setting:
The service was designed and implemented by headspace Hobart...
Bereavement care practice guidelines assist in delivering high‐quality bereavement care. However, the quality of published guidelines is unknown. A systematic review was conducted to identify and evaluate the quality of the process used to develop bereavement care practice guidelines using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AG...
Objective:
To improve understandings of the enablers and barriers to maintaining good quality of life for people dying, caring and grieving in rural areas.
Design and setting:
In-depth interviews designed on participatory research principles were held with bereaved carers living in a small community in rural Tasmania. Participants had cared for...
Taking risks is a part of everyday living, and a contributor to our sense of dignity. Yet as people age, or develop cognitive, mental or physical impairments, opportunities to take risks can diminish. A life without risks can erode a person’s dignity. The purpose of this narrative review was to explore the application of the concepts of the Dignity...
A supported community gardening program became appealing and therapeutically beneficial to people living with the impacts of dementia and their carers, despite not targeting either cohort specifically. This paper discusses how this program provides insights into the landscape of dementia inclusivity. The gardens involved were spaces that allowed po...
Using a participatory research framework, researchers at the Centre for Rural Health, University of Tasmania, explored the potential of Community Gardens to function as comprehensive primary healthcare (CPHC) environments. Community gardeners, coordinators, volunteers and Neighbourhood House coordinators discussed their understandings of the health...
A review of bereavement care standards. Bereavement care standards (BCS) are statements regarding the care of bereaved individuals, to ensure that people who deliver care do so safely, ethically and appropriately. The aim of this review was to generate a summary of current national and international BCS and to identify key features of standards tha...
This article presents findings from research that explored how a community garden might function as a place of end-of-life and bereavement support. Adopting Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods, and informed by Third Place theory and notions of therapeutic landscape, creative consultations were held in the Garden and people's homes. The find...
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p177
The Tracker and Red Hill are cinematic re-interpretations of Australia’s colonial past, which they characterise by a sense of postcolonial longing and an expectation of intimacy. Both films are portals through which arguments about historical truth, subjective memory and contemporary realities are...
In a pilot project, members of a community garden explored how they might provide better end-of-life support for their regional community. As part of the project, a literature review was undertaken to investigate the nexus between community gardens and end-of-life experiences (including grief and bereavement) in academic research. This article docu...
In two Australian coming-of-age feature films, Australian Rules and September, the central young characters hold idyllic notions about friendship and equality that prove to be the keys to transformative on-screen behaviours. Intimate intersubjectivity, deployed in the close relationships between the indigenous and nonindigenous protagonists, genera...
This article reads Richard J. Frankland's Stone Bros. (2009) as a critique of romanticized notions of primitive Aboriginal spirituality. Through the unlikely arena of popular cinema, this irreverent stoner comedy draws viewer attention to the persistence of notions of repressive authenticity, with particular reference to elements of Aboriginal spir...
Projects
Projects (2)
This project aims to understand the therapeutic capacity of community gardens. Our objective is to balance risk and support in an outdoor setting, to enable meaningful participation for all community members.
The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify, from the perspectives of key rural health service stakeholders and Faculty of Health placement coordinators, the factors that constrain and enable the use of rural health services for clinical placements. The findings will inform decision-making and enable rural health academics in the University Centre for Rural Health to work with rural agencies to strengthen their capacity to support students undertaking placement.
